A local advocacy group is calling on the White House to evacuate eligible refugees before withdrawing the remaining U.S. troops.
By Charles Woodman, Patch Staff
(PATCH) SEATTLE — A local advocacy group is calling on President Joe Biden to fulfil his promise to the Afghan people, and to help all eligible refugees escape Afghanistan before withdrawing the remaining U.S. troops in Kabul.
CAIR Washington, a Seattle-based Muslim civil rights organization and the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says over the past week it has received hundreds of requests for help from Americans with families in Afghanistan and people in Afghanistan with ties to Washington.
However, they say the current political situation has made it extremely difficult to help those in need of aid.
“It’s been absolutely overwhelming and deeply disheartening,” said Brianna Auffray, Legal and Policy Manager at CAIR Washington. “Out of the hundreds of people we’re actively working with, we’ve only been able to get one family aboard a flight.”
