In the 2021 fiscal year, the U.S. admitted its lowest number of refugees in the program's over 40-year history: just 11,411, according to newly released State Department data.
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz explains what role the U.S. has played in Afghanistan in recent years and why the Taliban wants to take over the country.With the fall of the Afghan government, the Biden administration has so far brought roughly 60,000 Afghans to the U.S., with plans for tens of thousands more to arrive in the next year.
Those Afghans will now have access to support and services usually given to refugees because of the federal government funding bill that passed last week, but their future legal status is in question, as a White House proposal to fast track them to receive a green card was left out. But those Trump-era efforts to dismantle the program led to this small number, and now they endanger Biden's promise to admit 125,000 refugees in the fiscal year of 2022, which runs through next Sept. 30.Newly arrived refugees from Afghanistan are seen waiting to be processed by Turkish officials at the Kurubas migrant repatriation center during a press tour, Sept, 28, 2021, in Van, Turkey.
While several resettlement agencies in the U.S. say the Trump-era damage is obvious, they expressed some disappointment that Biden's team hasn't done more to reverse that, saying responsibility now lies with them.Military Police walk past Afghan refugees at the Village at the Ft. McCoy US Army base, Sept. 30, 2021, in Ft. McCoy, Wisconsin.
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