The big secret of the evacuation is that large numbers of Afghans were brought in under "humanitarian parole", a legal status that obviates all the bureaucratic bottlenecks imposed by the State Department as an excuse to keep Afghans off planes.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/afghan-evacuees-resettlement-us/2021/09/01/c68b6a42-0b4e-11ec-a256-709238a1404d_story.html …
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The next big test for the Biden Administration will be how to quietly deport those Afghans who made it into the country, and prevent the thousands at offshore US bases from penetrating any further, while crying crocodile tears for all the visa holders who got left in Afghanistan
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Note that the number of Afghans brought into the country already dwarfs the record low number of refugees the United States admitted this year, under a policy even more restrictive than Trump's. Biden will move heaven and earth to settle them outside our borders.
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This administration consistently lied about its inability to simply bring people over and sort out the paperwork here. The humanitarian parole status was always available (even Trump used it); instead Biden lied in July that bringing at risk Afghans to the US would break the law
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Both parties in Congress today voted to increase the US military budget over the already astronomical figure requested by Biden. But next we're likely to hear how the richest country in the world can't afford to resettle refugees from the wars that military budget pays for.
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