'The United States should start by leading by example and issuing visas to some members of the UN's Afghan staff,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 11 Democrats wrote in a letter to Biden.
Ocasio-Cortez, alongside Rep. and 10 other Democratic House colleagues, made the appeal to the president in a letter on Monday.
New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 11 of her Democratic House colleagues on Monday urged President Joe Biden to issue Afghan UN employees U.S. visas to escape the Taliban. Ocasio-Cortez is pictured outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on August 3, 2021.Biden withdrew all U.S. forces from Afghanistan this summer, following through on peace deal that the administration of former PresidentThe U.S.
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