REMINDER: Obama/Biden Paid $5 Billion & Released 5 Taliban Prisoners For Deserter Bowe Bergdahl

Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer, author of The Last Line, and Ret. Col. David Hunt claimed that the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap was a terrible deal. Lt. Colonel Shaffer claimed that the Obama administration paid $5 billion and released five top Taliban Gitmo detainees in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

Obama celebrated the release of deserter Bowe Bergdahl with a White House press conference in the Rose Garden in May 2014.

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, who was part of the negotiations, told Bill O’Reilly the US paid out $5 billion and traded five top Taliban detainees for Bergdahl. He later was on with Judge Janine.

Here was a video from an interview with Judge Janine:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/reminder-obama-biden-paid-5-billion-released-5-taliban-prisoners-deserter-bowe-bergdahl-video/

Biden White House Issues Emergency Memorandum of $500 Million Refuge Migration Assistance for Afghans

https://thedcpatriot.com/biden-white-house-issues-emergency-memorandum-of-500-million-refuge-migration-assistance-for-afghans/

Why Was The National Guard Hiring Internment/Resettlement Specialists Last Week?

The National Guard is hiring Internment/Resettlement Specialists.

Let that sink in.

Editor’s note: the National Guard removed the job listing. However, we have added screenshots (see after post) to validate. The Organic Prepper acquired this link from INDEED posting this position for the National Guard on 08/16/2021. Screenshots after post.

With Biden’s sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan, you might think that is the reason for the resettlement aspects of these listings … except they appeared BEFORE the withdrawal.

What does an Internment/Resettlement Specialist do?

According to the National Guard website:

OVERVIEW

Internment/resettlement specialists are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility.

JOB DUTIES

Supervise confinement and detention operations

Provide external security to facilities

Provide counseling/guidance to individual prisoners within a rehabilitative program

Manage and maintain prisoners/internees and their programs

SKILLS LEARNED:

Military laws and jurisdictions

Self-defense and use of firearms

Interpersonal communications skills

Search/restraint and custody/control procedures

WHY is there a need for Internment/Resettlement Specialists?

Job position listings for such **WERE available in the following locations:

Lancaster, California

Washington DC

Denver, Colorado

Edinburgh, Indiana

Monticello, Minnesota

Parkville, Maryland

Asheville, North Carolina

Auburn, New York

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Rapid City, South Dakota

**Either the National Guard very quickly filled those positions, or someone is attempting to hide something. The links now all state: ZERO JOBS FOUND. Below is a screenshot of the listing for Lancaster, Ca. when it was still available.

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/08/why-was-the-national-guard-hiring-internment-resettlement-specialists-last-week.html

“You Will Not Pin this Sh*t on Me” – VP Kamala Harris Refused to Face the Country as Afghanistan Fell

VP Harris refused to address the nation on Sunday about the mess in Afghanistan.

According to Becker News:

Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly did not want any part of facing the music on Sunday after the catastrophic collapse of Afghanistan. The U.S. humiliation on the world stage set off public demands to hear from the president; but in the absence of the Commander-in-Chief, any White House explanation about the disastrous finale in a two-decades-long war would have sufficed.

According to multiple reports, Harris was asked to address the American people on Sunday about the unraveling situation in the war-torn country, but refused. As the Taliban threatened the lives of thousands of Americans and allies in Kabul, pressure mounted on the White House to look the people in the eye and explain what happened. Yet, no one did.

Harris has poll numbers that are some of the worse for a Vice President since the early 1970’s and this was before Afghanistan fell apart.

But Harris in April took credit for helping with the US plans to turn Afghanistan into a nightmare:

Vice President Kamala Harris said she played a major role in crafting the Biden administration’s plan in April to quickly withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan.

Harris confirmed that she was the last person in the room shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he had ordered all U.S. military personnel to withdraw from the Middle Eastern nation by Sept. 11, 2021 in an April interview with CNN. The vice president also commended Biden for the decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan.

