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Tell President Biden and Congress: Leave No One Behind
Posted on Aug 25 2021
For two decades, the U.S. Government has employed Afghan allies to serve alongside U.S. troops, diplomats, and other government employees as interpreters, translators, cultural advisors, drivers, and more. Because of their service to the U.S. mission, our allies’ lives and their families’ lives are at risk. Human rights defenders, women, LGTBQ+ people, and other at-risk groups are also at an almost certain threat of violence and persecution.
The emergency U.S. evacuation program offers their best chance to live. We must continue this evacuation past August 31. The United States set that deadline. The United States can extend it.
Call your Senators. Call your Congressional Representative. Contact the White House through this email form. Demand that the administration:
1) Continue the U.S. evacuation past August 31 to save the lives of our allies and of human rights defenders, women, LGTBQ+ people, and other at-risk groups.
2) Direct emergency action and funding to support expanded refugee resettlement for Afghans as they arrive in the United States.
Suggested message:
I’m urging you to take action to continue the emergency evacuation from Afghanistan and to swiftly provide critical supports including expedited visa processing and access to the refugee resettlement process for family members of U.S. government employees, U.S. government employees not covered by the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, and other at-risk populations such as human rights defenders, women, LGTBQ+ people, and others.
For more information, read ILCM Executive Director Veena Iyer’s statement here.