The U.S. left behind the majority of Afghan interpreters and others who applied for visas to flee Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday, despite frantic efforts to evacuate those at risk of Taliban retribution in the final weeks of the airlift.
Over 20,000 Afghans who had applied for the Special Immigrant Visa program remained in Afghanistan when Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, according to advocacy groups and congressional officials.
Including their family members, as many as 100,000 Afghans may be eligible for relocation.
According to Biden, we evacuated over 100,000 from Afghanistan.
If those people are not the visa recipients, whom did we evacuate?
In the early days of the evacuation effort, thousands of Afghans crowded Kabul’s airport seeking a way to flee the country. Some made it through without paperwork, while American citizens and visa applicants were unable to enter.
That’s a hell of a success story.
The U.S. still doesn’t have reliable data on who was evacuated, nor for what type of visas they may qualify, the official said
The basic questions to be asked are what criteria were actually used to allow people to board planes?
Some Americans were kept out. So were a bunch of people with green cards. And apparently most SIV holders. So who the hell was allowed to board those planes and why?
somehistory says
Old noodle brain said that 50,000 will be “resettled” in the U.S. after they are “vetted.” They are being “vetted” in other countries, such as Germany.
However, 40,000 have already arrived and are at various military bases…in Texas, VA, and some other states.
No word on what happens to those being “vetted” while in the other countries if they don’t pass muster. And the question comes up: When and how and by whom were the 40,000 who have arrived, “vetted”?
Each base will have a “mayor” because these are going to be little “cities” of afghan mozlums.
Question one was most likely, “Will you vote democrate if we allow you to remain?”
Vicky says
I think they will be resettled in swing districts. Everything is politically motivated. Think redistricting and mid-term vision aka five years down the road.
LB says
No, not swing states (maybe some), most Afghans are settled in exclusively RED states like VA, TX, ID, etc. Not a single Afghan is put in NY, CA and other blue states. What does that tell you?
Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner says
I actually thought that people in Canada and the US would flood into the streets demonstrating against leaving Afghanistan this way and esp. against leaving the Americans, the Afghan supporters AND without helping the Resistance!
I am still hoping this will happen. Watching from Canada where it seems we acted in a similar treasonous manner – I have tried to contact organizations and leaders and Veterans to see if they will organize public displays and also if there is a way to send aid to the reistance. As a volunteer for the Yezidi ,this Jihad is trying to exterminate them and there are thousands who remain enslaved. This non-Muslim oppressed great People are our allies who we are also abandoning G-d forbid and whose girls are abused without much opposition from western female human rights groups.
gravenimage says
Damn good questin, Somehistory.
swamp chicken says
Who are they? Why, Obama’s Fifth Column. Their names were given to the Tollybahn to let them through the checkpoints. Probably because of the critical shortage of cabbies in Jersey City.
Wellington says
Biden is actually a monstrosity, though not in clearly understood ways. He is a fool first and foremost, a liar as well, also that curse in many polities, i.e., the professional politician.
The man is, at best, a mediocrity. Now he is a mediocrity with dementia. As President, he is a total failure so far and there is no reason to think matters will get better with him “at the helm.”
I would also add here that Biden’s family as a whole is despicable, whether it be his wife, his dirt-bag son, Hunter, his predatory and avaricious brother, et al. Yes, Biden is worthy of contempt, surely, but so is so much of his family.
America is drifting right now, as the West in general is. The Bidens of the world function as a major reason why.
Suzanne Vaughan says
It occurs they might be drugging Biden? He appeared to be falling asleep in the chair during his meeting with Israeli PM Naftali Bennett at the Whitehouse, which is serious in the current ME situation. Whatever Biden’s mental health issues are, why are the Democrats not taking this seriously? Why would the Democrats not be worried for America? He’s handed over Afghanistan to the Taliban and risked the lives of Americans trapped out there. Another three years of this insane Democrat Kabal will be enough to finish America??. Bring back Trump!
Isabella van der westhuizen says
This was a disaster for America and the free world and Biden is to blame.
Not sure how it can be seen any other way
Walter Sieruk says
This is a very serious problem for the security and safety of all American citizens who are now living in their Homeland USA.
For among those refugees from Afghanistan there be a number of jihadist “sleepers” just waiting and scheming for the right time and place in an American citiy to carry out mass -murder and destruction of Islam’s violent and deadly jihad.
The most we ,as typical Americans can do is not to live in fear and be afraid to go to different places in do different things in the country but still if something seem or looks wrong then go an inform the police about it .
As it had been said “If you see something , say something.” To put it in another way , the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson does apply now even more than it did in his own time.
For Mr. Jefferson had written “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
Shirley Ann says
It appears the DEM GOV & DEM MILITARY pulled a fast one on the American People. The Muslims, inside the Planes, Had been prepared by “SOME ONE” in Afghanistan, to be placed aboard these planes, INSTEAD OF AMERICANS.
One Commercial Air service arrived, with orders to transport Americans, but instead, was gifted by Muslims, NO AMERICANS IN SIGHT.