Harris was not taking any credit for the fiasco in Afghanistan this weekend as she reportedly refused to address the nation. What a mess the US is in when illegitimate candidates try to run things. This is a total mess.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/will-not-pin-sht-vp-kamala-harris-refused-face-country-afghanistan-fell/

Jake Sullivan Presides Over Yet Another Foreign Policy Disaster

The Forrest Gump of American decline?

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is at the center of yet another U.S. foreign policy disaster. During the Obama administration, in his role as a top aide to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and then-vice president Joe Biden, the highly credentialed wunderkind presided over some of the most humiliating failures in the history of American foreign policy.

Sullivan's extensive experience as an architect of American failure in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Iran, and Myanmar, plus the fact that White House press secretary Jen Psaki is mysteriously out of the office, made him a natural choice to defend the Biden administration's handling of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

"It is certainly the case [that] the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated," Sullivan said Monday during an interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie, who also asked about President Joe Biden's assessment that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was "highly unlikely" and "there's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States," as there was in Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.

Fact check: False. Kimberley Motley, an international human-rights attorney who has worked in Afghanistan for more than a decade, described the situation in the country as a "nightmare" that was "like Saigon on steroids."

Sullivan was unable to muster a compelling response. "To be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years," he said as the network rolled footage of Taliban militants streaming into Kabul.

Perhaps the 44-year-old Sullivan has grown weary of presiding over epic failures. Despite being considered one of the most brilliant foreign policy experts of his generation, Sullivan's résumé is littered with embarrassing debacles, including both of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaigns. Afghanistan is merely the most recent example.

In 2011, as a top adviser to then-secretary Clinton, Sullivan helped orchestrate the "kinetic military action" in Libya. Even though the intervention resulted in the death of dictator Muammar Qaddafi, it is widely viewed as a failure. The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was assassinated during the Benghazi terrorist attacks in 2012, and the country would eventually become a haven for Islamic State militants.

Less than a month before Stevens was killed, Sullivan was among the team of experts advising then-president Barack Obama on the escalating civil war in Syria. Obama warned Bashar al-Assad, the Russian-backed dictator, that the use of chemical weapons was a "red line" that would "change my calculus" regarding U.S. military action against the regime.

Assad crossed the red line on multiple occasions, and the United States responded by taking negligible action to deter the slaughter of civilians. Assad remained in power, Russia flexed its military muscle, and the Islamic State established a caliphate in northeast Syria, wreaking havoc in Iraq as well.

During an interview with the New Yorker in 2019, Sullivan said he considered it "a great regret of mine" that "we were not able to more effectively play a role in stopping hundreds of thousands of people from dying in Syria and millions and millions more losing their homes."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/jake-sullivan-disaster/

FLASHBACK: Biden National Security Adviser Caught-Up in Clinton Email-Benghazi Scandal

https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/biden-nsa-clinton-email-scandal/

Biden regime discusses setting up highway checkpoints to mandate vaccines for interstate travel across the United States

Fake “president” Joe Biden wants only people who have been “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) with one of Donald “father of the vaccine” Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” injections to be allowed to travel across state lines in the United States.

Since too many Americans are still refusing to roll up their sleeves and get jabbed, Pedo Joe wants to make life prohibitively difficult for them in the hopes that they will comply with taking the experimental gene therapy shots, which are spreading the “Delta” variant like wildfire.

In the past several weeks, Hunter’s dad has forced millions of federal workers to permanently alter their DNA in order to remain employed – all to “save lives,” of course. He has also met with business leaders in the private sector to push them to do the same.

Many are resisting, though, which is really upsetting the Biden regime. Since the incentives are not working as planned, the next attempt will be to tyrannize the “unvaccinated” so they will be more likely to comply out of coercion.

Dementia Joe is also aggressively pushing face masks, particularly on young schoolchildren who all across the country, mostly in “blue” areas, are being told they must restrict their breathing for eight hours a day in order to “flatten the curve.”

