Email Shows Biden Ordered Afghanistan Evacuation Flights Be Filled With Unvetted Refugees
Afghans rush to planes after the disastrous American retreat / Reuters
Adam Kredo • October 26, 2021 5:10 pm
During America's chaotic exit from Afghanistan earlier this year, the Biden administration issued a directive that evacuation flights be filled to "excess" with refugees who had not been properly vetted before arriving in America, according to an internal administration communication disclosed on Tuesday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.).
"Total inflow to the U.S. must exceed the number of seats available. Err on the side of excess," reads an Aug. 16 email to U.S. officials involved in the exit from Afghanistan. "This guidance provides clear discretion and direction to fill seats and to provide special consideration for women and children when we have seats."
Hawley, who says he obtained the email through a U.S. official who was outraged by the Biden administration's failure to vet Afghan refugees flown into America, published the email Tuesday afternoon on Twitter. Hawley maintains that Afghan evacuees were not throughly screened with intensive interviews before they arrived in the United States.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/email-shows-biden-ordered-afghanistan-evacuation-flights-be-filled-with-unvetted-refugees/
