President Biden is tapping the former governor of his home state, Jack Markell, to serve temporarily as a White House point person on the resettlement of refugees from Afghanistan.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he expects the U.S. will resettle over, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, visa holders, applicants for special immigrant visas and others at risk, including "journalists, and vulnerable women and girls."
General Tod Wolters, the head of U.S. European Command said that as of Thursday, 58 individuals need further security processing, but he believes all of them will be cleared. Mayorkas acknowledged that while some Afghans have been flagged on terror watch lists in transit countries, they will not be permitted into the United States pending further investigation. "Our policy is not to board flights to the United States until they are cleared," Mayorkas said. He wouldn't say where individuals under investigation will be detained, but noted the U.S. is "working with international allies to address the disposition of those individuals.
Near El Paso, Texas, at Fort Bliss, there are about 6,100 Afghan evacuees. Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, is housing 3,700. There are 3,650 at Fort Pickett in Virginia, 1,600 at Fort Lee, Virginia and about 800 in Quantico, Virginia. Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico received its first group of more than 100 evacuees on Tuesday and now as 650 evacuees.
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