From Reuters:
“About 100 U.S. citizens,
permanent residents still waiting to leave Afghanistan -official”
- The United States is aware of
about 100 American citizens and legal permanent residents (LPRs) who remain in
Afghanistan and are ready to leave the country, a senior State Department
official said on Monday. The State Department was working to get those people
on flights out of Afghanistan, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition
of anonymity. "Our highest priority in Afghanistan, of course, remains
helping those American citizens who wish to leave the country now to do
so," the official said. About 124,000 people were airlifted out of Kabul
after the U.S.-backed government there collapsed last month and the Taliban
took control. Since U.S. forces departed and handed over the airport on Aug.
31, 85 American citizens and 79 LPRs have left Afghanistan on sporadic flights,
according to the official. However, some American citizens did not want to
leave Afghanistan without family members who did not have the required travel
documents to enter the United States, the official said. The United States
would soon intensify efforts to help the immediate family members of American
citizens who did not have the needed documentation, the official said, but
would not do so for their “extended" families, which could include a large
number of people. “I entirely understand how painful that choice may be for
them, but for matters of law and policy, up to this point, we have not extended
support for expedited departure and resettlement in the U.S. for extended
family members of U.S. citizens,” the official said.
^ 27 days (and counting) since
the US Withdrew from Afghanistan and over a month (August 20, 2021) since Biden
said "We Will Get You Out!" and yet 100 American Citizens remain
abandoned by Biden and the US to the Taliban and ISIS.
This doesn't include the
thousands of Afghans who worked for us over the past 20 years.
You don't even hear about them or
about how the Taliban are already terrorizing them or the ordinary Afghans on
any media anymore.
Shame on all of us for abandoning
them the 1st time (on August 31st) and for continuing to do so now. ^
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.