Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
No sooner had the Taliban taken control of Kabul than the establishment demanded that thousands of Afghans be given immediate U.S. resettlement privileges. Allegedly, and likely at least partially accurate, some Afghans are friendly to the U.S. government, and worked with American military. Now, so goes the standard patter, with our allies’ lives reportedly endangered, the Biden administration has a moral duty to invite them to America to find safe haven.
In a bitter irony, the most passionate cry to immediately resettle Afghans came from former President George W. Bush whose fallacious “weapons of mass destruction” claim first drew the U.S. military into a 20-year long Middle East quagmire. Bush, a devoted immigration expansionist, urged Biden to “cut the red tape” to expedite Afghans’ safe and secure exit out of the now Taliban-controlled country.
As the old English proverb goes, and as history has proven, “There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.” The first hurdle in a resettlement plan is President Biden’s demonstrated inability to effectively manage any immigration-related issue. The Southern U.S. Border, where last month a 21-year high of 210,000 aliens crossed, is the most shocking example, but other instances, all still in progress, are Biden’s unconstitutional refusal to enforce existing immigration law, his proposed 96 percent budget reduction in border security assets and his gutting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that protects the interior. Given Biden’s dismal immigration track record, only the most naïve could assume that his State or Homeland Security Departments could successfully vet tens of thousands of Afghans.
To be clear, fair-minded Americans want to help allies who have supported us in the extended Afghan War. But Americans don’t want the Afghan Special Immigration Visa (SIV) program to devolve into a similar situation to that of the fraud-ridden Iraqi SIV program. In June, Reuters reported that 4,000 Iraqis are suspected of filing fraudulent resettlement applications. The State Department is re-examining 40,000 cases that involve more than 104,000 people, 95 percent of them still in Iraq, and has frozen those applications until further clarification. More than 500 already-admitted Iraqi refugees have been implicated in the fraud and could be deported or stripped of their U.S. citizenship.
Despite documented fraud in the Iraqi SIV program, Biden initiated a similar program for Afghanistan. The Department of Defense reportedly will, post-Kabul, place 30,000 Afghan refugees in Wisconsin’s Ft. McCoy and Texas’ Ft. Bliss. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs John Kirby announced that, “We want to have the capacity to get up to several thousand immediately, and want to be prepared for the potential of tens of thousands.” Kirby’s inevitable undertaking will cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
The border crisis is expected to result this year in 2 million aliens, unvetted and some COVID-19 positive, allowed into the country. On August 17, the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new “Case Management Pilot Program” to pay cities, counties and nongovernmental organizations to offer “cultural orientation,” medical screening, mental health services, legal orientation programs and other assistance for illegal immigrants who have been caught and released. U.S. taxpayers will fully fund the administration’s program, a version of which the Trump administration canceled because of cost inefficiency.
The 2 million-plus border surge, added to the as-yet-undetermined tens of thousands of Afghan refugees that will be resettled, will ensure that the nation’s transformation will continue unabated. Census Bureau data showed that immigration, births to immigrants, the opioid epidemic and lower-than-anticipated birthrates among millennials after the Great Recession have contributed to a more diverse America.
The border fiasco and the Afghanistan mess are the direct consequences of wholly misguided, power-crazed elitists and inept military leadership. But, as always, Americans pay the financial tab and must adapt to whatever cultural changes and fallout that accompany the irresponsible politics that Washington, to citizens’ detriment, insists on forcing upon them.
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The sad reality is that most (more than 50%, plus one) americans of any breed or combination one wants to cite are content with the way they are ruled, and the people doing the ruling. They are content with the horrible schools, the waste and fraud, the scamming and the scammers. They are content with the toxic culture, the degradation of their cities and nation. Most (WAY more than half) americans will put up with it, more or less contentedly, right up until the entire machine grinds to a halt, the lights go off and Bud Light isn’t being restocked. Look around wherever you are and report any mistakes you see in this description. I dearly wish I were wrong.
There is no one coming to rescue the old US, because the majority of Americans don’t want to be rescued, and are not yet desperate enough to make much effort to rescue themselves. Maybe a lot of people will change their outlook before they die, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Some. Not many. Gonna get real ugly for a lot of people we know and love.
Absolutely.
Bud Light gets capitalization but America doesn’t? Hmm.
Willie, That is to demonstrate that most people are more concerned with Bud Light restocking than what used to be America. I don’t think I am too far wrong on that. Perhaps it is just united states that doesn’t warrant capitalization. Room for real debate there.
You’ve got a host of country’s to relocate them that seems at least hospitable. The U.K., Germany, a year ago I would have said France, but it looks like their citizens have finally had enough. Somewhere in Russia. Joe’s and Nancy’s neighborhoods. But we know how this will wind up. They’ve learned some inside bits about our military; they’re easily indoctrinated. We’ll be fighting them on our own soil.
“Countries,” not “country’s,” grammar Nazi.
I was pondering the new ammo ban
and was wondering since we left the taliban truck loads of 5.56 and .308 if we could ask them nicely to send over their 7.62×39 in exchange,just a thought.
Good analysis by Candace…
She’s still spouting the disinfo about 9-11 and “killing” Osama in 2011 in Pakistan.
A huge take away from Afghanistan should be, if you support or trust the USG you are placing your life at risk for no good reason. Hopefully more here and over seas wake up.
When will fully VAX’ed cards be required to get on a plane? Well, wouldn’t surprise me.
Marxist 101 -infiltrate all white nations with dark skinned people, nothing to do with racism on my part
VP Biden should have negotiated better terms of our surrender.
https://t.me/WeTheMedia/30549