Opinion: Federal bureaucracy is endangering the lives of Afghan families who helped the U.S. We can and should be doing more to help these refugees.
In the aftermath of the United States’ retreat from Afghanistan, the carnage and human suffering continues. The bureaucracy within the U.S. government lacks the capacity to respond with anything but relying on “protocols” – which is to file all the normal paperwork and get in line.As I watched the horrific, my mind returned to visions of Saigon. People hanging from wheel wells of aircraft, being run down on the tarmac, people chasing the plane as it taxied.
In attempting to reunite Judge Wakili’s family, I have been in contact with multiple congressional and senatorial offices, the U.S. State Department, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. None will operate outside of the bureaucratic policies that were in place when our refugee resettlement program was marginally functional two years ago.This is not some vague hypothetical threat to peoples’ lives.
Judge Wakili is one example of many. He was a judge working alongside the U.S. military at Bagram Air Base. His job was to adjudicate Taliban members for terrorist activity. The hundreds of people he was involved with imprisoning have now been released. The judge’s home was hit with a rocket propelled grenade and his car bombed.
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