The State Department further did not confirm any specifics, saying that in order to protect their privacy, the authorities were not in a position to offer additional information. Blinken even said that the Taliban were aware of their departure and they did not impede it. Separately, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that the Americans were in “good condition”. He informed that he had spoken with the woman “multiple times,” including before and after she exited Afghanistan. embassies eerily similar in both crisis evacuations, but it turns out that the same exact helicopters may have been used in 1975 and now in Kabul. Not only were the images of helicopters flying from U.S. Mullin has been assisting an American non-profit-funded group of former special forces, military, contractors and others who are working to get Americans and Special Immigrant Visa holders out of Afghanistan. President Biden’s tragically avoidable ‘Saigon Moment’ in Afghanistan may be a closer parallel than initially thought. Markwayne Mullin, informed that the evacuees are - a woman and her three children - from Amarillo, Texas. The official further also confirmed that these are the first four Americans that the US has facilitated in this manner since the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. While speaking to CNN, an official said that the US Embassy greeted the Americans as they crossed the border into the third country. The Post regrets the error.The US State Department on September 6 informed that the country has evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan, marking the first US-facilitated overland evacuation since the pullout from the war-ravaged nation. It actually rejected two out of three applicants. With additional reporting by Tom Blackwell, Christopher Nardi and The Canadian PressĮditor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that a resettlement program for Afghans approved two out of three applicants between 20. “There was this huge, huge over-promise (by the federal government) and a massive under-delivery,” said the volunteer, who asked to withhold his name because of his work with government officials. Mendicino has called Canada’s actions in Afghanistan “nothing short of miraculous.”Ī volunteer with a non-governmental organization working to get people out of Afghanistan told the Post that endless red tape hampered the ability of those to get out. By Thursday, the total was around 3,700.Įarlier this week, Sajjan said the government took “appropriate” and “quick” action to evacuate people. On Wednesday, the government said roughly 2,700 people had been evacuated, 1,447 of them between Sunday and Tuesday. Officials were unable to say this week how many permanent residents, Canadian citizens and Afghan allies remain in the country.ĭaniel Mills, assistant deputy minister with Canada’s immigration department, said visa applications for Afghan citizens who applied for them are still being processed. “Instead we waited until the 11th hour when the military was required, and we never had enough time or the right resources in order to bring the volume of Afghans that have a rightful claim to come to Canada to safety,” Rusk said. If Canada had begun its evacuations earlier, said Rusk, they could have used commercial airlines to get people out while flights were still operating. After Canada announced its last flight out of Afghanistan, many cooks, guards and translators who had helped Canadians were left stranded. Taliban forces block the roads around the Kabul airport, while a woman passes by, August 27, 2021. Rusk said Canadians are owed an explanation about why the government was “so late and relatively under-resourced” to help those who are being targeted by the Taliban. Over the course of what ministers said was “the largest airlift in history,” Canada managed to get some 3,700 Canadians, permanent residents, vulnerable Afghans and citizens of other countries out of Afghanistan, between Aug. “There were challenges … it was really political leadership that even got a program established to begin with,” the source said. When it became clear such a program was needed, the source said, ministers pushed hard to get it done. “The one offs worked, people came, Afghan refugees claimed asylum,” the source said.
“Canada has been a safe haven for Afghan refugees for years.”Ī senior government source told the Post on Friday that prior to the last few months, there hadn’t been considerable demand for a mass refugee strategy for those who had worked for Canada. “We put them into operation very quickly … over the course of the last number of weeks,” Mendicino said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The Coalition has engaged with the Administration and civil society to facilitate this evacuation and resettlement of at-risk Afghans in the U.S. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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