Democrats Beg Biden: Open U.S. Borders to Potentially Half a Million AfghansJohn Binder
21 Dec 2021
House and Senate Democrats are pleading with President Joe Biden to open the borders of the United States to more Afghans — potentially half a million.
In mid-August, as a result of his withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces out of Afghanistan, Biden started the most expansive resettlement operation in American history. Since then, more than 74,500 Afghans have been brought to the U.S. for resettlement across 46 states.
Most of the Afghans brought in by Biden are arriving on “humanitarian parole,” a maneuver that allows visa-less foreign nationals to come to the U.S. with the hope of being approved for asylum, refugee status, a visa, or green card in the future.
This week, a group of 55 House and Senate Democrats is urging Biden to open further the parole pipeline for Afghans. According to the lawmakers, “up to 500,000 Afghans are likely to seek refuge outside of [Afghanistan] by the end of the year and half of [Afghanistan’s] population is in need of aid.”
The Democrats call the Biden administration’s current parole process “restrictive and inconsistent” because there have been reports of Afghans being denied parole. “All vulnerable Afghans,” the Democrats write, must be allowed into the U.S. via parole.
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