Posted on 09/04/2021 7:33:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) - At least 50,000 Afghans are expected to be admitted into the United States following the fall of Kabul as part of an "enduring commitment" to help people who aided the American war effort and others who are particularly vulnerable under Taliban rule, the secretary of homeland security said Friday.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have already made it through security vetting and arrived in the U.S. to begin the process of resettlement. Exactly how many more will come and how long it will take remain open questions, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said as he outlined the effort.
"Our commitment is an enduring one," he told reporters. "This is not just a matter of the next several weeks. We will not rest until we have accomplished the ultimate goal."
Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials are providing the most detailed look to date at what began as a frantic and chaotic effort to evacuate U.S. citizens, permanent residents and Afghans before the Aug. 30 withdrawal of American troops and the end of the country's longest war.
Jack Markell, former governor of Delaware, will serve as coordinator of what the White House is calling "Operation Allies Welcome." He will work alongside the National Security Council, Domestic Policy Council, DHS, and other federal agencies "to ensure vulnerable Afghans who pass screening and vetting reviews are safely and efficiently resettled here in the United States," said Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House principal deputy press secretary. The appointment is expected to run through the end of the year.
Nearly 130,000 were airlifted out of Afghanistan in one of the largest mass evacuations in U.S. history. Many of those people are still in transit, undergoing security vetting and screening in other countries, including Germany, Spain, Kuwait and Qatar.
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50,000 Afghans helped us? How?
Put them up in Lower, Slower Delaware.
Every one of them a security risk and a drain on the country.
The ones that helped the USA have already been executed by the Taliban.
Don’t punish downstate because Greenville’s Senile Joe let them in. put them in Hockesssin.
Exactly.
BiXiden used to have a place near the Del. southern border with eastern shore Md.
Notice none of the other Muslim nations seem to want them either.
Unvetted No Ids Infected Afghan pedophile savages that will Gang Rape Rob and riot thru out purple and red states thanks the Dem ops at Catholic charities and Lutheran services who will sneak these welfare illerate low I Q
savages in our neighborhoods .
Scream bloody murder to your Gov and local reps.
Stop the CC and Lutheran invasion to red America .
And their child brides. Because, multiculturalism.
Nope, gotta dissent from popular opinion on that one. I work with 110 small business owners in virginia. Off the top of my head, 40 of those are afghan/Pashtun. They are hard working and intelligent. The vast, vast majority have good credit, loan them money and it comes back. Look up the crime statistics for Afghans in the US. I haven’t, but I bet they are next to nothing.
As for the radical Islamist terrorist? They will come here with or without the airlift from Kabul. Thanks to that guy that got 81,000,000 votes, the Taliban has or will have the resources to
place who the want here through our southern border. After that everyone with a tan and who speaks Spanish can come in. We were far more secure in our border pre 9/11 than we are now.
50k evacuated? And we still left American citizens there?
“For parasites”.
Riiiiight.
How will we ever handle such a YUGE influx of fereners? 😕 🔥🐂💩
I expect a whole lot more than that.
Invest in rubber stamps.
50,000 Afghans helped us? How?
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According to the morning cable news, most of those that actually helped the military and State Dept are still in Afghan. Of this 130k, 70% are just random people that rushed the airport. Those people are being spun as visa holders, the vulnerable (what ever that means), and others with (dubious) legal paperwork.
These ‘translators’ need translators ...
The Tallies are still going door to door looking for blue passports this morning according to reports on tv.
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