The Potential for an Afghan Adjustment Act
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Around 80,000 Afghans were relocated during the withdrawal, and many do not have a pathway to permanent citizenship here in the United States. To get a sense of those immigration challenges and the potential for congressional action on those issues, Bryce Klehm sat down with Shala Gafary, the Managing Attorney of Project: Afghan Legal Assistance at Human Rights First, and Jennifer Quigley, the Senior Director of Government Affairs at Human Rights First. They talked about the current legal status of those relocated persons in the United States, the challenges faced by those still in Afghanistan, and the potential passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act, a bill that could help alleviate some of those legal obstacles.
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| 1:03.7 | There's a tremendous amount of frustration, right? We're two years out from the Taliban |
| 1:08.7 | takeover of the government and we're still not seeing the level of relocations. That's |
| 1:15.9 | sort of the new terminology as opposed to evacuations out of Afghanistan or out of the third |
| 1:21.6 | countries that they've made their way to for safety. There's still a level of frustration |
| 1:27.6 | at the pace in which they have devoted the time and energy and resources to getting people |
| 1:35.4 | here to the United States and to safety. But there is a recognition that if it's going |
| 1:39.7 | to happen, it's going to be this administration who does it. You have to work with the administration |
| 1:46.5 | on those relocations and processing people and getting them here. There's no way around |
| 1:50.9 | that, right? We can't serve as refugee core officers or consular officers, right? The |
| 1:56.1 | administration is is going to have to do that work. |
| 1:58.9 | Ambrice Clem in this is the law fair podcast, August 31st, 2023. Yesterday marked the two |
| 2:06.3 | year anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Around 80,000 Afghans were relocated |
| 2:13.1 | during the withdrawal and many do not have a pathway to permanent citizenship here in |
| 2:18.1 | the United States. To get a sense of those immigration challenges and the potential for |
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