4th and Inches said:
Waco1947 said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/22/distinguished-persons-week-lets-hear-it-deep-state/
i was good with it until they started talking about Trump messing up SIV, this is untrue. You can look at states quarterly reports to see it isnt true. Plus remember that some of this "tampering" was during the largest US/global pandemic shutdown in history.
I find facts that say Trump messed up.
Like this in Esquire " Over the last decade, Republicans have pushed to intentionally create a massive backlog in the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program - the one we use to bring Afghan partners to America, by putting onerous conditions on the applicationsIn 2016, Obama asked to increase the cap for the SIV program. Senate Republicans objected. Then, the Trump Admin started slowing down SIV processing. When Biden took over, there were 10,000 unfilled visas, despite 17,000 applications in the pipeline.
This dovetailed with the assault by Trump and Republicans to destroy other refugee programs that bring Afghans to the U.S. Obama admitted over 2,700 Afghan refugees. Trump admitted 400, bc he had dismantled the refugee system. Biden had to rebuild it.And today Trump Republicans are making it clear they will oppose bringing more Afghan refugees to the U.S.. Steven Miller: "Resettling [Afghans] in America is not about solving a humanitarian crisis; it's about accomplishing an ideological objective to change America."
Quite simply, any report on the "catastrophe" in Afghanistan that doesn't include these facts, especially the involvement of the odious Steven Miller, which continues to this hour, is not worth your time. Any report on the decline in the president's poll numbers that doesn't mention the deliberate efforts to sabotage his administration, and the real human cost of those efforts, can be considered disposable." Pierce is quoting Connecticut Senator Murphy
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a37373715/afghanistan-evacuations-biden-approval-siv-program/