“To the mayors, school superintendents, educators, local leaders who are standing up to the governors politicizing mask protection for our kids: thank you,” Biden stumbled through a speech that was prepared for him in large font so he could read it.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2021/08/17/biden-regime-discusses-setting-up-highway-checkpoints-to-mandate-vaccines-for-interstate-travel-across-the-united-states/

WashPo's Jennifer Rubin: Whites Must Accept That a 'Demographic Tide' is 'Washing Over Them,' Admit America Was 'Never Theirs'

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has transitioned seamlessly in the span of a few months from insisting the Great Replacement is a "myth" to praising it as a demographic fact worthy of celebration.

Back in April, Rubin said "right-wing media stars" had "imbibed" a "'replacement' myth":

Just four months later in August, Rubin said the 2020 Census showing the white population in America had declined for the first time in our nation's history and whites were rapidly becoming a minority was "fabulous news."

"Now we need to prevent minority White rule," Rubin exclaimed.

She followed her comments up with an article published Sunday insisting that whites accept that a "demographic and cultural tide" is "washing over them" and this country was "never 'theirs.'"

From Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post, "The census reminds us America isn’t static. The GOP needs to deal with it." (HT: Steve Sailer):

The 2020 Census shows that while Whites remain the largest ethnicity group in the United States, the demographic decreased by 8.6 percent over the past decade. […]

America is never static. […] Indeed, that is the essence of America – a country not defined by racial or religious identity.

That reality has, of course, freaked out a significant share of White Christians who do not see "their America" as predominate. It was never "theirs" to begin with, and the assumption that something is amiss if White Christians are not in charge is the essence of white supremacy and Christian nationalism. It is also fundamentally un-American; our country is defined, as President Biden rightly says, by an "idea."

It is easy, then, to understand why a political party based increasingly on its appeal to White Christians has adopted so many anti-American traits. […]

The GOP is so dependent on the right-wing media generator of White angst and resentment, and so fearful they will lose their grip among Whites, that they have chosen instead to try to hold back the demographic and cultural tide washing over them.

[…] However, unless and until Americans in rural areas demand responsible governance, embrace the true "idea" of America and reject the temptation of racism and authoritarianism, little will change.

In the meantime, urban Americans, who constitute a greater share of the population than ever before, will lose patience with anti-democratic techniques (e.g., the filibuster, voter suppression) designed to give rural Whites disproportionate power. Demography may not be destiny, but it brings the weaknesses of American democracy into focus.

As I noted last week, Rubin expressed that her dream for the US is for "hard-working Latin American" illegal immigrants to replace "contemptible Republican cowards" in order to "enhance America's greatness."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62472

Gates Foundation Partnered With ‘Socialist’ Internet Group Running China’s COVID-19 Propaganda Operation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnered with a self-described “socialist” internet foundation run by the branch of the Chinese Communist Party spearheading its digital campaign to censor factual narratives and push fraudulent information about COVID-19.

The two foundations inked a memorandum of understanding in 2015, pledging cooperation in areas including “public health”:

According to the cooperation memorandum of understanding, the two parties will rely on new technologies such as the Internet to promote pragmatic cooperation in the fields of charity, public health, and international development, and work together to improve the quality of life of the poor and promote poverty reduction in developing countries.

The China Internet Development Foundation (CIDF) operates under the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Civil Affairs and is managed by the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Given its close relationship to the Chinese Communist Party, CIDF’s charter pledges to “adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”

“Consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core in ideological and political actions, and earnestly fulfill the historical mission of building a network power to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” are among the foundation’s other objectives.

“The Foundation adheres to the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China and, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, establishes an organization of the Communist Party of China, carries out party activities, and provides necessary conditions for the activities of the party organization,” the group’s charter adds.

The CIDF also openly admits to “practicing the core values of socialism.”

CIDF’s oversight body, the Cyberspace Administration of China, also played a critical role in deploying Chinese bot armies on social media platforms to spread propaganda about the origins and severity of COVID-19.

In addition to controlling thousand-person legions online, the body was also responsible for dictating pro-government editorial lines of Chinese state-run media outlets regarding COVID-19 stories.

