{"id":1279997,"date":"2022-02-07T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279997"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:22:53","slug":"house-democrats-urge-joe-biden-to-fast-track-more-afghans-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-urge-joe-biden-to-fast-track-more-afghans-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Urge Joe Biden to Fast-Track More Afghans into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-urge-joe-biden-to-fast-track-more-afghans-into-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">House Democrats, along with Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), are urging President Joe Biden to fast-track thousands more Afghans into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter&nbsp;to Biden, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21196601-afghanistan-evac-letter-to-biden_02-feb-2022?responsive=1&amp;title=1\">published<\/a> by <em>USA Today<\/em>, 80 House Democrats and Mast ask that the administration \u201cexpedite [visa] processing\u201d for Afghans overseas and to \u201censure that those Afghans evacuated through private charter flights have a legal pathway to resettlement in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, the Democrats and Mast want Biden to allow Afghans who were already denied \u201chumanitarian parole\u201d \u2014 the process used to quickly bring thousands to the U.S. \u2014 to be eligible for refugee resettlement via the State Department.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17738546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1336697982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17738546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1336697982.jpg\" alt=\"DULLES, VIRGINIA - AUGUST 27: Refugees board buses that will take them to a processing center after they arrive at Dulles International Airport after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan August 27, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia. Refugees continued to arrive in the United States one day after twin suicide bombings at the gates of the airport in Kabul killed 13 U.S. military service members and nearly 100 Afghans. \u201cWe will not forgive,\u201d President Joe Biden warned ISIS, who claimed responsibility for the attacks. \u201cWe will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.\u201d (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugees board buses that will take them to a processing center after they arrive at Dulles International Airport after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan August 27, 2021, in Dulles, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The letter is an insight into the Biden administration and Democrats\u2019 plans to continue an unlimited flow of Afghans into the U.S. with no end in sight. Already, more than 66,000 Afghans have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/27\/globalists-unite-biden-resettles-over-66k-afghans-across-u-s-with-help-from-clinton-bush-obama\/\">resettled<\/a> in a number of American communities, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/05\/exclusive-jim-bognet-biden-turning-beautiful-rural-pennsylvania-into-afghan-refugee-dumping-ground\/\">rural<\/a> Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The resettlement was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/30\/49-republicans-help-democrats-pass-billions-in-welfare-drivers-licenses-for-95k-afghans-brought-to-u-s\/\">authorized<\/a> by 49 House&nbsp;and Senate Republicans who joined Democrats in September 2021 to fund the resettlement to the sum of $6.4 billion. Then, in December 2021, 20 House and Senate Republicans helped Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/03\/the-list-19-senate-republicans-give-biden-over-13b-to-resettle-unlimited-flow-of-afghans-across-their-states\/\">pass<\/a> an additional $7 billion&nbsp;in funds to ramp up the endless Afghan migration.<\/p>\n<p>Refugee contractors, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that rely on American taxpayer money to resettle refugees across the U.S. annually, secured billions as a result of the funding measures.<\/p>\n<p>Every five years, refugee resettlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/02\/05\/study-refugee-resettlement-costs-u-s-taxpayers-more-than-8b-in-five-years\/\">costs<\/a> taxpayers nearly $9 billion. Over the course of a lifetime, taxpayers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/05\/study-american-taxpayers-billed-up-to-133k-per-refugee-resettled-in-u-s\/\">pay<\/a> about $133,000&nbsp;per refugee and within five years of resettlement, roughly 16 percent will need taxpayer-funded housing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 20 years, nearly a million refugees have been resettled in the nation \u2014 more than double that of residents living in Miami, Florida, and it would be the equivalent of annually adding the population of Pensacola, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at&nbsp;jbinder@breitbart.com.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats, along with Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), are urging President Joe Biden to fast-track thousands more Afghans into the United States. 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