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The day before Thanksgiving tragedy struck in Washington, D.C., when two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan refugee in a targeted attack. One has since passed away.
President Trump has responded by pausing asylum applications and visas for Afghan nationals. The response from his political opponents? One bad apple shouldn’t necessitate culling the bushel.
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SHUT IT DOWN
Four years ago, during President Biden’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, the U.S. opened its doors to Afghan refugees. Those in favor of the resettlement program argued it was necessary to take care of the Afghans who assisted the U.S. in its two-decade-long war effort.
It quickly became clear, though, that the U.S. was not just offering a safe haven to Afghans who worked hand-in-hand with the military. Planes departed Kabul with thousands of unknowns on board — and at least one thousand Americans left behind — and flew to third countries where “screening” could take place.
Instead of prioritizing the exit of Americans and our closest allies, the Biden administration pushed ahead with a more generalized program to accept anyone who claimed credible fear of the Taliban. A House Republican memo indicated that by October 2021, just 700 of the 82,000 admitted Afghans held Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), which require a more intense screening process and confer permanent residency to those who assisted the American military.
I interviewed Stephen Miller in August 2021 to suss out what concerns Americans should have about such a massive resettlement program. He warned that if the U.S. were to accept all Afghans — and their families — who assisted the U.S. in any way, no matter how small, we’d be looking at bringing in about a million people.
The U.S. has accepted about 200,000 Afghan refugees since 2021.
Miller explained that any screening process is only as good as the information provided by applicants and the databases of their home countries. The Biden administration indeed relied only on criminal and terrorist databases to screen Afghan refugees and ignored tens of thousands of in-person interviews.
Many applicants did not have identification and could not remember their birthdates, which “resulted in a number of evacuees’ date of birth logged as January 1,” according to the Washington Examiner. So long as someone was not a known terrorist in a U.S. database, they would have passed screening. Some made it through despite red flags, anyway.
A 2022 report from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security found critical failures in the vetting programs for Operation Allies Refuge (OAR)/Operation Allies Welcome (OAW). Customs and Border Protection “did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees,” and “some information used to vet evacuees through U.S. Government databases, such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing.”
Of 88,977 screened applicants, 417 did not have a known first name, 242 did not have a known last name, and 11,110 had a DOB listed as January 1. Nearly half of the applicants had other documentation issues. Of those, 1,299 admits did not undergo biometric screening. DHS did not keep a separate list of Afghans who had discrepancies, missing information, or other concerns with their screenings.
It gets worse. The man who shot the two National Guard members was part of a “Zero Unit” that worked with the CIA. CBS reports that those units were known as “death squads” by human rights groups because of their brutality and alleged penchant for killing civilians. Almost 10,000 foreign “death squad” members have been resettled in the U.S. since 2021.
There is also no reasonable or efficient way for “vetting” processes to screen for ideology, yet many Afghan cultural norms are clearly incompatible with living in a Western nation. A Pew Research poll from 2013 found that Muslim Afghans are the least likely among Muslims worldwide to object to honor killings (just 24 percent object) or to afford women the right to decide whether or not they cover their faces. Seventy-nine percent of Afghan Muslims support executing Muslims who convert to other religions. Eighty-five percent support stoning women to death as punishment for adultery.
Last week’s shooter was far from the first high-profile “bad apple” to emerge from the Afghan refugee class.
In September 2021, one refugee was charged with assaulting his spouse at Fort McCoy; he allegedly raped his wife before choking her unconscious. In the same month, a different refugee was charged with attempted aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse for knowingly having sex with a minor boy and attempting to have sex with a second minor boy. Also in September, a female U.S. service member accused a group of refugees of assaulting her on a base in New Mexico.
In January 2022, an Afghan refugee who worked alongside U.S. troops was convicted of molesting a three-year-old girl at a Marine Corps refugee camp in Quantico. When asked about the crime, he admitted to groping the child’s genitals and said it was part of his “culture.”
An Afghan man who arrived in 2021 on an SIV pleaded guilty this year to plotting an Election Day terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State.
Earlier this year in Fairfax County, an Afghan refugee who came to the U.S. in 2014 after working as a translator for U.S. troops was shot dead by police. He became enraged during a traffic stop over an expired inspection sticker, insisted he should’ve worked for the Taliban instead of the U.S. military, and fired a gun at police officers.
I wrote in 2021, “We were once told by President George W. Bush that ‘we will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.’ Twenty years later, and a poorly managed evacuation effort means we may very well be facing them here. This time, we’re rolling out the welcome mat.”
How sad we had to learn that the hard way.
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