In total, the Biden administration expects to resettle up to 95,000 Afghans, with several thousand still overseas on U.S. bases in the Middle East and Europe.
Martha Raddatz reports on a former Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Marines and his family's escape from Afghanistan amid the U.S. troop withdrawal and Taliban takeover.in some of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, he had pleaded for a U.S. visa last June as the Taliban were sweeping across the country, telling ABC News's Martha Raddatz,"I know that I will be killed by the Taliban."By August, with the U.S.
To date, approximately 48,000 of them have been resettled in communities across the country, while 26,000 remain on military bases in New Jersey, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana, New Mexico, and Virginia. During a recent town hall on base, one Afghan refugee showed a photo of his cousin on his phone and shared that he was murdered two days earlier by the Taliban.
"If you work a single day for a coalition force, or you support a single day for the coalition forces, they will kill you," Abdul told Raddatz when they first met in June. Days later, they returned to Kabul to a secure hotel, waiting to make that dangerous journey to Kabul airport with the help of ABC News.
On Oct. 30, they were flown to Philadelphia and driven onward to McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, where they've spent nearly two more months now -- anxious to make that last move to their new home.Abdul, his wife Lima, and their three daughters wait at a U.S. military base in the UAE after escaping Kabul as part of the unprecedented evacuation operation.