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I don’t think you even know what that means. You just use it now if someone disagrees with you like a petulant child calling someone else a doodoo-head and thinking you’re so creative.Confirms the MAGA tendencies.
Republicans in Congress have failed. MMM and Joni Ernst have failed. They’ve both said they will be all bi-partisan. As vets this was their chance. Relief for Afghans, and relief for immigration reform in general.This kind of sucks...
DEL RIO — Two brothers stand across from each other at the Val Verde Correctional Facility in this border city, speaking reverently through the fixed telephones. They are separated by the visiting room’s thick glass partition, too energized to sit.
One brother, Abdul Wasi Safi, wears an inmate’s bright orange uniform. The other brother, Sami-ullah Safi, wears a blue blazer, jeans and a look of determination to bring his brother home safely.
About 18 months ago, Abdul Wasi Safi, whose family calls him Wasi, was a newly minted officer in Afghanistan’s special forces, working alongside U.S. troops to combat the Taliban in the longest U.S. military engagement in its history.
Just three months later, the U.S. abruptly exited the country. The Taliban — an Islamic fundamentalist group — took control of the country and began hunting down those who had helped the Americans.
Over the course of the conflict there, the U.S. issued special visas to more than 34,000 Afghans who qualified for various reasons — including Sami, who in 2015 moved to Houston. Sami, 29, had been working side by side with the U.S. military as an interpreter for special forces in Afghanistan. For years, he traveled between the two countries and in July 2021 was granted full U.S. citizenship.
But thousands like Wasi, 26, who had helped U.S. forces — but were not paid by the U.S. government — were left behind with few options to escape. With a Taliban target on their backs, many went into hiding as reports of revenge killings grew.
When it was clear Wasi could not get a visa, he went into hiding with his parents and eight other siblings before setting out on a harrowing journey halfway around the world that led to a jail cell more than 12,000 miles from his home.
“It was unfair, unjust, for the U.S. military to leave all the people who put their lives on the line working for the military and in the end leaving them to be slaughtered by the Taliban and closing their eyes on them,” Sami said. “Pretending nothing happened. People have done so much.”
An Afghan soldier fleeing the Taliban spent months reaching the U.S. to request asylum. He was arrested at the Texas border.
Abdul Wasi Safi was trying to reach his brother, who immigrated legally to Houston after helping the U.S. military. Legal experts say Wasi may have to serve a criminal sentence before he can pursue asylum.www.texastribune.org
It’s a bipartisan failure.Republicans in Congress have failed. MMM and Joni Ernst have failed. They’ve both said they will be all bi-partisan. As vets this was their chance. Relief for Afghans, and relief for immigration reform in general.
NoIt’s a bipartisan failure.
RINOs who just want "open borders"
Fewer U.S. personnel would have died without our ‘nation building’.The ones that worked with the US were helping the US help them
A lot more US personnel would have died without our Afghan allies.
If neocons wouldn’t lose the wars they start would we have so many refugees trying to escape their latest ‘project’?
True but beside the point in regards to getting our Afghan allies out and honoring promises made.Fewer U.S. personnel would have died without our ‘nation building’.
Alright, then under the stipulation they are all relocated to George Bush’s ranch.True but beside the point in regards to getting our Afghan allies out and honoring promises made.
I don’t think you even know what that means. You just use it now if someone disagrees with you like a petulant child calling someone else a doodoo-head and thinking you’re so creative.
Excuse me for not wanting to allow any and every person who crosses halfway around the world through countless other countries to come to the US and seek “asylum”
I do, it’s a broken and ridiculous system allowing nearly anyone and everyone to say “seeking asylum” and they get to come in and chill. Seeking asylum from or via Mexico is nothing short of a joke.I don't think you know what 'asylum' means here in the Uinted States.
I do, it’s a broken and ridiculous system allowing nearly anyone and everyone to say “seeking asylum” and they get to come in and chill. Seeking asylum from or via Mexico is nothing short of a joke.
