White House Weighs Evacuating Afghan Workers

Bloomberg: “White House national security aides have held several meetings about the issue in recent days to trade ideas, discussing options including a mass evacuation of thousands of people to a third country where they could be processed and brought to the U.S.”

“The likeliest scenarios for the U.S. would involve extracting Afghans through the existing special immigrant visas program, which has a long backlog, and allowing Afghan interpreters to seek refugee status … The White House is getting closer to presenting options to advocates and members of Congress impatient with the silence from President Joe Biden … But with U.S. forces due to fully depart Afghanistan by Sept. 11, there’s little time left.”