The Biden administration had a habit of not properly vetting the Afghan nationals evacuated to America after the US pulled out of Afghanistan. A damning Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General audit issued in September 2022 detailed the extensive national security concerns stemming from this poor handling.
“The United States welcomed more than 79,000 Afghan evacuees between July 2021 and January 2022, as part of [Operation Allies Refuge (OAR)/Operation Allies Welcome (OAW],” the document reads. “After meeting with more than 130 individuals from the Department of Homeland Security, we determined DHS encountered obstacles to screen, vet, and inspect all Afghan evacuees.”
The likely consequences were not hard to calculate.
“As a result, DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities,” the audit stated.
That dry sentence was borne out in its full horror with the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, DC, by a Biden-era Afghan evacuee on November 26 of this year. One Guard member is dead, and the other is still clinging to life.
‘Questionable Names and Dates of Birth’
The Inspector General’s office reveals Biden’s Homeland Security was warned of the failed vetting at the same time that the importation of Afghan refugees into America was hitting a fever pitch.
“In January 2022, we issued DHS a Notice of Findings and Recommendations document notifying the Department of the urgent need to take action to address security risks of evacuees from Afghanistan who were admitted or paroled into the United States without sufficient identification documents to ensure proper screening and vetting,” the audit noted.
The entire process was always bound to be chaotic due to the primitive nature of Afghanistan as a nation. The fact that it was rushed into hyperdrive in the name of a “humanitarian” emergency made things far worse.
US Customs and Border Protection “admitted or paroled evacuees who had questionable names and dates of birth partly due to cultural differences,” the report relates. “It is customary in Afghanistan for some individuals to have only one name. It is not always part of the Afghan culture to record or know exact [dates of birth]. In Afghanistan, even though national legislation requires registration of children at birth, years of conflict decimated the administrative mechanisms and the social institutions supporting them.”
This was the climate in which tens of thousands of Third World foreigners were hustled into America by the Biden administration.
“One CBP official discussed how evacuees at the lily pads [temporary housing pending screening] did not always know their DOB, and without a verification document to cross-check against, the official simply entered the evacuee’s biographic information as told by the individual,” the audit continued. “For example, if an evacuee stated he/she was 20 years old, the DOB most likely assigned was January 1, 2001. Several CBP officials said they often had to rely on translators or interpreters to identify evacuees’ names and DOBs. Based on the cultural differences and questionable data in the biographic fields, it was challenging for DHS to fully screen and vet the evacuees.”
The safety of American citizens in their own hometowns was thus placed at the mercy of guesstimates in haphazardly filled-in government paperwork. How has that turned out?
Afghan Ticking Time Bomb Inside the Gates
“More than 5,000 Afghans brought to the US after American forces withdrew from the country got flagged for ‘national security’ issues, Department of Homeland Security data obtained by The New York Post reveals,” the paper reported November 29.
“In all, the feds uncovered ‘potential derogatory information’ on a total of 6,868 people who came from Afghanistan as part of President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in 2021,” The Post chronicles. “Of that number, 5,005 came up with a national security concern, while 956 people had ‘public safety’ concerns and 876 were flagged for fraud, according to the data.”
And that’s just what officials have uncovered. How much more is simply unknown due to a complete lack of accurate information on Afghan evacuees that goes far beyond not knowing their real names or actual dates of birth?
One thing seems clear for sure: more Afghan nationals now living in the US thanks to Joe Biden are going to pose a threat to Americans in the near future.
“Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, 30, a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Fort Worth, Texas, has been federally charged for threatening to build a bomb, conduct a suicide attack, and kill Americans and others, in a video shared on TikTok, X, and Facebook,” the Justice Department revealed in a December 2 press release. Alokozay was granted entry into the US during the Biden administration.
“According to the complaint, the video shows Alokozay angrily gesturing and speaking Dari, a language commonly spoken in Afghanistan, while interacting with at least two other males on a video call,” DOJ states. “Alozokay stated the Taliban were dear to him and that he came to the United States to kill those on the call. He also claimed he wanted to conduct a suicide attack on Americans. According to the complaint, Alokozay stated he was not afraid of deportation or getting killed.”
The Biden administration was warned about all of this by the DHS Inspector General in 2022. “DHS and CBP cannot be sure they properly screened, vetted, and inspected all evacuees. We found they paroled at least two individuals into the United States who may have posed a risk to national security and the safety of local communities and may have admitted or paroled more individuals of concern,” the OIG audit bluntly declared.
How did the Biden Homeland Security Department respond to these alarming warnings?
“DHS did not concur with our recommendations and did not provide an action plan to address them or better prepare for similar future events,” the OIG audit states.
