{"id":117289,"date":"2021-09-06T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117289"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:30:20","slug":"state-department-delays-are-holding-up-private-evacuation-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117289","title":{"rendered":"State Department delays are holding up private evacuation out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States government may have stopped evacuation efforts for US citizens, and for green card holders. However, private rescue organizations continue to work to bring them home. The bureaucracy that is the State Department has delays and hurdles that must be cleared. This waiting time increases American exposure to Afghanistan related dangers.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

Clay told Fox News that his organization is “having problems getting permission” from the Biden State Department “to land on the return flight” from Afghanistan in a neighboring country.<\/p>\n

The State Department “is not allowing any private charters carrying refugees [to] land anywhere” in nearby countries if they are coming out of Afghanistan and is making different “excuses” as to why, such as pointing to the lack of air traffic controllers and radar issues, Clay told Fox News this week. The two other individuals separately involved in private evacuation efforts confirmed Clay’s account.<\/p>\n

“If we can get aircraft in and pick up people and bring them out, why can’t we take them to Doha to the refugee center or other refugee centers?” Clay remarked. “This makes no sense.”<\/p>\n

“We still have Americans we can get out,” he added.<\/p>\n

After making little to no progress with the State Department, Clay’s group turned to senators from both parties: Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have all sought to help PlanB and other organizations secure the approval they need to get the evacuees safely out of Afghanistan, organizers and Senate staffers told Fox News.<\/p>\n

Clay received word on Thursday that their flights out of Afghanistan would eventually receive approval following the State Department’s review of their manifest — a task that could take several days even as just the initial 800 names are subjected to the vetting process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has more of the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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