What a way to move the Enemy into America, without the US CITIZENS bring ALARMED. Who could deny a “Poor little Muslim refugee, fleeing from his own REGIME”?
gravenimage says
The Afghans US evacuated are not Special Immigrant Visa applicants. Who are they?
In the early days of the evacuation effort, thousands of Afghans crowded Kabul’s airport seeking a way to flee the country. Some made it through without paperwork, while American citizens and visa applicants were unable to enter.
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Oh, great–and we’ve already heard that none of them will be returned to Afghanistan. How many Jihadists are among them?
Keys says
Some analysts think that the incredible number of actions the Biden Administration has taken that have hurt the USA can not possibly be based on foolishness and incompetence. Rather these actions are purposely designed to weaken the country.
Biden is not making these decisions. He is the teleprompter reader and does or does not do whatever “they” tell him. Who are “they” ? The Administration is full of Obama “people”. And how many times has Obama himself been in Washington ? Obama people are puppeteering Joe Biden – what has happened in Afghanistan was likely intended to happen.
Think about how many mistakes were made in the withdrawal – but the kicker for me was the pallets, yes pallets, of shrink wrapped $100 dollars bills left behind now in Taliban hands ! Where have we heard of “pallets of cash” before ? No one would leave that much cash behind in an evacuation unless it was intended to be left behind !
The Taliban knew the evacuation was going to happen from Kabul and not Bagram for weeks in advance. They know Kabal airport well. Why wouldn’t they plan to have hundreds of their jihadis in the initial crowds to infiltrate America and the West. Did the Administration know ? “Plausible deniability” ?
Hell, the Administration knows human traffickers, drugs, criminals, gang members, etc. are flowing through the Southern border ! They know and have the power to stop it, yet they do not. Conclusion: they want this happening.
So why would it surprise anyone that they want jihadis coming in as well. Their plan is to “take America down”, to fundamentally change America, to teach our children that America is not exceptional, but rather responsible for most of the wrong in the world, to teach our children that they are racists, and on and on !
Why would it surprise anyone that this Administration purposely are turning a blind eye to jihadis entering the USA ?
Keys says
Last sentence should be:
Why would it surprise anyone that this Administration is purposely turning a blind eye to jihadis entering the USA ?
James Lincoln says
Keys,
Since Biden was fraudulently inaugurated on January 20, 2021 I have thought the very same thing.
What has happened to the United States since that date was either:
1. Due to profound incompetence.
2. By design.
If I were a betting man, I would say that Biden’s “handlers” are attempting to destroy the United States of America by design – and re-create it in “their” own image.
Keys says
Thanks for your comment James.
Anarchy, if necessary, can assist them to “re-create it in “their own” image”.
And Anarchy, as you know, is an Alinsky-Communist tool to gain complete control. Who has been schooled in, and admires, Alinsky tactics ? Obama, O’s Deep State, Al Sharpton (Over 50 visits to the Obama White House), BLM, Antifa, Hillary, a bunch of the Democrat Party elected leadership, and all their trainees.
The vetting of the military is being done to control said military in order to control any anarchy counter to their agenda. That is why the almost totally phantom “white supremacy” is the “greatest danger to the United States”, and so forth.
Walter Sieruk says
In the future ,and maybe in the n not too distant , when some of those unveted Afghan “refugees ” turn out to actually be Muslims who are violent and dangerous jihadists and commit mass murder and destruction in an American city of even large towns, for in only takes a few out many to do horrendous murderous harm , that incompetent ,stupid or worse yet wicked and insidiously subversive villain ,Joe Biden, will have the blood of many innocent people on his evil hands.
tgusa says
Here we go again. Military operations in foreign lands tracking third world mud back in to America. The military has been harnessed in an effort to destroy American culture, values, and yes, the country itself. We need to scale back military funding as that funding has turned the military in to the tip of the spear in the destruction of America. I’m older so most likely I wont be around when in the future many veterans may have a Bridge on the River Kwai Colonel Nicholson moment. My God, what have I done?
Ike warned us about the military industrial complex but so many decades later we can add one more name to that list, the military industrial government complex. A foreign enemy really couldn’t do what that complex is doing. To quote George Bush, “We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.” Their will be a reckoning for these people that will be conducted by future generations of Americans. I wouldn’t want to be part of their bloodline when that occurs.
An old saying applies to them, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
Eleanor says
As a safeguard, do not give any of them American citizenship for at least 10-15 years, until they have proved themselves worthy. Oh, and when you do, do not make it dual Afghani-American citizenship. American, or nothing!
gravenimage says
Muslims can do a lot of damage here in 15 years…
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is an idiot “president” with dangerous and maybe even deadly polices.
Ugly Sid says
They fail the Civilization of the Enlightenment test.
They fail the Golden Rule test.
Whether or not they stay here, or even tentatively enter, should not even arise.
roberta says
Who are they? The future.
Giacomo Latta says
So, 100,000 Afghans are free to enter the US due to their jobs as interpreters for US forces in Afghanistan. I didn’t know US forces personnel were so talkative.
OLD GUY says
Most of them will support islam through silent jihad, some with finical help, some with their doctrine of violence, rape and murder of non-believers in islam. You can count on it.