Posted on 08/13/2021 12:56:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate attempt to secure deals to temporarily house at-risk Afghans who worked for the U.S. government, four U.S. officials told Reuters.
The previously unreported discussions with such countries as Kosovo and Albania underscore the administration's desire to protect U.S.-affiliated Afghans from Taliban reprisals while safely completing the process of approving their U.S. visas.
With the Taliban tightening their grip on Afghanistan at a shockingly swift pace, the United States on Thursday announced it would send 1,000 personnel to Qatar to accelerate the processing of applications for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV).
Afghans who served as interpreters for the U.S. government and in other jobs are entitled to apply for the SIV program.
So far, about 1,200 Afghans have been evacuated to the United States and that number is set to rise to 3,500 in the coming weeks under "Operation Allies Refuge," with some going to a U.S. military base in Virginia to finalize their paperwork and others directly to U.S. hosts.
Fearful the Taliban's advances are raising the threat to SIV applicants still awaiting processing, Washington is seeking third countries to host them until their paperwork is done and they can fly to the United States.
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UK Defense Minister blames Trump. No joke.
As a work associate of my wife’s on loan from Austria once said, “The US should take the world’s refugees and migrants, because you have so much land!”
Absolutely astonishing. The Biden communists have no problem letting 1 million to 2 million illegals in over the southern border, most who get released with a promise to appear at a later date, and we can’t let in 3,500 loyal Afghanis who put their lives on the line for us for decades? They have to go to a temporary third country for processing? But the illegals, who Trump held in Mexico for processing, now just waltz into the USA.
I hate Biden more every passing day.
Send them to Martha’s Vineyard, Washington DC, Hollywood and Chicago.
Looks like we will have to take million of Afghan refuges. Kind of like the Hmongs, Somalies etc.
The vast majority of American embassy employees left back in April. Xiden is sending our troops in harms way to evac muslims so the can ruin America. I can only think that is way more important for my grandson to have a father than have muslims move to America. (My SIL was deployed last night.)
Biden is afraid they’ll vote Republican. Otherwise he would bring them here.
Biden’s trying to pay them off... bribery is big among liberals...Want some foreign aid and a little kickback for your son and all your family members? Biden’s foreign aid is here...
May God watch over your sil.
What’s wrong with Delaware and Layette Park?
What’s wrong with Delaware and Lafayette Park?
IF they worked for us, he wants to send them to Kosovo. If they were Taliban, they’d be ushered right in. Invitation to the White House.
LOL. The sidewalk in front of Sidwell Friends school works, too.
HEY, I have an idea. I keep hearing a lot about “our good Saudi allies”, and UAE. They would fit right into the culture already even.
They ARE our allies? Right?
100%. It'll work too. After generations of being steeped in the most backward culture the world has to offer, they'll bring it to the U.S.
There is no possible happy ending here.
LOL. I was thinking the same thing.
You don't think Afghan tribesmen will find a welcoming home in today's Democratic Party that is all about BLM, wokeism, and tranny rights?
Martha’s Vineyard, Chappaqua and wherever W lives too.
Both those countries will take them, and then put them to work in the construction industry as manual laborers for slave wages.
“I hate Biden more every passing day.”
Biden is just the symptom... I hate liberals and Biden voters more every day.
No matter how bad it gets, the retards that voted for Biden will never admit it was a mistake. That makes them a threat.
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