News ‘They’re really sitting ducks’: Refugee advocates inundated with pleas for help from vulnerable Afghans August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY Comments Off on ‘They’re really sitting ducks’: Refugee advocates inundated with pleas for help from vulnerable Afghans With the Taliban in power, Afghan women, journalists and others have flooded U.S.-based refugee groups with desperate messages seeking a way out.