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"A life-saving process": New visas will help rescue Afghans who put their lives on the line for US troops
Washington Examiner ^
| 12/12/19
| Russ Read
Posted on 12/12/2019 2:05:13 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
After months of deliberation, Congress on Wednesday agreed to a defense bill that allows thousands of Afghans who worked with the American military to immigrate to the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; islam; refugees
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To: JPJones
Most of these people are translators risking their lives working with coalition forces. As such they are targets all day long.
Now they should be left to their fate?
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posted on
12/12/2019 3:29:49 PM PST
by
zek157
To: Veto!
"They he turned around with a frown on his face to a sad-looking woman in a burka, and told her which loaf of bread to buy. His wife — waiting for directions like some kind of servant."
That's the first reason I don't like Islam. I have admired women all my life and have never treated a woman with nothing but respect. No, I didn't get it from Aretha Franklin...ha.
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posted on
12/12/2019 4:35:50 PM PST
by
A Navy Vet
(I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
To: zek157
“Now they should be left to their fate?”
Yes.
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posted on
12/12/2019 4:41:50 PM PST
by
JPJones
(More Tariffs, less income tax.)
To: A Navy Vet
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posted on
12/12/2019 5:07:02 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Pining_4_TX
They’d be of better use trying to get their own country in order.
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posted on
12/13/2019 6:39:48 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
To: Pining_4_TX
If they won’t reject Islam, do not bring them here.
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posted on
12/13/2019 10:16:53 AM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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