More Senate Republicans are getting behind a plan that would give green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration amid allegations of widespread vetting failures.
The effort to include the plan in a year-end funding bill comes as the National Defense Authorization Act , recently passed this month, allows federal agencies to further investigate whether the Biden administration resettled unvetted Afghans across the U.S.In September, the DHS Inspector General
report detailing how Biden brought Afghans to the U.S. who were “not fully vetted” and may “pose a risk to national security.”that Biden’s agencies failed to properly vet Afghans arriving in the U.S., and that about 50 Afghans were flagged for “significant security concerns” after their resettlement.
Most of the unvetted Afghans flagged for possible terrorism ties, the DOD Inspector General report states, have since disappeared into American communities. The report noted that as of September 17, 2021, only three of 31 Afghans flagged with specific “derogatory information” could be located.In August, Sens. Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson
from a whistleblower who claims that the Biden administration knowingly resettled almost 400 Afghans in the U.S. who were listed as “potential threats” in federal databases and urged staff to cut corners in the vetting process.that the Biden administration resettled Afghans listed on the federal government’s “Terrorism Watch List” in communities across America.
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