IT APPEARS WE’RE OFF TO THE RACES in another war before we’ve even realized the full after effects of Joe Biden’s seriously botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer.
One thing is for certain, though: American taxpayers, the roughly 50% of the population who actually pays income taxes, are picking up the tab for the Afghanistan disaster. It appears the installed puppet-in-chief who naps in the White House during the week has plans to give visas to tens of thousands of Afghanis.
Over 76,000 refugees and 2,000 Afghani students studying here will be allowed to remain in the United States for at east 18 months, the regime’s D.H.S. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on Wednesday. The only requirements are that they already be in the country and pass a background check. Many were settled with “humanitarian parole” in D.C., Virginia, California, and, surprisingly, Texas.
Note this doesn’t include Afghanis who worked for the U.S. as interpreters or in other support capacities. They largely remain behind in a Taliban Disneyland with its rollercoaster economy. Their fate may be starvation, or even worse.
Certain advocates have demanded Congress pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would grant Afghanis permanent residency and allow them to apply for citizenship. Obviously, none of this would ever have had to even be contemplated had the U.S. used the military for special ops to take out select terrorists rather than for a highly protracted engagement in policing a Third World country.
This is all in addition to the legal immigrants and refugees from elsewhere around the world that the U.S. welcomes every year, along with all the illegal migrants who flaunt American law and invade the country despite it being at least in the United States Code, if not in practice, unlawful. It’s also in addition to what will surely be a mass migration from Ukraine, whose citizens are granted temporary protected status here. Many, or even most, may be wonderful people, but ask almost any Gen-Z American about our housing shortage. We should first look out for ourselves.
UPDATE: On 3/17, Mayorkas said anyone claiming to be Ukrainian arriving illegally would be allowed to stay, even if things turn out badly like in France.
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