On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said there are “probably close to 10-20,000 SIV applicants and recipients” that are still in Afghanistan. Gallego said that while people in Afghanistan need humanitarian aid, “we can’t trust
The Pentagon said Monday that about 5,400 Americans were evacuated from Afghanistan out of more than 122,000 evacuees, as it wraps up its evacuation mission by the end of the month.
Members of Congress said Saturday evening that the Biden administration was not allowing Americans into the Kabul airport.
Following the takeover of Afghanistan by Islamic terrorists the large population of Afghan refugees in California will increase even more.
As recriminations fly among Biden administration officials over who bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal, some are questioning the responsibility of Russ Travers, who was fired by the Trump administration as acting head of the National Counterterrorism Center and subsequently rehired by President Joe Biden to lead the interagency process on the evacuation operation.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday criticized President Biden’s handling of the Taliban’s takeover of the Afghan government, stating that the administration has failed to act with urgency and sufficiently address the humanitarian crisis both in Afghanistan and at the U.S. border.
The Pentagon announced Thursday it will deploy three infantry battalions, or roughly 3,000 troops, to assist with the reduction of American civilians at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the evacuation of Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants from the country.
The U.S. announced that it is broadening eligibility criteria to allow more Afghans and their families to qualify for U.S. refugee status.
Roughly 200 Afghan interpreters, who worked with the United States Armed Forces in the Afghanistan War, and their family members touched down in Virginia on Friday as part of a plan approved by Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
Key national security and anti-fraud safeguards may be wiped out in the rush to processing pending U.S. special visa applications from Afghans who aided America’s war effort, Dan Cadman, an immigration law enforcement expert at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
President Biden is considering granting 2,000 additional visas to vulnerable Afghan women who may be evacuated to wait out the process.
President Joe Biden said Afghans who aided America and their families may relocate to American facilities outside the continental U.S.
President Biden is racing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas for aiding the American war effort.
National Guard colonel and Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) warned the Biden administration that they will have “blood on their hands” if they do not evacuate Afghan interpreters who helped American troops from Afghanistan as the war winds down.
The Biden administration revealed Thursday it will evacuate thousands of Afghans who helped the departing U.S. military during the war to other countries until American entry visas for them and their families are processed.
The Biden team is expediting the Special Immigration Visa (SIV) approval process for thousands of Afghans who worked for U.S. government.
