Their fate is likely to be grim once the Taliban takes over, and you can bet these invading barbarians, who have engaged in public hangings elsewhere in recent days as they've taken over, would like to make an example of some or all of them.
According to the Wall Street Journal, getting a visa to the U.S., even in these conditions, is a 14-step process. . . .
. . . "Fourteen steps? For people they presumably already know and have already worked with? Translators, spies, interpreters, other people who've taken risks for us? The time is short, the monsters are circling, and like everyone else, the visa applicants probably believed the U.S. intelligece assessments that Kabul would fall in 90 days, not 72 hours (or less). The people who need to get out number by one report 80,000 people if families are included, and according to this report from Politico, there had been no U.S. planning for them, despite having several months to do it from the date that Biden announced the pullout." . . .
The bigger irony, though, is that as these bona fide refugees are gummed up in visa paperwork, the southern border is seeing a surge of people with no serious asylum cases into the country, no questions asked. Some 50,000 of them have been let in without a court date, a paperwork nicety most ignore anyway. Others have been admitted with full-blown COVID, despite Title 42, which would normally force them back. None of them have ever done a thing for us, but they're being let in without visas, without any paperwork, without even court dates, because they serve as useful political tools for Democrats.
Afghans at a visa processing office in kabul just now. One man, overwhelmed, trying to help Afghans fill out US state dept forms (in english). Desperation. Many people came up to me crying, saying the need to leave, fear for their lives as Taliban closes in on Kabul. pic.twitter.com/zDodmUsBvl
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
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