By the US State Department’s own numbers, of the Afghanis that worked with us and were eligible to be evacuated out of Afghanistan, the majority of them were just left behind.
From www.cnn.com
2021-09-01 17:49:00
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The official said they did not have a specific count of the Afghan Special Immigrant (SIV) applicants and family members who did not make it onto evacuation flights, “but I would say it’s the majority of them, just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.”
There were at least 20,000 SIV applicants in the pipeline prior to the US withdrawal, and the State Department has not provided a specific count of how many of the 123,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan fall into that category.
The State Department official told reporters that in early stages of the evacuation, the US tried to prioritize access for late-stage SIV applicants and other categories, but said the effort was unsuccessful because “every credential we tried to provide electronically was immediately disseminated to the widest possible pool.”
“Every day was a constant improvisational effort to figure out what was going to work that day,” they said. “As we got deeper into the process, we…
