Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is hailing President Joe Biden’s “historic” resettlement operation that brought more than 115,000 Afghans to the United States on its two-year anniversary.
Following the U.S. Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Biden opened a refugee pipeline that has resettled Afghans, most without visas, across all 50 states in less than a year.
Many of those Afghans arrived without having been interviewed in person beforehand, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified to Congress.
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On its two-year anniversary, Mayorkas called the resettlement operation a “historic effort” that has made the U.S. “stronger” because the Afghans “enrich the cultural fabric of our society.”
“Two years ago, President Biden directed the Department of Homeland Security to lead…