The limiting factor in evacuating Afghans right now is our refusal to fly them to US territory and finish the paperwork there. This capricious administrative decision is costing lives and has no justification beyond American xenophobia.https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1428715951185334280 …
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No one in the State Department or administration has adequately explained why the bureaucratic fan dance of processing applications has to happen in horrific conditions outside Kabul airport. We can absorb any number of refugees, and vet them for as long as we want to on Guam.
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I think we all understand the real reason—Biden thinks it's unacceptable to give random Afghans access to US courts and a chance at a new life here. So our current Afghan policy is some mix of State Department caprice and soldiers deciding which baby to lift over the razor wire.
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Alternatively we have a limited number of planes and transporting people to places in the reigon, even with this delay, is quicker than flying them directly to the US? This process has been shit and Biden deserves plenty of blame but there's a million issues here
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The reporting is pretty uniform about planes not going out full, and the limiting factor being visa processing.
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