Biden Regime Allowing Former Taliban To Migrate To U.S. Under Refugee Program Billed As For ‘Interpreters

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U.S. Allowing Former Taliban Employees To Migrate To U.S. Under Refugee Program Billed As For ‘Interpreters’

By Luke Rosiak • Aug 18, 2022 DailyWire.com •

The Biden administration program to bring Afghan refugees to the U.S. was popularly marketed as being for interpreters who had helped American forces, but the program was later expanded to explicitly permit former Taliban employees, according to a new government report.

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In June, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State announced “new exemptions” including for “individuals who worked as civil servants under the Taliban” and “individuals who provided only certain limited material support to the Taliban or other designated terrorist organizations,” according to a new joint DHS, DOS, and USAID Inspector General report that cited correspondence with the Department of State.

A statement from DHS that month said that the change will “ensure that individuals who have lived under Taliban rule, such as former civil servants, those required to pay service fees to the Taliban to do things like pass through a checkpoint or obtain a passport, and those who fought against the Taliban are not mistakenly barred because of overly broad applications of terrorism-related inadmissibility grounds (TRIG) in our immigration law.”

“The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General, exercised their congressionally provided discretionary authority to create three new exemptions, which can be applied on a case-by-case basis,” it said.

“This exemption does not include individuals who held high-level positions, worked for certain ministries, or directly assisted violent Taliban activities or activities in which the individual’s civil service was motivated by an allegiance to the Taliban,” it added.

A Department of State spokesperson told The Daily Wire that “The Afghan applicants this action is meant to protect include, but are not limited to, Special Immigrant Visa applicants, allies of the U.S. government, and others unable to avoid interacting with the Taliban or other terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. It is important to note that this is not an automatic exemption, but rather may be applied after a careful review on a case-by-case basis.”

The Taliban is still largely the same entity that entered the consciousness of Americans not long after September 11, 2001. The inspector general audit reported “little discernible change in the behavior of the Taliban’s members, many of whom were part of the Taliban movement that was deposed in 2001. During the quarter, the Taliban likely appointed no new Haqqani Network-affiliated officials to senior positions within its interim government, according to the DIA. As of June, Haqqani Network affiliated individuals, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and Haji Mali Khan, maintained their existing positions in the Taliban’s interim government. The Haqqani Network is a DoS-designated foreign terrorist organization that is closely affiliated with the Taliban.”

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