Bipartisan Group Of 46 Senators Urge Biden To Create A Humanitarian Category For Afghan Women

A radical of 46 Senators (43 Democrats and 3 Republicans) wrote to Biden to impulse him to make a peculiar humanitarian class for Afghan women leaders.

The Senators wrote:

We and our unit are receiving regular reports regarding the targeting, threatening, kidnapping, torturing, and assassinations of women for their enactment defending and promoting democracy, equality, higher education, and quality rights. While we welcomed the enlargement of the eligibility requirements for Special Immigrant Visas and the instauration of the Priority 2 class successful the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, we indispensable besides support those women who mightiness autumn done the cracks of the U.S. Government’s response.

We greatly admit your efforts to assistance prevention the lives of Afghans who person precocious U.S. and Afghan associated interests implicit the past generation, lasting for peace, democracy, and equality. We are each successful statement that we beryllium them our unqualified support.

The 3 Republican senators who joined with the Democrats were Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA).

Biden Should Make Getting Female Leaders Out Of Afghanistan A Priority

There are thousands of Americans that indispensable beryllium brought home, but these Afghan women are successful mortal jeopardy. History shows that the Taliban, which was 1 of the world’s worst regimes for abusing women the past clip that they were successful power, volition termination galore of these women erstwhile the US is gone.

Much has been rightly made of the destiny of interpreters and translators who worked with the US, but women successful adjacent much information than immoderate others.

It would beryllium large if Congress were successful league to walk authorities and beryllium a spouse to the medication astatine this time, but since the White House is connected their own, they request to marque it a precedence to springiness these women exile presumption and get them retired of Afghanistan.