“All Cyberspace Administration bureaus must pay heightened attention to online opinion, and resolutely control anything that seriously damages party and government credibility and attacks the political system,” reveals a government memo obtained by ProPublica.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/gates-foundation-partnered-with-socialist-china-internet-foundation/

Trudeau announces he consulted with Hillary Clinton about Afghanistan crisis

Speaking on day three of the election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the media that he discussed the situation in Afghanistan with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Delivering remarks from a campaign stop in Markham, Ontario, the prime minister said he spoke to Clinton last night — just a day after the Afghan capital Kabul was captured by the Taliban — about the challenges now faced by women and girls in the country.

🚨Trudeau consulted with Hillary Clinton about Afghanistan.🚨

Why would he talk to HER? Did no-one in the Biden administration take his phone calls? So weird. Maybe she can give him some hard lessons from Benghazi that we can avoid in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/fYbOSBilOG

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) August 17, 2021

“I also spoke last night with former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton,” Trudeau stated, adding that Clinton “shares our concern for Afghan women and girls.” The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee welcomed Canada's efforts, Trudeau said, “and urged Canada to continue our work.”

The press conference also signalled a quick shift in policy towards the Taliban for Trudeau's government.

Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said yesterday during an appearance on CBC that the government would be taking a “wait and see” approach to dealing with the Taliban, who have announced their intent to form the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after securing the country's capital.

Today, in their first press conference since seizing control of Kabul, Taliban leadership explained that they were “committed to the rights of women within the framework of Sharia.”

Last night, the Conservative Party declared that a government led by Erin O'Toole would not recognize the legitimacy of a Taliban-led Afghan government. The Liberal Party quickly followed suit today, with Trudeau announcing during the same Markham press conference that his government would also not recognize the Taliban regime.

https://www.rebelnews.com/trudeau_announces_he_consulted_with_hillary_clinton_about_afghanistan_crisis

Canadian Armed Forces confirms mandatory COVID vaccines

The Canadian Armed Forces have confirmed to Rebel News that COVID-19 vaccines will be required for all members, with undetermined “accommodation or alternative measures” reserved for members who are “unable to be vaccinated”.

Rebel News reached out to the CAF on Friday after publishing an email that had allegedly been sent to service members.

Here's the response we received from the Department of National Defence:

Q1&2. Is the email authentic? To whom was it sent?

In response to your first two questions, we cannot confirm at this time the authenticity of the text cited. However, we can confirm that we have released internal communications and published on the CAF/DND website information about proof of vaccination for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.

Q3. Will vaccinations for service members be mandatory?

In light of the announcement made August 13 by the Government of Canada, COVID-19 vaccination will be required for CAF members. For those few who are unable to be vaccinated, accommodation or alternative measures may be determined in each situation, to protect broader public health by reducing the risk of COVID-19. As further details unfold, they will be communicated.

CAF members continue to show their dedication in the fight against COVID-19. The uptake rate of the COVID-19 vaccine that was, until the recent announcement, voluntary, has been very high amongst CAF members, with approximately 90% of those eligible having received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine as of August 2021. This high uptake rate, coupled with continued public health measures like distancing, activity restrictions, hand washing and masking, has helped ensure CAF members are helping to keep infection rates down.

CAF members who receive a COVID-19 vaccination at a CAF vaccination clinic are provided with proof of vaccination either directly in their member vaccine booklet, or a card or record sheet, which includes the type of any vaccine administered, the date it was provided and other pertinent details. Members can show these documents if asked to prove their vaccination status.

The CAF is working closely with federal, provincial and territorial partners in the development of a national proof of vaccination document standard in order to ensure that CAF members have a document that will be accepted across the country regardless of the jurisdiction. In the meantime, public health officials in all Canadian jurisdictions are aware of the appearance of the CAF vaccination document (i.e., vaccine booklet or other clinic-issued document) and to accept it as proof of vaccination for CAF members. The proof of vaccination document will meet a standard agreed to by federal, provincial and territorial partners. This is important to ensure compatibility with other jurisdictions. It will contain a standard set of data about the individual and their vaccination status, such as the vaccine brand and date administered, and the person’s name and date of birth so it can be confirmed as corresponding to that individual.

