{"id":1922346,"date":"2023-05-01T23:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-years-after-botched-withdrawal-the-biden-administration-has-yet-to-properly-vet-88000-afghan-refugees\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T23:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:31:57","slug":"two-years-after-botched-withdrawal-the-biden-administration-has-yet-to-properly-vet-88000-afghan-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-years-after-botched-withdrawal-the-biden-administration-has-yet-to-properly-vet-88000-afghan-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years After Botched Withdrawal, The Biden Administration Has Yet to Properly Vet 88,000 Afghan Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Ftwo-years-after-botched-withdrawal-the-biden-administration-has-yet-to-properly-vet-88000-afghan-refugees%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=1922346&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--><h2>Biden Administration Fails to Properly Vet Afghan Refugees<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s rushed military withdrawal from Afghanistan has resulted in serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-introduces-amendments-to-counter-china-and-iran\/\" title=\"Blackburn Introduces Amendments to Counter China and Iran\">national security concerns<\/a> for the state of U.S. homeland security. Over 88,000 Afghan refugees were resettled in the United States without proper vetting, according to lawmakers. <\/p>\n<h3>Obstacles to Screen, Vet, and Inspect Evacuees<\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security encountered obstacles to screen, vet, and inspect all evacuees arriving stateside after the 2021 evacuation that killed 13 American servicemen. House Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green (R., Tenn.) and subcommittee chairs August Pfluger (R., Texas), Dan Bishop (R., N.C.), and Clay Higgins (R., La.) said Monday in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. Customs and Border Protection lacked critical data to properly vet evacuees<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of Afghan refugees landed in America without passports or basic identifying information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Not only did the Biden administration&#8217;s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan threaten our allies in the region by allowing the Taliban to return the country to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-years-after-botched-withdrawal-the-biden-administration-has-yet-to-properly-vet-88000-afghan-refugees\/\" title=\"Two Years After Botched Withdrawal, The Biden Administration Has Yet to Properly Vet 88,000 Afghan Refugees\">terrorist breeding ground<\/a>,&#8221; Green told the <em>Free Beacon, <\/em>&#8220;but the failure of DHS to properly vet or screen all Afghan nationals during the evacuation has put the U.S. homeland and our security interests at great risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Lawmakers Demand Documents<\/h3>\n<p>Green and Pfluger are demanding the Biden administration hand over a trove of documents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pentagon-pick-colin-kahl-denies-leaking-classified-information-on-social-media\/\" title=\"Biden Pentagon Pick Colin Kahl Denies Leaking Classified Information on Social Media\">including classified information<\/a>, as part of the House GOP&#8217;s larger investigation into the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan. The pair notes that lawmakers still lack a full understanding of what went wrong with the withdrawal because Homeland Security &#8220;has stonewalled requests from committee members for information&#8221; from the outset.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Homeland Security Committee wants Homeland Security to provide all internal communications about Afghanistan from January 1, 2021, to the present<\/li>\n<li>This includes &#8220;all documents and communications between or among employees of DHS referring or relating to CBP&#8217;s screening, vetting, or inspection of Afghan evacuees,&#8221; according to the letter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The failure to produce these documents could result in a subpoena, a primary vehicle for Congress to force the Biden administration to comply with its investigations. <\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Terrorist Safe Haven<\/h3>\n<p>Former U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials told Congress that Afghanistan &#8220;is once again a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crenshaw-takes-on-no-more-endless-wars-crowd-they-prefer-to-live-in-a-dream-world\/\" title=\"Crenshaw Takes On \u2018No More Endless Wars\u2019 Crowd: \u2018They Prefer To Live In A Dream World\u2019\">terrorist safe haven<\/a>&#8221; under Taliban rule. Officials are particularly concerned that DHS and other intelligence agencies no longer have vetting networks in place that could thwart a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-extends-deadline-to-obtain-real-id-by-19-months\/\" title=\"DHS Extends Deadline To Obtain REAL ID By 19 Months\">future terrorist attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is under fire for failing to thoroughly vet over 88,000 Afghan refugees who were hastily resettled in the United States after the chaotic military withdrawal. Lawmakers are sounding the alarm, warning that this oversight poses a grave threat to our national security. Shockingly, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted to facing major obstacles in screening, vetting, and inspecting all of the evacuees who have arrived on our shores. This is a situation that demands urgent attention and action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1922347,"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":[25542,4106,6782,3620,7371,19518,5523,6866,8050],"class_list":["post-1922346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-25542","tag-administration","tag-afghan","tag-biden","tag-botched","tag-properly","tag-refugees","tag-vet","tag-withdrawal"],"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\/1922346","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}