The Biden administration plans to allow thousands more Afghans to relocate to the U.S. as refugees because of the growing threat of Taliban violence, the State Department said Monday.
The administration said it will launch a program that would permit thousands of Afghans to resettle to American soil, including those who worked for U.S.-funded projects, U.S.-based media outlets and nongovernmental organizations.
But the program will not offer evacuation flights for these Afghan refugees, who would have to find a way to leave the country on their own, officials said.
“The U.S. objective remains a peaceful, secure Afghanistan. However, in light of increased levels of Taliban violence, the U.S. government is working to provide certain Afghans, including those who worked with the United States, the opportunity for refugee resettlement to the United States,” the State Department said in a statement.
With the Taliban advancing across the country as U.S. troops withdraw, lawmakers and refugee rights organizations had appealed to the White House to take urgent action to protect Afghans — particularly Afghan women — who face potential retribution from the Taliban because of their association with the U.S. They proposed granting refugee status to a larger group of people and not just those who worked for the U.S. government for a two-year period, as the current visa program requires.
This should have been part of the initial exit strategy. The Taliban will hunt down all of those who aided us in Afghanistan and eliminate them, just as the NVA did after our hurried departure from Saigon in 1975.
Joe, they are already here! In Virginia.
They are everywhere. That dumb a$$ Biden needs to go ASAP!
AMERICA is FULL > Taking NO More from ANYWHERE !!!!