{"id":1710725,"date":"2022-10-25T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710725"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:19:06","slug":"pleas-for-help-from-stranded-afghan-allies-went-unread-by-biden-admin-ig-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pleas-for-help-from-stranded-afghan-allies-went-unread-by-biden-admin-ig-report-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleas for Help From Stranded Afghan Allies Went Unread by Biden Admin, IG Report Reveals"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpleas-for-help-from-stranded-afghan-allies-went-unread-by-biden-admin-ig-report-reveals%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=1710725&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>Afghan allies&#8217; pleas for help amid President Joe Biden&#8217;s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban&#8217;s takeover of the country have gone unread by the Biden administration, a new report from the State Department&#8217;s inspector general found.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department established the National Visa Center&#8217;s Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program to help get stranded Afghan allies out of the country once the U.S. military pulled out . The inspector general&#8217;s report found that in May 2022, almost nine months after the withdrawal, the SIV program&#8217;s main email inbox had 325,000 unread messages, the <em>Washington Times\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/oct\/24\/feds-ignored-thousands-emails-afghan-allies-needin\/?utm_source=Boomtrain&#038;utm_medium=subscriber&#038;utm_campaign=morning&#038;utm_term=newsletter&#038;utm_content=morning&#038;bt_ee=OC96L8WoAF9vXiOho3bp4A2y2d%2F4GgsgHGKo4TqR8dnMQkhzuEHgFLX6y2V%2BojhZ&#038;bt_ts=1666691124751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In [the National Visa Center], the application backlog is related to opening emails sent to NVC\u2019s Afghan SIV email account,&#8221; the inspector general told the <em>Times<\/em>. &#8220;As of May 2022, the email account had over 325,000 unread messages, and OIG observed that NVC staff were still opening unread emails dated from August 2021.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 300,000 potential immigrants are waiting on the State Department to solve its backlog of applications for the Special Immigrant Visa. The department&#8217;s backlog is the latest blunder by the Biden administration in handling the Afghan withdrawal, Rep. Michael McCaul (Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This report outlines exactly what I have seen with my own eyes in my office\u2019s efforts to help our Afghan partners who are still trapped in the country,&#8221; McCaul told the <em>Times<\/em>. &#8220;Some of our cases involve people who submitted their SIV application over a year ago who still haven\u2019t received even an application number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In August, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called Biden&#8217;s pullout a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/haley-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-slap-in-the-face-to-all-combat-vets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slap in the face<\/a>&#8221; to every combat veteran that has &#8220;left the world less safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department, in a September filing, said it would clear the backlog by the end of October. Its inbox had\u00a0140,175 unread messages from &#8220;potential applicants&#8221; at\u00a0the end of August.\u00a0An official for the department did not answer when the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>asked if it was still on track, but it defended the program&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The department will continue to ensure Afghan SIV applications are processed as quickly as possible in accordance with statutory requirements, while continuing to safeguard U.S. national security,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These delays and dysfunctions, over several administrations, are the reasons so many vulnerable Afghan allies languished in Afghanistan in the first place,&#8221; said Mario Marquez, director of national security for the American Legion. &#8220;Corrective actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan allies&#8217; pleas for help amid President Joe Biden&#8217;s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban&#8217;s takeover of the country have gone unread by the Biden administration, a new report from the State Department&#8217;s inspector general found.<br \/>\nThe post Pleas for Help From Stranded Afghan Allies Went Unread by Biden Admin, IG Report Reveals appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1258060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}