Trump criticizes the program that brought Afghan refugees to the US who fought the Taliban

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Source: AP News

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the United States after the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. from their country as the Taliban took over, authorities said.

The program, called Operation Allies Welcome, was created after the 2021 decision to leave Afghanistan following 20 years of American intervention and billions of dollars of aid.

Democratic President Joe Biden, who oversaw the withdrawal started by his predecessor — Republican President Donald Trump — said the U.S. owed it to the interpreters and translators, the fighters and drivers and others who opposed the Taliban to give them a safe place outside of Afghanistan.

But others — including Trump and many Republicans — said the refugees were not properly vetted in a resettlement process they said was as chaotic and poorly planned as leaving the country to the Taliban.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-shooting-afghan-operation-allies-welcome-b11c48fb0b807e8f519c266e2a004d8e

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tRump conveniently forgets to mention that Lakanwal was granted asylum by the tRump administration.

[LakeVermilion]

1. As I recall...

Republicans jumped all over Biden because some allied Afghans were left behind. They thought that we should have brought more back.

[cstanleytech]

3. They'll either deny that they will ever say we should have done more to get them out or twist it.

They will never, ever accept responsibility and apologize.

[mdbl]

2. No one will ever trust us again.

At least in my generation.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

4. It is worth remembering that Emperor Tangerine hatched a secret plan to invite the Taliban to...

...Camp David back in 2019, but the "adults in the room" nixed that.

In 2020, his administration cut a deal with the Taliban that was in many ways a ticking timebomb.

When the chaotic withdrawal that his administration had set up finally occurred, Republicans were deeply split about how to handle the Afghans that would be left behind to be slaughtered by the Taliban.

As always, the reason for that came down to one thing: racism.

"But a second, more direct explanation is hostility to immigration, particularly nonwhite immigration. In an Economist/YouGov survey taken last month, 57 percent of Republicans said that immigration had made America worse; only 16 percent said it had made America better. The numbers among Democrats were almost exactly the opposite. More than 70 percent of Democrats said the United States should offer asylum to people fleeing violence or political persecution; only 36 percent of Republicans agreed. In another Economist/YouGov survey, 59 percent of Republicans said, correctly, that “the number of people in the United States who identify as white” was declining. Among white Republicans who gave that answer, most said the decline was “a bad thing.” Only one percent said it was a good thing."
https://web.archive.org/web/20210910220215/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/republicans-afghan-refugees-immigration-divided.html

It seems predictable that demonizing people will eventually evoke a reaction, but we can be fairly sure that is the point. Because the reaction to the reaction is what they wanted all along....