The Defense Department Inspector General reported a “major criminal security incident” at Marine Corps Base Quantico when an Afghan refugee engaged in “what appeared to be an unlawful act with a child,” Military.com reported.
The military base transferred the Afghan suspect to the FBI‘s custody.
President Joe Biden imported more than 120,000 Afghan refugees from Afghanistan after the Taliban reconquered the nation in a Blitzkrieg-style takeover.
The Quantico base spent more than $188 million to house fewer than 3,800 Afghan nationals—at a cost of nearly $50,000 per person—from August to late December.
Seven other military bases housed another 67,000 Afghans. These are Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia; Fort McCoy in Wisconsin; Fort Bliss in Texas; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey; Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico; and Camp Atterbury in Indiana.
Five bases still house Afghans.
The military personnel had to drop their normal activities to care for the Afghans, Stripes.com reported.
“The extensive use of the unit’s workforce disrupted its normal operations at both MCB Quantico and Camp Lejeune, which could impede future missions,” the report said.
The federal government paid for the refugees to have internet access, three hot meals a day, and entertainment, including movie nights, dances, and sporting events.
The Democrat-controlled Congress has so far appropriated $13.3 billion in money stripped from the Defense Department, State Department, and Homeland Security Department to resettle the Afghans.
The Defense Department has reimbursed Quantico for about $138 million.
Democrats want to spend more money to resettle the Afghans, who often do not hold traditional American values, across the nation.
“Now Democrats want another $7 billion for the Afghan resettlement process on top of the $6 billion they have already spent in the last three months. For reference, Oklahoma’s total budget is $8.83 billion — for a state of 4 million people,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said in a statement in December.
