Failure to Include Afghan Adjustment Act Represents a Mission Unfinished and a Promise Unfulfilled

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Might 11, 2022
Contact: Erin Taylor | etaylor@lirs.org | 267-250-8829

BALTIMORE, MD – In response to information that the U.S. Home of Representatives has left an Afghan Adjustment Act out of the Ukraine Supplemental, leaving tens of hundreds of Afghans with out a everlasting path to residence and security within the U.S., Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service stated:

“The Home’s failure to incorporate an Afghan Adjustment Act within the Ukraine Supplemental illustrates a tragic break with historic priority of how we’ve offered safety to different wartime evacuees. With out an adjustment to their standing, tens of hundreds of our Afghan allies and new neighbors face an unsure future. The authorized limbo Afghans discover themselves in is a serious supply of stress and completely unbefitting of the guarantees america made to guard them. We are able to and should do higher than this as a nation.

“Adjustment acts had been issued for Vietnamese allies after U.S. withdrawal, for Cubans fleeing the Castro regime, and for Kurdish allies from Iraq. We should not enable politics and fearmongering to get in the way in which of doing what veterans, Republicans, Democrats, advocates, and lots of different People know is true. The Senate should embody an adjustment act within the supplemental earlier than it votes.

“Our admirable assist for our neighbors in Ukraine clearly demonstrates the American capability to assist and welcome these fleeing conflict, violence, and persecution. We should lengthen that assist, too, to the tens of hundreds of Afghans we labored so laborious to deliver to security. Something much less would characterize a mission unfinished and a promise unfulfilled.”