https://www.rebelnews.com/canadian_armed_forces_confirms_mandatory_covid_vaccines

Jury Convicts Registered Sex Offender for Using Facebook to Conspire to Produce Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-registered-sex-offender-using-facebook-conspire-produce-child-pornography

PEDO BUN 17 August 21

Golden Valley Sex Offender Sentenced to More Than 22 Years in Prison for Transportation of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/golden-valley-sex-offender-sentenced-more-22-years-prison-transportation-child

Ex-Naval petty officer admits distributing child pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/ex-naval-petty-officer-admits-distributing-child-pornography

2 Tallahassee residents get federal sentences after Operation Stolen Innocence arrests

https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/2-tallahassee-residents-get-federal-sentences-after-operation-stolen-innocence-arrests

Six arrests made in child sex trafficking operation during Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/six-arrests-made-in-sex-trafficking-operation-during-sturgis-motorcycle-rally/article_bf206be9-a9b9-5e76-950f-1fd651f8726f.html

Seven defendants indicted on federal charges in drug-trafficking conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/seven-defendants-indicted-federal-charges-drug-trafficking-conspiracy

Former U.S. Golf Association Employee Charged With Embezzling Over $3 Million in U.S. Open Tickets Over Seven Years

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-us-golf-association-employee-charged-embezzling-over-3-million-us-open-tickets

Counterfeit DEA and FBI Badges Stopped by Chicago CBP

CHICAGO— U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) officers at the Chicago International Mail Branch (IMF) recently seized several packages all arriving from China that contained counterfeit Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) badges.Badge

CBP seized these badges on August 13 and 15. This isn’t the first time CBP has seen counterfeit federal law enforcement badges. They have seen counterfeit U.S. Marshall badges and other knock-off law enforcement badges. In all, CBP seized eight DEA badges and one FBI badge. All the parcels were destined for locations across the U.S.

“These counterfeit badges could have led to disastrous consequences if our officers had not found them,” said LaFonda Sutton-Burke, Director, Field Operations-Chicago. “Criminal organizations could have used these badges for their illicit activity under the guise of federal agents. Our CBP officers were able to identify these very realistic counterfeits and stop them from reaching their destinations.”

“It could be a serious security issue,” said Shane Campbell, Area Port Director – Chicago. “Used nefariously, a fake badge can be a danger to the public and can harm the public's trust in law enforcement.”

CBP Officers coordinate findings with CBP’s Fraudulent Document Analysis Unit, Homeland Security Investigations and other federal partners in an effort to combat this illicit activity.

CBP routinely conducts inspection operations on arriving and departing international flights and intercepts narcotics, weapons, currency, prohibited agriculture products, counterfeit goods, and other illicit items at our nation’s 328 international ports of entry.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/counterfeit-dea-and-fbi-badges-stopped-chicago-cbp

Australia is LOST - Report: Kids Ushered Into Stadium For Jabs, Police Making Arrests

https://rumble.com/vlbgad-australia-is-lost-report-kids-ushered-into-stadium-for-jabs-police-making-a.html

Las Vegas Raiders mandate vaccines for home games, offer to jab fans in the parking lot before games — then they can enter with masks

The Las Vegas Raiders announced this week that fans will be required to provide proof of vaccination on their cellphones in order to attend home games, becoming the first team in the National Football League to implement such a mandate.

Furthermore, in one of the stranger addendums to a vaccine mandate policy yet, the organization offered to give unvaccinated fans a jab in the parking lot on their way in. Those fans then would be permitted entry but would need to wear a mask during the event.

In a news release issued Monday, the team said that fans will be required to display their vaccination using "CLEAR's free mobile app and Health Pass feature." The policy will go into effect ahead of the team's regular-season opener against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 13.

Further details regarding the mobile app program and the on-site vaccination initiative were scheduled to be outlined during a news conference Tuesday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium.

The new rule was implemented in response to a state directive regarding large events issued by Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak. On Monday, Sisolak announced a health advisory change for large event organizers that allows them to host a mask-free event so long as everyone in attendance is vaccinated against the coronavirus.

