The Biden administration’s calls to provide evacuated Afghans a path to citizenship have so far gone unheeded
Bipartisan legislation to grant such status to those who fled the Taliban takeover is stalled over GOP security concernsKate Medley for The Wall Street JournalGREENSBORO, N.C.—When Asrar boarded a plane with more than 400 other Afghans fleeing Kabul for America last year, the longtime intelligence officer said he felt something he hadn’t in a long time: safe.
But more than a year later, the former Afghan colonel who spent two decades hunting Taliban fighters before arriving in North Carolina, says he has seen that sense of safety replaced by uncertainty and dread.
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