A staunch U. S. ally Kosovo has agreed to take in Afghan evacuees who fail to make it through the early stages and take them in for up to a year, a U. S. official said Saturday, in a move to address one of the frenzy’s security problems. problems U. S. evacuation of Kabul airport.
Most likely, the U. S. plan will be the only one to do so. USA Face objections from refugee advocates, who already complain about the lack of public disclosure and dubious legal jurisdiction in the Biden administration’s use of screening sites. These temporarily established transit sites still operate at a near or full speed. to determine eligibility and seek security considerations among thousands of Afghans and a smaller number of Americans who left Taliban-controlled Afghanistan between 15 and 31 August.
The U. S. official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the plan. This is the first revelation of what the U. S. intends to do with Afghans or other evacuees who have not passed the first rounds of screening or whose instances require additional treatment.
The U. S. Embassy in Kosovo, in a statement issued Saturday afternoon, under pressure that the deal did not mean Kosovo accepted evacuees who were not considered eligible for admission to the United States. all data required to qualify under U. S. law for prompt entry,” the embassy said.
Biden’s leadership had resisted for months pressure from some refugee organizations and veterans’ teams to bring former Afghan allies or others more vulnerable to the Taliban on U. S. soil for security checks and other treatments.
Several other countries have been reluctant for a while to temporarily welcome Afghan evacuees from the United States, for fear of getting stuck in U. S. security concerns. All of this presented the main obstacles in U. S. arrangements for the evacuation of vulnerable Afghans, even before the fall of Kabul. to the Taliban on 15 August.
The Taliban’s lightning conquest of Afghanistan, the U. S. military’s chaotic airlift from Kabul airport.
In the days following the Taliban’s takeover, the leadership mobilized thousands of U. S. troops, diplomats, law enforcement officials, border and transportation workers, volunteers and others to examine, treat and care for evacuees at more than a dozen naval stations. airfields and the U. S. ArmyOfficers and volunteers handed out comfortable toys and toys to young people arriving at many transit sites and setting up play areas.
The purpose of the mobilization was to bring evacuees to the U. S. USA As temporarily as you can imagine and prevent potential protection hazards among evacuees and other evacuees who did not qualify for resettlement in the U. S. Before touching down.
Refugee teams criticize the Biden administration’s evacuation effort as too backward and too unforeseen. The avalanche of airlifts after the fall of Kabul led a minority of evacuees to move thousands of miles from Kabul’s airport before the Americans detected problems, adding some evacuees with safety concerns.
In one case, a red flag gave the impression of the case of an evacuee while in mid-flight between two of the overseas transit sites, another U. S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the treatment. In a small number of cases, U. S. transit sites are in the U. S. U. S. officials are also prosecuting other evacuees who require further investigation, or who are denying or destroying their identification in hopes of qualifying for immigration, the U. S. official said.
Some of those they controlled to get through the crushing crowds and U. S. and Taliban checkpoints at the airport were boarded on planes and went to transit sites, with no obvious eligibility for U. S. resettlement as at-risk Afghans, the official said.
Most Afghan evacuees are resolved in a matter of days at gigantic transit sites that U. S. government workers have temporarily set up at military bases in Qatar, Germany and Italy, as well as at smaller sites elsewhere. These evacuees then pass through Philadelphia or Washington Dulles airports. to resettle in the United States.
Other U. S. officials said they expect a maximum or all Afghans whose instances would likely first generate red flags or questions to pass further examination.
Eligible Afghans come with those who have worked for the U. S. government, or women’s advocates, journalists, or others who are vulnerable because of their role in Afghan civil society.
The U. S. official who leaked the Kosovo plan said the transit centers “provide a safe position for teamsArray . . .
The U. S. will use an army camp, Bondsteel, which locates the U. S. military near Kosovo’s capital for further inspection and repair of evacuees destined for resettlement in the United States, the U. S. official said. temporarily evacuated space to other NATO countries, under the control and care of NATO.
Germany and Italy have set deadlines of no more than two weeks for the U. S. remedy of any evacuees on their soil.
Kosovo has a close best friend of the United States since the United States conducted a NATO air crusade in 1999 against Serbian forces brutalizing civilians in Kosovo. The two Afghan evacuation sites are located along a road named after President Joe Biden’s deceased son, Beau Biden, who helped exercise local judges and prosecutors after the Kosovo war.
Kosovo’s leaders agreed to a one-year stay for the evacuees, with an extension. Kosovo’s prime minister and other officials visited the airport to receive the first Afghan evacuees.
The majority of Kosovo’s population is Muslim, as are Afghans, Kosovo’s charter establishes it as a secular state. Kosovo has a really large minority of Orthodox Christian Serbs.
Refugee organizations say the U. S. USA It has not been open or effective in dealing with evacuees in transit centres.
“There’s a staggering lack of transparency in the management component about what’s going on, who’s there. . . the main American refugee running with the Afghans to escape the Taliban.
He spoke before Biden’s leadership revealed his plans for the siege of Kosovo.