WH plans to move Afghans who worked for US to safe location

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BREAKING: Biden administration planning to move interpreters and other Afghans who have worked for the U.S. and their families to a safe location amid growing fears of a Taliban takeover after U.S. military withdrawal, U.S. official confirms to @ABC News.


8:03 AM · Jun 24, 2021

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The Biden administration is planning to move interpreters and other Afghans who have worked for the U.S., along with their families, to a safe location amid growing fears of a Taliban takeover after the U.S. military withdrawal, a U.S. official and a senior U.S. administration official confirmed to ABC News Thursday.

The destination is not yet clear, nor is the scale of the project. But the plan is to move a group of these Afghans to a safe location as they wait for their U.S. visa applications to be processed, the officials said.

The plans should be underway "in a few days -- at the most, a week," according to the U.S. official, but the U.S. is not yet executing it.

There are approximately 18,000 Afghans who have applied for a Special Immigrant Visa -- an enormous backlog that will take months to sort through, with U.S. lawmakers and advocates saying it puts their lives at risk.

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1. Saigon is lovely in April. n/t

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2. K & R!

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3. While the half of the country that is female can look forward to horrendous treatment.