{"id":707691,"date":"2021-09-01T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=707691"},"modified":"2021-09-01T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:21:06","slug":"state-department-official-says-majority-of-afghan-siv-applicants-left-behind-in-afghanistan-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-official-says-majority-of-afghan-siv-applicants-left-behind-in-afghanistan-report\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Official Says \u2018Majority\u2019 Of Afghan SIV Applicants Left Behind In Afghanistan: Report"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fstate-department-official-says-majority-of-afghan-siv-applicants-left-behind-in-afghanistan-report%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=707691&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/F895304C-6F95-4936-BBA2-B0AE624E14D1_4_5005_c.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">A state department official has spoken out about experiences regarding the evacuation of people from Afghanistan over the past several weeks, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/01\/politics\/state-department-official-sivs\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The official said they did not have a specific count of the Afghan Special Immigrant (SIV) applicants and family members who did not make it onto evacuation flights, \u201cbut I would say it\u2019s the majority of them, just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>More broadly, the official described an evacuation effort confronted by numerous challenges \u2014 one that left US officials who worked on the ground \u201chaunted by the choices we had to make and by the people we were not able to help depart in this first phase of the operation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t pretty. It was very challenging,\u201d the senior official noted, \u201cand it involved some, some really painful trade-offs and choices for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The official described the process of the evacuation and how it progressed over time, among other details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEvery day was a constant improvisational effort to figure out what was going to work that day,\u201d they said. \u201cAs we got deeper into the process, we unfortunately had to start prioritizing the people to whom we had a legal obligation first and foremost, and that was our fellow American citizens. As we had room, space, capacity to manage other populations, we tried very hard to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN noted, \u201cThey also said the Taliban had \u2018variable\u2019 criteria for passage through their checkpoints to the airport, criteria that at times was \u2018inconsistent with \u2026 assurances they had given to us that they would allow certain people to pass.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDespite our best efforts to come up with an approach on a day-to-day, sometimes hour-by hour-basis that would allow groups to pass, it was unpredictable as to whether they would actually be able to get through,\u201d the official told the media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe had a couple of instances where buses were a mix of foreign nationals and Afghan local employees of other missions, and the (Taliban) would only let pass the foreign nationals, and they turned away or they held at that location the Afghan citizens who were on that particular movement,\u201d they said. \u201cIn some of those cases, we were able to successfully persuade them to then, in subsequent days, to allow that group to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-he-takes-responsibility-for-afghanistan-while-blaming-trump-afghans-trapped-americans\"><span class=\"s1\">addressed<\/span><\/a> the nation on Tuesday afternoon, stating that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was an \u201cextraordinary success\u201d despite the fact that hundreds of Americans are still in the country and the execution of the withdrawal of forces led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and hundreds of Afghans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-does-not-take-questions-while-hundreds-of-americans-remain-in-afghanistan\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, Biden turned his back on reporters after his speech and did not take questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier this month, Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/full-transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-interview-president\/story?id=79535643\"><span class=\"s1\">told<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos that troops would stay in the country until all of the Americans were out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stephanopoulos asked, \u201cSo Americans should understand that troops might have to be there beyond August 31st?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Biden answered, \u201cNo. Americans should understand that we\u2019re gonna try to get it done before August 31st.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stephanopoulos went on, \u201cBut if we don\u2019t, the troops will stay\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf \u2014 if we don\u2019t, we\u2019ll determine at the time who\u2019s left,\u201d Biden answered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAnd?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Biden eventually admitted, \u201cAnd if you\u2019re American force \u2014 if there\u2019s American citizens left, we\u2019re gonna stay to get them all out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Biden did not deliver on this promise as hundreds of Americans are still reportedly stuck in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state department official has spoken out about experiences regarding the evacuation of people from Afghanistan over the past several weeks, according to a report.CNN reported:The official said they did &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707691","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}