Mainly the fact many people are coming from other Central American countries and not seeking asylum in Mexico, but rather the US. This on top of seeking asylum from Mexico is a joke.What about it do you think is broken and ridiculous, and why would going through Mexico across the most trafficked border in the world be a joke? Is there another point of entry that makes more sense to you?
Mainly the fact many people are coming from other Central American countries and not seeking asylum in Mexico, but rather the US. This on top of seeking asylum from Mexico is a joke.
That is what is broken.
Which is even worse. He’s so afraid of staying in Afghanistan he skips over how many other countries to request asylum in the US specifically?Well, the thread is about an Afghani not a Mexican.
Which is even worse. He’s so afraid of staying in Afghanistan he skips over how many other countries to request asylum in the US specifically?
You're making the accusations/assumptions, you tell me what he "skipped over" and what he should have done differently to raise to your approval.
Yes, that's a very simple concept. I don't know how realistic it is, but it’s certainly simple.When escaping persecution you seek asylum in the very first safe country you encounter,.. Simple enough?
“journey halfway around the world”You're making the accusations/assumptions, you tell me what he "skipped over" and what he should have done differently to raise to your approval.
Yes, that's a very simple concept. I don't know how realistic it is, but it’s certainly simple.
“journey halfway around the world”
Seems to me he skipped over a number of countries in which he could have requested asylum in no matter which direction he went.
I do not. The article stated he traveled halfway across the world. I will assume he boarded a flight/boat (or both, possibly multiple times) somewhere and landed somewhere other than the US. Maybe I’m wrong in my assumption and he swam, or was on a submarine, or came via hot air balloon and thus I am sorry and will retract.You have his itinerary?
If you're truly running for your life it's very realistic....
The very first safe country he encountered,... Upon reaching safety there he could then pursue US entry through normal channels.I'm sure that's a subject both you and I know so much about. What country should this guy have gone to or is it just 'anywhere but here's? Because the vibe these conversations usually have is a few pages of anti-immigration folks dancing around the fact that they don't actually support any sort of realistic immigration, only the nebulous idea of "the right way".
You telling me he didn’t first encounter or couldn’t encounter any of these easier?I'm sure that's a subject both you and I know so much about. What country should this guy have gone to or is it just 'anywhere but here's? Because the vibe these conversations usually have is a few pages of anti-immigration folks dancing around the fact that they don't actually support any sort of realistic immigration, only the nebulous idea of "the right way".
You telling me he didn’t first encounter or couldn’t encounter any of these easier?
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Brazil
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vatican City
The very first safe country he encountered,... Upon reaching safety there he could then pursue US entry through normal channels.
I'm pretty sure asylum is a pretty normal channel in the USA. It is the law after all.
As currently written, our asylum laws are supremely phucked up...
I disagree. The law, IMO, is fine. The system of enforcement and processing sure is behind the times though and could sure use some updating/reorganization. But that seems to be an area that there can be no compromise.
Those are probably mostly socialist European countries. Places that America doesn't need ro look to for advise because of our unique size and demographics.We are all entitled to our own opinion,... But the majority of countries on this planet require asylum seekers to apply for same upon reaching the first safe country encountered.
I think we can agree that Afghanistan and the US do not share a border
NPR laid the blame squarely at the feet of Iowa’s 89 year old senator, Chuck Grassley. There was enough support, but the rules of the Senate allowed Chuck to block the movement of the legislation. He thinks we cannot properly screen non whites. Let’s be honest about what that old goof thinks.It’s a bipartisan failure.
Chuck Grassley is shameful.NPR laid the blame squarely at the feet of Iowa’s 89 year old senator, Chuck Grassley. There was enough support, but the rules of the Senate allowed Chuck to block the movement of the legislation. He thinks we cannot properly screen non whites. Let’s be honest about what that old goof thinks.