{"id":53808,"date":"2014-07-13T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53808"},"modified":"2014-07-13T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T13:05:38","slug":"state-department-runs-out-of-visas-for-afghan-terps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53808","title":{"rendered":"State Department runs out of visas for Afghan ‘terps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that the State Department is running out of visas for Afghan interpreters, you know, those folks who we owe because they forsake their homes and families to help us in the war against terror;<\/p>\n

About 6,000 applicants are in the pipeline, including about 300 whose cases have reached the final stage of the process. Congress set a cap of 3,000 visas for 2014. The State Department expects to have issued that many visas within days, well ahead of the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe owe these people this opportunity to be out of harm\u2019s way,\u201d Heather A. Higginbottom, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said in an interview. \u201cThis program and our commitment to them is incredibly important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The State Department\u2019s current predicament is to a large degree one of its own making. The visa program was beset for years by interagency debates, security concerns and bureaucratic processing delays. In the fall of 2012, for instance, the State Department had granted just 32 visas among more than 5,700 applicants for the immigration pathway, which Congress established in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, but more than 50,000 illegals who are stacked up along our border aren’t all that worried, because they don’t have to wait for the broke-dick bureaucracy to give them the green light. Of course, we’re rushing for the exits in Afghanistan and leaving our allies to the designs of the Taliban this administration did their best to avoid killing.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State John F. Kerry demanded a thorough review of the program last year and asked his staff to find ways to streamline it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome deserving people were simply falling through the cracks,\u201d Kerry wrote in an op-ed column in the Los Angeles Times last month in which he acknowledged the program\u2019s shortcomings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, then, the problem is fixed now. John Kerry has made noises about it. Problem solved. The Vietnamese scouts and interpreters we left behind ended up in reeducation camps if they weren’t murdered outright, but, John Kerry was too busy feathering his nest back then to notice. This time it can be laid at his stank-ass hippie feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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