A bipartisan group of 53 senators is urging President Biden to quickly evacuate Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicants and their families and fully implement changes to the program signed into law in late July
"The Taliban's rapid ascendancy across Afghanistan and takeover of Kabul should not cause us to break our promise to the Afghans who helped us operate over the past twenty years and are counting on us for assistance," the lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, wrote in a letter obtained by CNN Thursday."American inaction would ensure they become refugees or prime targets for Taliban retribution," they wrote.
" "We also urge your Administration to assist with the passage of individuals to the airport to safety -- both those within Kabul and those outside of the capital -- as well as to consider cases where Afghans fleeing quickly may not have been able to collect or gather appropriate documents," they wrote. 'We must now concentrate all U.S.
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