(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Open-borders activists are pushing for an Afghan Adjustment Act that would grant at least 36,000 Afghan citizens permanent legal status and a pathway to citizenship.
When the United States military chaotically evacuated Afghanistan last year, it brought about 80,000 Afghan refugees into America, with about 60 percent receiving visas, according to Conservative News Daily.
The remaining 40 percent—about 36,000 Afghans—managed to enter the United States without visas and without credible justifications to receive them, even as the Biden administration left American citizens behind, the Department of Homeland Security stated in its Afghan Evacuee Report.
These illegal immigrants failed to qualify for Special Immigrant Visas even after Congress and the Biden administration expanded the definition of eligible Afghan refugees to anyone who worked for the United States government, even in the most tangential capacity as a contractor or media employee.
One letter described the Afghans in limbo as “Afghan women’s rights advocates, former reporters, and extended family members of Afghan U.S. military-affiliated interpreters.”
Despite their illegal status, the federal government released tens of thousands of Afghans on a two-year “humanitarian parole.” This phase will give the Biden administration time to concoct a strategy to let them remain indefinitely in the United States.
One letter to the House and Senate leaders—Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Republicans Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell—called on Congress to pass an Afghan Adjustment Act.
The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America appear to have drafted the letter, and they received signatures from 100 so-called “faith-based” organizations and 253 leaders, including the Leftist Anti-Defamation League and Church World Service.
“Guided by our faith values, we believe that immigration policies must prioritize family unity and honor the God-given dignity of each person,” the letter stated.
It does not appear that a Senator or Representative has actually introduced an Afghan Adjustment Act, though a bill has been introduced to direct more money to settling Afghans who qualified for Special Immigrant Visas.
