Biden administration will house 2,500
Afghan interpreters at Fort Lee in
Virginia when they start evacuations
following months of delays and an
increase in Taliban threats
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Elizabeth Elkind
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/19/2021 5:33:25 PM
The Biden administration is flying 2,500 Afghan interpreters to the US to be housed at Fort Lee in Virginia as US troops pull out and the Taliban continues to wreak havoc across the country. The small group includes people who have already begun applying for special immigrant visas will be temporarily housed at the military base outside of Richmond, Virginia.
'These are brave Afghans,' State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday, 'who have completed thorough SIV security vetting processes.'(Snip)This first group of 700 interpreters and their families is just a small number of the estimated 18,000 SIV applicants and 53,000 family members waiting to leave Afghanistan.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/19/2021 5:34:21 PM (No. 850707)
"Refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years, according to research, and each refugee costs taxpayers about $133,000 over the course of their lifetime. Within five years, an estimated 16 percent of all refugees admitted will need housing assistance paid for by taxpayers."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/04/taxpayer-funded-refugee-contractors-cheer-joe-biden-surging-refugee-resettlement-by-960/
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 7/19/2021 5:39:53 PM (No. 850709)
As far as I am concerned these interpreters should all be brought to the United States and receive help to resettle. Look at it this way, we don't have to wait 20 years for them to learn to speak English as we do with many, many Mexicans, Central and South Americans. They already speak English and most are educated. What's the downside? We promised them a new homeland when we recruited them. "A promise made is a debt unpaid."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pros7767 7/19/2021 5:51:40 PM (No. 850713)
Completely agree #2.
I have no problem having my tax dollars go to help those who helped our servicemen. I do have a problem supporting those who invade our border!
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Completely agree #2.
However, do you reasonably think that the Taliban will let these folks live free and unfettered lives? I'm pretty sure the Taliban has cells here already meaning that quite a number of the new residences will be "Arkisided"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
harleynyc 7/19/2021 6:16:56 PM (No. 850728)
every other a jihad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/19/2021 6:18:10 PM (No. 850730)
by the time the mb administration gets to this debt of honor .. The “collateral damaged translator “ will be housed in a wooden box .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/19/2021 6:48:07 PM (No. 850753)
There was a potential benefit to the translators in having their homeland freed, except that the Afghanis themselves were quite happy to drop their arms and welcome in the Taliban; some gratitude. USA wasted $2.26 trillion in this failed effort that stood only to benefit Afghanistan, the same way our two forays in Iraq benefitted only the Iraqis (and first and foremost, our arms industry), which to me is more than enough debt repaid to the translators. Why not relocate them to a nearby land that's culturally compatible, where perhaps they can help instill our wonderful Western values of freedom, and maybe even spread those values back to Afghanistan?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 7/19/2021 6:55:52 PM (No. 850761)
Fort LEE!!!???
White supremacist racism is alive and well in the US State Department
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/19/2021 7:12:34 PM (No. 850782)
Question: Do any of those ''Afghan interpreters'' habla any espanol?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/19/2021 7:16:14 PM (No. 850785)
Sooo...ANOTHER Internment camp? He already has opened half a dozen for "refugees" from south of here. These all have fulltime "Military" guards...not like Trumps "Kids in cages" holding centers run by the former director of La Raza, granted a no-bid contract to built, open and operate by Obama..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2021 8:23:17 PM (No. 850826)
More 7th century barbarians. Regardless of what they may have done, their religion still tells them to enslave or kill all Christians and unbelievers. And even if these folks don't act on that, experience shows that at least some of their children are likely to act on their religious "duties".
Settle them in a Muslim country, not here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LonestarM3 7/19/2021 8:56:53 PM (No. 850850)
Well, I doubt that it is the beginning of a change of heart, but at least now the Biden Administration has done, or appears to be going to do, something that is not completely stupid. [Lets not tell them that Trump would have done the same, or they might send the Afghan interpreters back....]
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/19/2021 9:43:51 PM (No. 850902)
It’s Vietnam all over again! While most of those interpreters are probably legitimate and put their lives at risk to help the US military there are bound to be some undetected Tailban agents among them, and especially among the large numbers of Afghan family members who will be allowed in the USA at taxpayer’s expense to join up with the interpreters as time goes by. The difference between all the Vietnamese refugees allowed into the USA at the end of the Vietnam War, and these Afghans is the very historic and prevalent Islamist religious aspects of their culture.
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Agree, #11. We don't need them here. Islam is incompatible with the west, and that's the long and the short of it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/19/2021 11:56:35 PM (No. 850963)
Sounds like an excellent way to sneak some Taliban, Al Quada, or ISIS types into our country. With the left running things what is planned and what is actually done will be two different things.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/20/2021 7:21:34 AM (No. 851112)
Another Biden clustercluck. How many of those 2,500 Afghans are Taliban?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 7/20/2021 7:51:43 AM (No. 851144)
Excellent points are being made here but does anyone else think 2,500 is a very large number of “interpreters”?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 7/20/2021 8:25:11 AM (No. 851172)
We should have gone in, wiped out the terrorist cells and left. The British and Russian history was not enough to get a clue? Now the Taliban are welcoming the Chinese Army that is holding Uyghur and all muslims that retain their faith either in work concentration camps or extermination camps. If the PLA is ruthless as I believe they are they may be able to massacre themselves into the power broker of the tribes. Time will tell.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 7/20/2021 9:21:43 AM (No. 851237)
Don't worry, the xiden regime will screw this up just like everything else.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/20/2021 9:32:50 AM (No. 851248)
The Delaware Dummy Biden should have them enter the United States by crossing the southern Texas border at night to make them legal.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/20/2021 9:58:38 AM (No. 851267)
Immigrants who lived under oppression and tyranny are a better lot... than illegal aliens that broke the law to enter America illegally... so I have no problem with them... as to their being vetted by biden/obama's SIV security... not so sure... I'm sure a few terrorists are in the bunch and will try for another twin tower day...
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