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Brutal what we did to our Afghan allies by ndsapper
With a couple others, I was able to help one interpreter and his family escape (at great risk to themselves and the loss of everything they owned). They are in Colorado now and, because he's a hard-working guy, are doing okay. Many of my friends have similar stories.
He, like Wais' dad, waited three years to have a Special Immigrant Visa processed. It eventually did, after the fall of Afghanistan, after Abdul escaped to Pakistan, and after the help of multiple aid agencies that sprung up at that time to fill a hole our State Department created.
This bill is a small investment into folks who have been vetted through mutual sacrifice.