Evacuated Afghans Wait at US Bases
Approximately 11,000 evacuated Afghans wait from the safety of a U.S. base in central New Jersey, enduring a prolonged resettlement process.
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Approximately 11,000 evacuated Afghans wait from the safety of a U.S. base in central New Jersey, enduring a prolonged resettlement process.
The former interpreter for the U.S. Army counts himself among the lucky as an Afghan who managed to make it through frantic crowds outside the Kabul airport to board a military evacuation flight out of the country with little more than the clothes on his back.
The Department of Homeland Security and refugee resettlement agencies say they hope to have the Afghans off the bases and into American communities by Feb. 15.
More than three months after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, about 35,000 Afghans are still housed at six U.S. military installations
WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Afghans wait and worry at US bases after frantic evacuation