A leaked budget proposal sent to the US State Department from the White House Office of Management and Budget on April 10 highlighted the currency of the Trump administration towards Afghan colleagues, especially those who were waiting for transportation in the US through coordinator for the Afghan transfer efforts (care) as part of the after -vault.
The OMB budget has proposed to stop the additional amount of $ 600 million of the program to use and to use the additional amount “(Financial Year) to systematically close the care program by the end of 2025.”
The National Security Council and the Department of External Affairs did not answer the questions of Fox News Digital whether these funds would be used to take additional Afghans and suspended US refugee entry programs (Usrap) pipelines to America, or to separate the processing platforms in Philippines, Qatar and Albania.
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American service member guide is at the US Air Force C -17 GlobeMaster III, Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, riding on 21 August 2021. (Senior Airman Brenon Leg/US Air Force AP)
But a spokesman of the State Department told Fox News Digital, “The department is actively considering the office of the coordinator for the future of our Afghan rehabilitation program and the Afghan transfer efforts (care). At this time, no final decision has been taken. Care has already shifted our overseas case processing platform.”
Veteran experts told Fox News Digital that care shutdown would be a problem for the US’s reputation and for the Allies who believed in the promises of American security.
#Afghanevac founder and chairman US Navy veteran Sean Wandivar told Fox News Digital that Operation Enduring Welcom “is the safest, safest legal immigration route that our country has ever seen” and allows well -wasted Afghans to show and start business in our communities and become jobs at a time.
Vandivar mentioned areas where Trump Biden could improve the operation of administration, which was “so slowly done in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in 90 countries around the world … left behind for three and a half years.” Especially in Pakistan, the Biden administration promised the Pakistani government “that it would process the Afghans quickly,” Vandivar said. “We are not maintaining the end of our deal; 10,000 people are still trapped in Pakistan because President Biden could not give them home fast.”
Josh Habib speaks on July 2, 2009, a US Marine translator, Left, Afghan villagers and two marines in Helmond province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guuttenfelder)
Wandivar insisted that “President Trump has an opportunity to be a hero for veterans and our war -time colleagues, and it shows that when the United States makes a deal, it promises itself.”
In An open letter On 23 April, State Secretary Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary PT Hegaseth, Homeland Security Christie NoM Secretary and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, #Afghanevac, “remain in more than 250,000 Afghan rehabilitation pipelines,” sent to #Afghanevac.
Andrew Sulivan, executive director of non-profit, told Fox News Digital that his organization supported the Congress Authority for the three-year appointment of a coordinator for Afghan rehabilitation efforts in 2024, which had “comprehensive bipartisan” and “comprehensive bikeameral support”.
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“We believe the Congress spoke for a reason and should exist,” Sulivan said. “We have a moral obligation and a national security is mandatory to ensure that we are continuing agitation and safe asylum for our war -time colleagues.”
The termination operation endoring welcome and care program “Just spit on the face of veterans like himself, who fought with us for 20 years, working to keep our promise from the Afghans,” Sulivan said.
In addition to the deployment of two Iraq, Sulivan was posted in 2013 as the US Army Infantry Company Commander, Afghanistan. In February, he “further deployed” Tirana, Albania and Doha, no one left for processing platforms in Qatar, after the executive order of January 20, for foreign funding, this way.
In November 2020, the new graduate personnel marched during their graduate ceremony after a three -month training program at Afghan Military Academy in Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
Thanks to “Robust American support which comes from political spectrum,” no one received enough donations to travel to more than 1,000 Afghans.
Sulivan said, “In Albania, I met someone who was paralyzed by the Taliban after being shot twice.” “I met someone who was tortured, hands and ankles were kept together, secured by the village elders before his release before a week.” Both individuals were transferred from Afghanistan in December 2024, which Sulivan says Afghan is still “facing cruelty, facing completely death, if they live in the clutches of the Taliban.”
Sulivan says that the Biden administration can “have the same things” for the tens of thousands of Afghans by the Biden administration. It includes “10,000 Principal (SIV) applicants and their families,”, who has already received the first hurdle of the SIV program, head of mission approval, according to quarterly reports by the State Department.
With no words about the fate of colleagues, Taliban worries a lot about vengeance. So many Afghans in the US learned in April that their parole was canceled or their temporary protected position (TPS) was abolished by Secretary NoM. Questions sent to Homeland Security were not immediately refunded.
The Taliban fighters celebrate the second anniversary of the return of US -led troops from Afghanistan on August 15, 2023, in Kandhar, south of Kabul. (AP/Abdul Khalik)
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Bill Roasio, editor of The Long War Journal and a senior partner of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, told Fox News Digital that sending colleagues in Afghanistan “would be punished for many people.”
“The Taliban showed that they have – and continue – brutally hunted the Afghans working with the US and the former Afghan government,” Rozio said. “Thousands have been murdered or tortured. The Taliban cannot be trusted in any way, size or form. Their previous tasks, such as opening the unsuccessful Doha Agreement openly flouting and securing al Qaeda, or now refusing to interact with the faulty Afghan government, demonstrating this.”
