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For Immediate Release  
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841 
Aug. 15, 2021 

Situation in Afghanistan Underscores Humanitarian Crisis for our Afghan
Allies

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - News of the collapse of Afghanistan's
government today underscores the urgent situation Afghan allies face -
and the fact that slow-moving U.S. efforts to rescue our Afghan allies,
who have assisted the United States over the past twenty years in
Afghanistan, has turned into a full-blown humanitarian crisis.

"The Biden administration's blind eye to Afghan nationals is a stain
on the United States," said

**Ali Noorani, President and CEO of the National Immigration
Forum.**"What is astonishing is the utter lack of planning by the
administration to develop and execute a plan to protect the tens of
thousands of Afghan nationals who worked with our military. Men, women,
children whose only crime was to help our troops will be killed as a
result. The administration needs to immediately evacuate as many SIV
applicants as possible - as well as their families and others eligible
for protection - to Guam, to the U.S. or to another U.S. territory.

"Furthermore, the U.S. needs to rally the international community to
prepare for what will likely be a massive surge of Afghan refugees. It
is past time to see, with both eyes, what has happened as a result of
this failure."

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