Citing Taliban violence, U.S.
expands Afghan refugee program
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/2/2021 10:20:20 AM
Washington—The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month. The State Department said it is widening the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in the United States to include current and former employees of U.S.-based news organizations, U.S.-based aid and development agencies and other relief groups that receive U.S. funding. Current and former employees of the U.S. government and the NATO military operation who don’t meet the criteria for a dedicated program for such workers are also covered.
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The us State Department, whose mission is to destroy the usa through radical demographic change and economic collapse, aims to import “many thousands” of Afghans and their immediate families. One could argue that the entire population of Afghanistan is at risk because they live among their fellow Afghanis, and thus we should import them all.