There's a desire among lawmakers to help some Afghans. But an early split over new refugee visas points to a looming battle over a politically heated issue.
WASHINGTON — A humanitarian crisis in the wake of the U.S.is sparking a political debate over what to do about refugees from the war-torn country.
On a day when the world witnessed harrowing images of desperate Afghans appearing to cling to a U.S. airplane in hope of escaping, Biden said in a speech a few hours earlier, "We're also expanding refugee access to cover other vulnerable Afghans who work for our embassy."a "humanitarian parole category" to allow Afghan women leaders, human rights activists and other public figures to quickly and efficiently relocate to the U.S.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the U.S. owes it to its friends in Afghanistan to help get them out and resettle them elsewhere. Stephen Miller, the conservative hard-liner who transformed U.S. immigration policy as an adviser in the Trump White House, said Republicans should reject efforts to expand Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, that would allow Afghan refugees into the U.S.
And opposition to taking in Afghans appeared to be brewing among prominent conservative media figures, including Laura Ingraham of Fox News, who sounded the alarm on her show Monday night about "thousands of potentially unvetted refugees" from Afghanistan. taken Friday to Monday, the left-leaning firm Data For Progress asked 1,193 likely voters whether Biden should speed the process of giving immigrant visas to U.S.
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