Biden is simply lying when he says the law prevents him from letting thousands of Afghans, men and women who put their lives at risk helping American occupation forces and are now in imminent danger of being murdered, into the United States. cnn.com/2021/07/14/pol…
Trump just hated immigrants and said so. What Biden is doing is more sordid.
Democratic leaders seem to agree that:

1. These Afghan refugees will become US citizens
2. They helped Americans to such an extent that it put their own lives in danger
3. They are so dangerous they must be kept penned in on military bases in the interim
I can't think of a better way to broadcast weakness than to be this afraid of the people who helped us, in a part of the world where helping us could mean a death sentence
Let's remember that the people in question are a tiny minority of those we should be evacuating, right now, and welcoming into our country. They're just the ones who made it through the maze of applying for a special visa, the bureaucratic expression of America's moral cowardice

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Just add a soccer ball every 5 minutes until someone scores. Why is this hard.
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