The Republican leadership on the House Department of Homeland Security Committee is raising concerns about whether droves of Afghan refugees were vetted properly before being allowed into the U.S.
The Afghan refugee issue was caused in part by President Joe Biden’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021. Nearly 80,000 Afghan evacuees were resettled in the U.S. between July 2021 and January 2022, but reports indicate there was not enough information to adequately vet them.
A federal watchdog report from 2022 gave credence to Green’s concerns. That report found that “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees.”