Kamala Harris promises to keep giving green cards to Afghan refugees despite terrorism concerns

By avagrace // 2024-10-24

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Vice President Kamala Harris is pushing a plan to provide tens of thousands of Afghan nationals with green cards as part of an effort to address immigration challenges following the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan in 2021. Critics have noted that despite widespread vetting failures that have emerged, including the recent arrest of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi in Oklahoma on allegations of plotting a terrorist attack and providing support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Harris remains committed to a legislative proposal that would grant permanent residency to Afghan evacuees. (Related: Government-imported Afghan refugee arrested for allegedly plotting ISIS-inspired Election Day terrorist attack.) Harris championed the program for the mass resettlement of Afghans across the United States despite revelations, including from federal prosecutors, that some of the Afghan refugees have ties to terrorist organizations like ISIS. "I have worked almost my entire career on a number of issues but with a particular emphasis on the protection of women and children and there’s no question that any of us who are paying attention are concerned about that issue in Afghanistan," Harris said in August 2021. At the same press conference, Harris vowed that the administration was "singularly focused" on evacuating Americans from Afghanistan and resettling Afghan nationals across the U.S. under the program Operation Allies Welcome. "Right now we are singularly focused on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us, and Afghans who are vulnerable, including women and children … we have a responsibility and we feel a deep commitment to making sure that folks who helped us are safe," Harris said. Soon after, the Biden-Harris administration resettled nearly 100,000 Afghan nationals across American communities – often without having been interviewed in person by federal agents. One of these resettled Afghans was 27-year-old Tawhedi, who entered the country on Sept. 9, 2021 on a Special Immigrant Visa. It was reported that Tawhedi had been living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with his wife and one-year-old child before being arrested by federal agents on Oct. 7 after purchasing two AK-47 assault rifles. Tawhedi is accused of plotting an ISIS terrorist attack on American citizens on Election Day this year with a juvenile co-conspirator, also from Afghanistan. The unnamed co-conspirator is the brother of Tawhedi's wife.

Afghan nationals to receive green cards without screenings

DOJ prosecutors allege that Tawhedi and his co-conspirator planned to liquidate their family's assets in Oklahoma, use the money made from the liquidation to pay off ISIS agents, and move the families back to Afghanistan before returning to the U.S. to carry out the Election Day terrorist attack. It has been reported that the Afghan nationals who will receive green cards will be able to do so without having to go through in-person screenings. Tawhedi is not the only Afghan refugee who was resettled despite previous or current ties to ISIS or other terrorist organizations. In April 2023, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official disclosed to Congress that several Afghans were resettled in the U.S. before they were discovered to have been setting up improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan to kill American military units. Back in 2021, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) demanded information about the number of Afghan nationals who were on the federal government's "No Fly List" because of their connections to Islamic terrorist organizations. Biden's leading agency officials have refused to reveal the total. In September 2022, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General published a shocking report highlighting how the Biden regime brought Afghan nationals to the U.S. who were "not fully vetted" and could "pose a risk to national security." In a similar vein, a DOD Office of Inspector General report in February 2022 revealed that Biden's agencies failed to properly screen Afghans who arrived in the U.S., and that roughly 50 Afghans were flagged for "significant security concerns" after being resettled. Visit InvasionUSA.news for more on illegal immigrants in the United States. Watch this Fox News report discussing how an Afghan refugee working for the Central Intelligence Agency has been accused of planning an Election Day terrorist attack. This video is from the NewsClips channel on Brighteon.com.

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Afghan nationals to receive green cards without screenings

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