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Americans were promised a careful, thorough vetting of Afghans flown out of Kabul, but new reporting shows that promise collapsed under political pressure and chaos. According to a congressional memo summarized by multiple outlets, almost none of the roughly 82,000 people airlifted in August were fully vetted before being allowed into the United States.
The numbers are stunning and unacceptable: tens of thousands arrived without the multi-step interrogations and background checks our refugee system requires, and roughly three quarters were neither U.S. citizens nor legitimate Special Immigrant Visa holders. That isn’t a technicality — it’s a national security hole wide enough to drive a truck through, one created while officials were more concerned with optics than outcome.
How did this happen? The vetting reportedly devolved into database screening only, meaning officials accepted evacuees’ statements at face value and only pursued fuller checks if computer hits flagged a problem. That is screening, not vetting, and it’s ludicrous to pretend these shortcuts were anything other than reckless.
Republican lawmakers have rightly demanded answers and overdue accountability, pressing the administration for clear explanations about who made the call to bypass established procedures. When senators are asking for reports and briefings, it tells you the State Department and Homeland Security owe the American people more than platitudes.
The Biden team repeatedly promised evacuees would undergo “rigorous” checks before arriving on American soil, but those assurances ring hollow in light of what investigators uncovered. Promises from the podium cannot substitute for the hard work of security screening, and the American people deserve better than being told to trust a process that wasn’t followed.
This was not merely bureaucratic sloppiness; it was a predictable consequence of political haste and misplaced priorities. If your first instinct is to bring thousands of strangers into the country to score points, you have chosen politics over safety — and elected officials who enabled that choice must be held to account.
We should insist on immediate corrective action: suspend any further admissions until real vetting is conducted, move screening to secure third countries where the process can be properly executed, and demand an independent audit of the decisions that led to this fiasco. Patriots who love our country must not be timid about saying we will not gamble our communities and our children’s future for a headline or a talking point.
Hardworking Americans went to war and stood with interpreters and allies for decades; we have an obligation to bring those who truly earned our protection here — but only after doing it the right way. Call your representatives, demand transparency, and refuse to let political theater replace national security. America deserves prudence, competence, and the ironclad safety that comes from doing our duty to protect the homeland.
