What’s at Stake: Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies | Abdul Sami and Matiullah, two Afghan SIV Recipients

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The issue of keeping our promise to our Afghan allies is personal to me. My interpreter, Raqman, made the ultimate sacrifice on the day I was injured. I survived, he didn’t.

While Raqman cannot be here, two Afghan SIV recipients, Abdul Sami and Matiullah, join me to discuss the threats and perils Afghan linguist face and the difficulty of coming to the U.S. as Special Immigrant Visa recipients. Hear their moving story and help us get our Afghan’s allies to safety.

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0:24.0	Welcome back guys.
0:25.0	This is sort of an emergency session because I want to bring light to a really important issue.
0:31.0	And the issue is special immigrant visas for our interpreters that are still stuck in Afghanistan or Iraq, everywhere we've been.
0:38.0	And I don't think, like, if you've been in the military, you understand this issue very well.
0:43.0	But most people have not been in the military.
0:45.0	And don't know why this is important.
0:48.0	And first I'm going to tell you why it's really personal for me.
0:55.0	When I was blown up in 2012, the reason I was blown up was because one of our interpreters was blown up in front of me.
1:03.0	And he's the one who stepped on the IED.
1:06.0	An IED that was maybe a little bit bigger than normal for what we were used to.
1:11.0	A lot of times these things just kind of take off a leg or two.
1:15.0	This one absolutely destroyed them.
1:18.0	Every limb was gone right away.
1:21.0	He survived for a little while longer.
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