Afghanistan: America opens the reception of refugees

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David rohde is not angry with the Biden administration. The New Yorker journalist, who spent eight months in Taliban jails before managing to escape in 2009, has been moving heaven and earth for years to bring to the United States the person who helped him in his escape, as well as his family. But Tahir Luddin only received the green light from the US Embassy in Kabul to apply for a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) on Monday. Too late to go to the airport, at the risk of being arrested and beaten, even executed, at a Taliban checkpoint.

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Others have had better luck. Thousands of Afghans arrive on American territory by jumbo jet, and on tiptoe. Their first home? Fort Lee, Virginia, south of the regional capital Richmond, and soon two other communities with close ties to the military, Fort Bliss (Texas) and Fort McCoy (Wisconsin), according to Garry Reid, director of the Afghanistan Crisis Action Group …

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