3 years after fall of Kabul, US Congress has still not acted to secure future of more than 70,000 Afghan evacuees in US
- Written by Kelsey Norman, Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Amid the chaos that followed the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, the Biden administration declared that evacuated Afghans would be allowed to enter the U.S. via humanitarian parole. The initiative would provide them with temporary access to American soil, but not with a pathway to permanent residency.
In the weeks that followed, approx...