Our Borders Are Open to Everybody… EXCEPT Allies

For these of us who served throughout the endlessly battle in Afghanistan, our withdrawal simply over a 12 months in the past will stick with us till we die. So many people left items of ourselves in that nation, actually and figuratively. So many people served with and, in lots of situations, owe our lives to the Afghan companions we skilled and fought beside.

It’s a stain on our nation that may take generations to fade and is a wound in my technology of veterans’ hearts that may by no means absolutely heal. And whereas there’s some hope that maybe we’ll get some solutions as to what the hell occurred with the brand new Republican majority promising investigations and hearings, tales just like the one I’m about to let you know spotlight simply how damaged our authorities has change into.

It’s simple to change into numb to the numbers we hear each day, statistics displaying how far we’ve fallen – from the financial system and crime to the border and failing take a look at scores. So generally it’s value specializing in one quantity or, on this case, one man.

Please grant Asylum for Abdul Wasi Safi, Afghan elite soldier who fought the Taliban alongside American troopers. After a harrowing journey to flee, he’s detained on the border in Texas. @POTUS @GregAbbott_TX @StateDept @DHSgov pic.twitter.com/zWavMKyogE

— Ann (@Surviving_TX) December 1, 2022

The place Is The Mom Of Exiles?

Abdul Wasi Safi was proud to serve his nation of Afghanistan. He skilled with america Particular Forces to change into a member of an elite group of Particular Forces Commandos.

He fought aspect by aspect with our most courageous and deadly troopers, preventing collectively for a typical function and hope for his nation. After which all of it modified.

We’ve all heard the tales of Afghan items laying down their weapons and giving in to the Taliban with little to no combat. Abdul was not that sort of man. 

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He was nonetheless preventing the Taliban after we have been frantically leaving his nation, and when the final U.S. plane left, he was compelled to enter hiding. Due to our administration’s negligence, we left the Taliban with the instruments to seek out and discover males like Abdul.

Due to the biometric gadgets we left behind, the Taliban solely wanted Abdul’s fingerprints to establish and execute him for preventing with us. Fortunately, U.S. veterans did what our authorities wouldn’t and helped him navigate from protected home to protected home, getting him to Pakistan and ultimately to Brazil. 

Abdul traveled by means of ten totally different international locations, all alongside the way in which getting robbed, tortured, and crushed. Nonetheless, he wouldn’t quit till he got here to the nation he knew in his coronary heart would settle for him as a result of absolutely america would take him in.

A technology in the past @ChuckGrassley was a hero to the Vietnamese evacuated on the Vietnam Battle’s finish. At present he can play hero to the Afghans evacuated final August, the 300,000+ left behind Afghan wartime allies, & a technology of American veterans now affected by #moralinjury 🧵

— Matt Zeller (@mattczeller) December 15, 2022

A Hero’s Welcome?

Abdul made it to our border, and whereas making an attempt to cross the Rio Grande in September, he was apprehended and arrested.

Now, identical to how the Taliban has biometric knowledge on males like Abdul, so does our authorities, so one would suppose as soon as Abdul was recognized as a former Afghan Particular Forces member, his request for asylum can be, at a minimal, thought-about if not granted.

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Assume once more; as an alternative, he was charged with a federal crime, making an attempt to enter our nation illegally. The opposite 90 or so migrants he crossed with illegally have been launched as a result of, apparently, we solely welcome those that we don’t know into our nation versus these we skilled and who fought with us.

Abdul instructed Fox Information:

“I used to be in a Particular Forces Commando unit with the U.S. navy. I needed to come back to america. I don’t choose one other nation to assist me as a result of I used to be with them. However I come right here, and so they put me in jail.”

Service, identical to in our nation, tends to run within the household in every single place, and Abdul is not any totally different. His brother Sami-Ullah Safi was a translator working for our navy.

He obtained a particular immigrant visa and have become a U.S. citizen in 2021. So why can’t Abdul get citizenship?

Secretary Mayorkas says our nation’s immigration techniques are “damaged.”

Properly, possibly they wouldn’t be if @JoeBiden didn’t ignore the border disaster!

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 15, 2022

Satan In The Particulars

Our authorities has a novel means of actually sticking it to individuals over technicalities. For instance, Sami-Ullah Safi labored for america navy, which suggests our authorities paid him for his companies.

Abdul labored for the Afghan navy, and whereas it was our nation that facilitated his coaching and it was us he fought with, he was not on our payroll. Thus, he isn’t considered the identical as his brother. 

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The Chief Working Officer of the Particular Operations Affiliation of America, Steve Patterson, has been looking for a means to assist individuals like Abdul:

“We’ve been taking a look at discovering paths to citizenship for them, trying on the federal degree, however there’s not as a lot power on Capitol Hill to get this stuff handed as we’d wish to see.”

Should you’ve by no means had the pleasure of serving with Particular Operations items, you don’t know simply how deep that bond goes. That household is tighter than marriages and bonds with their very own youngsters.

Abdul is one in every of them, one in every of us. Nonetheless, because it isn’t handy politically, he now faces potential deportation again to Afghanistan and undoubtedly a painful public execution.

BREAKING: An enormous migrant caravan of over 1,000 individuals crossed illegally into El Paso, TX final evening, making it the biggest single group we now have ever seen. Town of El Paso studies Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has launched a whole lot to metropolis streets. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ewUQX757Lt

— Invoice Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022

One Man, Craving To Breathe Free

Abdul’s story is extra than simply a couple of man fleeing for his life, hoping to construct a brand new life in a rustic that guarantees freedom and equity. As a substitute, it is a real-life instance of how the federal authorities shouldn’t be set as much as emulate our values however as an alternative is purposely damaged to learn those that care the least about our values.

At the moment, an estimated 1,600 unlawful immigrants are launched each day in El Paso, Texas. Over the 20 years we fought in Afghanistan, about 34,000 Afghans acquired particular immigration visas. 

In lower than a month, extra unlawful immigrants are set free on the streets of El Paso than Afghans who acquired visas who labored with us for over twenty years.

Senator Chuck Schumer introduced final month:

“Now greater than ever, we’re wanting staff…The one means we’re going to have an awesome future in America is that if we welcome and embrace immigrants.”

Now greater than ever, I’d say we’re wanting heroes like Abdul. However does Chuck care about Abdul and even the immigrants he claims to need to embrace? I’ll allow you to reply that query.

Sami stated of his brother’s emotions:

“He’s deeply dissatisfied. And he’s calling upon those that have been all the time telling him, ‘We’re preventing in opposition to frequent enemy. We’re preventing shoulder to shoulder.’ He’s calling upon those that have been calling him ‘battle buddy.’ He was not anticipating this conduct from United States officers in opposition to him. He was anticipating a hero’s welcome.”

Sadly, a hero’s welcome is what he obtained.

On this nation, 11% of the homeless inhabitants are veterans. On this nation, service members are on meals stamps.

On the identical time, the federal government pushes for pupil mortgage forgiveness for well-to-do faculty graduates. It makes it rain billions upon billions in far-off international locations within the identify of local weather change. 

We’ve got Homeless Veterans throughout Nation. pic.twitter.com/oT0nSB8Yxm

— TheWarehouseGirlMAC (@GirlWarehouse) December 16, 2022

If our authorities officers don’t care concerning the hundreds of homeless, hundreds of victims of crime and abuse, and hundreds of kids and ladies trafficked into our nation by means of our open border, will they care about one man who risked all the things to combat for his nation aspect by aspect with our personal after which risked all the things to come back to the land of the free and the house of the courageous?

Uncertain, battle buddy.