Turkey pushes back at U.S. plan to resettle Afghans

Turkey has opened their doors to millions of Muslim people running from dictators in regional conflicts. I completely understand them saying, "No mas." Plus, asking in public is rude, if that was the intent here.

During a pandemic, there are additional challenges.

The US needs to be concentrating on getting the translators who helped US military in Afghanistan relocated to the USA ASAP. There shouldn't need to be any paperwork - just ask the soldiers who the translators were embedded with who should and shouldn't be on the fast list. Clearly, mandate COVID vaccinations for everyone over 12 if they leave Afghanistan. Inject the J&J vaccine when they arrive in the staging areas overseas.

Those 10K people and their families are at very high risk. How the US treats them will impact all future needs for translators in other actions around the world.

As for asking others to keep their borders open, I disagree. There's a pandemic and many people will be economic refugees. But each country needs to decide if and how they will allow any refugees entry. How many will Japan take? The US border facilities are full of kids who should be shipped back home to be with their families, not kept apart from them in the US.

Well this is an opportunity for the Biden administration to do the right thing.

Lets see if they can focus on one thing long enough to get it done.

100% support this effort to protect those Afghans who helped us.

US should resettle Afghan refugee in US and not other countries.