"Health and safety has always been our number one priority," Raiders owner Mark Davis said in a statement. "After consultation with Governor Sisolak and other community leaders, this policy ensures that we will be able to operate at full capacity without masks for fully vaccinated fans for the entire season."

In May, the Raiders announced a policy requiring all full-time staff in both the football and business operations to be fully vaccinated against the virus. Shortly after, Allegiant Stadium's management company, ASM, implemented a vaccine mandate for full-time staff, as well.

It remains to be seen if more NFL teams will follow in the Raiders' footsteps as the season approaches. Last year during the pandemic, fans were largely barred from attending games until later in the season when certain teams opened up stadiums with extremely limited capacity.

Vaccines have been a controversial subject since the start of training camp when the league announced stringent health protocols intended to make life more miserable for unvaccinated players as part of an effort to encourage vaccinations.

In response, several players — including Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and Buffalo Bills slot receiver Cole Beasley — expressed outrage at the rules.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/vegas-raiders-mandate-vaccines-for-fans

NatSec Advisor Jake Sullivan: Joe Biden Has NOT Spoken with Any Other World Leaders Since Afghanistan Fell to the Taliban

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan gave a press briefing on Tuesday as Joe Biden continues to hide at Camp David.

Sullivan spun like a top as he tried to justify Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that put thousands Americans in danger.

“Has the president spoken to any other world leaders since Kabul fell to the Taliban” a CNN reporter asked Sullivan.

“[Biden] has not yet spoken with any other world leaders,” Sullivan said.

This is after Sullivan insisted Joe Biden worked throughout the entire weekend.

Biden hasn’t spoken to any other world leaders because he doesn’t have the mental faculties to carry out his duties as the Commander-in-Chief.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/natsec-advisor-jake-sullivan-joe-biden-not-spoken-world-leaders-since-afghanistan-fell-taliban-video/

https://twitter.com/MLiamMcCollum/status/1427658106054406149

The Taliban spokesman got a question about freedom of speech and he said the question should be asked to US companies like Facebook who claim to promote it while still censoring

https://twitter.com/RealTalibanNews/status/1427717074907025409

The Taliban has pardoned all opposition — eliminating legal definition of refugee status for Afghan migrants

No fucking way

https://twitter.com/PopulistAPU/status/1427167426484002818

Gavin Newsom Welcomes Afghan Refugees to California: ‘We’re a State of Refuge’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday said the Golden State would welcome Afghan refugees in the wake of the Taliban retaking their warn-torn country following the Biden administration’s badly botched withdrawal of U.S. forces.

“We’re a state of refuge,” Newsom stated as he addressed the issue of refugees during a “Vote No” recall rally in Northern California, ABC 7 first reported. “I’m proud of the fact over the last decade California has taken in more refugees than any other state in America, and I’m proud of the fact a disproportionate number of Afghani refugees are here in Northern California, not just here in the south, but also up in Sacramento County.

“We’re already working in terms of a lot of those refugees coming in and working with CBOs and non-profit organizations to make sure that they feel welcome and celebrated as members of our community,” the governor added.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) concurred with Newsom’s remarks, saying: “The governor is right, we have always stepped forward to welcome new Americans into our country and we’re stronger for it.”

Department of Defense officials said Tuesday that possibly thousands of Afghan refugees may be sent to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, for processing, according to the Associated Press.

Afghans are scrambling to find ways to escape after the Taliban overran their country over the last week. The Taliban initiated the blitz with U.S. troops weeks away from the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline.

Garry Reid, director of the Department of Defense’s Afghanistan Crisis Action Group, told reporters Monday that the U.S. Army is working to set up reception centers for Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy and Fort Bliss in Texas. He said the Army is preparing to receive as many as 22,000 refugees at the two bases as well as at Fort Lee in Virginia.

Fort McCoy spokeswoman Tonya Townsell told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday that the base, located between Tomah and Sparta, has been notified it will receive refugees and is prepared to house them in soldiers’ barracks as well as provide them with food and medical care.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/17/gavin-newsom-welcomes-afghan-refugees-to-california-were-a-state-of-refuge/

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