Whom the Hell Did We Actually Evacuate From Afghanistan? Majority of Interpreters, Other U.S. Visa Applicants Were Left Behind

Whom the Hell Did We Actually Evacuate From Afghanistan?

The Biden regime keeps touting sheer raw numbers to boast about its evacuation success. Aside from leaving Americans behind, it’s unclear whom it did evacuate.

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? —>READ MORE HERE

WSJ: Majority of Interpreters, Other U.S. Visa Applicants Were Left Behind in Afghanistan

U.S. still doesn’t have reliable data on who was evacuated from Afghanistan, a senior State Department official says

The U.S. estimates it 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 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 and board flights out.

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, but initial assessments suggested most visa applicants didn’t make it through the crush at the airport.

“I would say it’s the majority of them,” the official estimated. “Just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.”

The Special Immigrant Visa program set up in 2009 aimed to help those at risk of Taliban reprisal for helping the U.S., including interpreters for the U.S. military and diplomatic and foreign aid workers.

The Biden administration has been under intense pressure by lawmakers, veterans and other advocates to do more to help the more than 20,000 Afghans who had already applied for visas when the U.S. decided to withdraw. Including their family members, as many as 100,000 Afghans may be eligible for relocation. ––>READ MORE HERE

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