Posted on 09/16/2021 5:39:10 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Biden administration notified governors and mayors on Wednesday of the number of Afghan evacuees their state is expected to receive in the coming weeks, two senior administration officials told Axios.
Why it matters: Although their exact immigration pathway is still unclear, an initial group of 37,000 Afghans will soon be headed to states across the country after many faced harrowing journeys from Afghanistan.
Former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell (D), who President Biden appointed on Friday to oversee Afghan resettlement, made calls to state and local leaders notifying them on the number of Afghans to expect.
In conversations with nearly every state on Wednesday, not one official declined to take in Afghans, one senior administration official told Axios. "I have to say it was a very warm conversation with with state and local leaders."
By the numbers: California is projected to receive the largest number of Afghans at 5,255. Next is Texas, at 4,481, according to State Department data obtained by Axios.
Hawaii, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming are the only states not slated to receive anyone from the first group of evacuees, along with Washington, D.C.
AP first reported on the numbers.
The big picture: The 37,000 is just the first group of Afghans who will be making new homes in American communities. Because they are not coming through the usual refugee process, caring for this population has come with numerous legal and logistical hurdles for groups in charge of their resettlement.
Even the housing crunch has had an impact. The administration has been assured by refugee resettlement agencies that the evacuees in the initial group have places to live, an official said.
The administration is also looking at launching new resettlement sites in places that have more affordable housing and job opportunities.
Of note: The group of refugees includes some Afghans who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan and applied for the Special Immigrant Visa, but officials declined to provide the exact numbers.
More than half of Afghans who have been brought to the states helped the U.S. government or are related to someone who did — that includes both SIV applicants and those who did not apply to the program, an official said.
Thousands of others who do not have U.S. citizenship, green cards or Special Immigrant Visas will remain in shelters on military bases across the country, for now.
More evacuees are waiting in third countries. Flights from these countries to the U.S. have been suspended due to a handful of measles cases among recently-arrived Afghans, senior officials told reporters on Tuesday.
What to watch: The Biden administration is depending on Congress to unlock additional resources for Afghans brought to the U.S. on "parole." The proposed legislation would also provide them an expedited path to a green card.
One senior administration official noted there has been strong bipartisan support for caring for Afghans, especially those who aided the U.S. While legislation is the priority, the administration has also explored potential back-up plans — including ways to expedite the asylum process for Afghans, the official confirmed.
Nah, it’s been destroyed a long time ago. The plan is coming to fruition. President Trump did what he could. Our overlords/deep state would not be denied. Chaos, debauchery and confusion wins.
Michigan is getting more than our fair share. 😡 Dearborn Istanbul will need to expand.
I don’t see a number in Connecticut.
Who gets the ones with child brides? Well???
the large and growing incidence of sexual assaults committed by refugees against local women. These were not of the cultural-misunderstanding-date-rape sort, but were vicious, no-preamble attacks on random girls and women, often committed by gangs or packs of young men....Most of the assaults were being committed by refugees of one particular nationality: by Afghans.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/2021/07/16/austrias-afghan-refugee-problem-will-it-be-our-problem-soon/
The states need to put them all on buses and send them to DC or Pelosi’s district.
This is sooo not surprising in the least. You bring these barbarian cave men into where women are hidden away or covered up to the Western world where woman do just the opposite....(any beach shows how naked they are) .....and these guys have no control over their impulses. Most are illiterate and no education on sexual matters....
I recall a Military nurse speaking about trying to explain to Aphgan men sexual relations between men and woman.....she said it was impossible for them to understand.
Dems will SAY things are bipartisan when they aren’t in the least.
I could find that many AMERICANS in Philadelphia alone who could use that help. I am no bleeding heart but if Fedgov is going throw welfare, it should go to Americans and not the world.
Wyoming, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Hawaii.
>>By the numbers: California is projected to receive the largest number of Afghans at 5,255.<<
That’s the BEST news about this. They’ll fit right in. Too bad ALL the refugees can’t end up there.
I read a report recently from the U.S. military - as to how much they were frustrated when trying to teach the Afghani army how to defend their own country and fight against the Taliban.
The U.S. officers said most of the Afghani officers were illiterate, uneducated and had no idea how to implement strategy, let alone fight back against the Taliban, no matter how much the army tried to teach them.
IOW, it was a completely lost cause.
And now, unfortunately, they are here.
Let’s give them all the liberal politician home addresses we have and let these refugee’s knock on their doors for shelter. That’d be a great start...
Every state should ship them to D.C. OH WAIT they get fed money the system is still in action.
Voting machines to be shipped to states soon.
The AFGHAN’S have places to live & the AMERICAN homeless do not???????
“Mapped: Afghan refugees headed to 46 states”
But... but... but... I thought there were 57 states. I’m so confused.
Tribal savages....not anything else.
Yeah, if people actually listened to what Obama was saying, they would have never voted for him. The most telling statement was “In five days we will fundamentally change this nation. Kinda like Chuck Schumer aka Chuck Tumor saying “If we win Georgia we change the world” ... what did you say .... If we win Georgia we change the country”.
The no-testosterone Biden defended his dedicated Afghan evacuations of more than 79,000 Allah worshippers......one of the largest airlifts ever conducted..........
We watched hundreds of male-only jihadis ran alongside a US military plane.......and the pic of hundreds being flown to safety.
How did they know where and when to board?
Why were no Americans given the same information.......left behind at the mercy of the Savage Taliban?
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