Biden promises to evacuate ‘any American who wants to come home’ from Afghanistan, but questions remain
President Biden pledged on Friday to use “every resource necessary” to evacuate “any American who wants to come home” from Afghanistan. But, he warned, “I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or whether it will be without risk of loss.”
“We’ve made significant progress,” Biden said, telling reporters that 13,000 people, including Americans and Afghans who have applied for so-called Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, have been evacuated since Aug. 14, including 5,700 on Thursday. “We paused flights in Kabul a few hours this morning to make sure we could process the arriving evacuees at their transit points. But our commander in Kabul has already given the order for outbound flights to resume,” Biden said.
While Biden acknowledged that the U.S. military’s top priority is to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan, he also said “we are making the same commitment” to bringing Afghan citizens, including those who assisted the U.S.-led military coalition and others whose affiliations with the U.S. put them at high risk under Taliban rule.
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