Good day all. Since the Fall of Kabul and the “Completion” of the Biden Bug Out, stories have been coming out of Afghanistan of Americans being trapped and desperately trying to get out, and private groups going in to rescue them.
This is the story of one family who were abandoned by direct order of the Maladministration of Bumbles Dementia and how a private group saved them from the claws of the Taliban. One such person is “Henry,” a naturalized United States Citizen originally from Afghanistan. Here are the details from The Federalist:
Henry, an Afghan-American translator, is just one of the many people still dealing with the fallout of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal operations. After the last group of U.S. military took flight from Afghanistan to meet the president’s August 31 deadline, hundreds of Americans and Afghan allies who assisted the U.S.’s decades-long occupation in Afghanistan were left behind, including Henry’s wife, brother, and children as young as three years old.
For your information, the names and a few other details have been altered by the Federalist to protect those who are still trapped in Afghanistan and those working to get them out, in spite of the State Department’s incompetence, (At best, it’s just incompetence)
Henry became a United States citizen in 2020 and came in under the Special Immigrant Visa Program. The story doesn’t say how he received the visa, however it’s usually for doing something to help the United States. He may have been a translator, he might have been in the Afghan Army and saved American soldiers. However, he came here legally and became a United States Citizen.
When President Dementia announced that he was going to bravely run away and abandon Afghanistan to the tender mercies of the Taliban, he headed back to Afghanistan to get his family out. His family had run into the usual issues with the Immigration system, (Of which I have first hand knowledge so I sympathize for those going through the system and trying to do it the right way) He received a notice that everything was good to go.
“I received an email from the U.S. Embassy. They had a pass in the email. It said ‘please go to the airport,’ you know, ‘take your family, go to the airport,’” Henry told The Federalist.
There was just one small problem. Thanks to that incompetent, senile idiot and the losers now on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, instead of running this out of the airbase at Bagram, which was set up to handle the amount of traffic that was anticipated, the JCS ordered all American forces to sneak out under cover of darkness and abandon the base and the Afghan troops there. Because of this, they had to go to the airport in Kabul, and we all saw what a disaster that was.
Henry’s family rushed to pack up and travel to the Hamid Karzai International Airport airport in Kabul but when they got there, they met crowds of thousands of other Americans and Afghans hoping to reach the U.S.-controlled area where they could catch a lifeline flight out of the country. It took them two days to navigate their way through the desperate mob, which previously trampled a 2-year-old girl to death, before they reached the right gate.
Once they got inside the terminal, Henry’s family faced another crowd of people hoping to get bused to a departure spot. There, his wife and kids sat for two more days in the heat without any supplies. At one point, Henry lost contact with his family because his wife lost her phone, her purse, and even some jewelry after being jostled by other panicked people fleeing the Taliban.
Thanks to the stupidity of President Dementia and his Maladministration, and their disbelief that the Taliban would so quickly overrun the country, they were not set up to handle the crowds that arrived. This included things like food and water, especially water.
“They were not prepared,” Henry said. “They didn’t have water and no food, nothing.”
“My family and everybody else was asking about water because the kids were getting unconscious. They were asking the Marine guys to see if they can provide some water. My wife was calling me. And I was like, helpless and I was trying to see if I can talk to one of those marine soldiers out there so that he or she could provide some water to them. And they were saying they don’t even have water. Like no water, no food, so just be patient, you know, and that was a really sad moment,” Henry said.
This had to just tear up the Marines and other enlisted personnel. American troops have a long tradition of wanting to help people especially children. However, they’re also operating under orders from the National Command Authority, (AKA President Bumbles Dementia), and were limited in what they could actually do. (I’m sure they did try to figure out a way around the problem. Soldiers and Marines are good a that)
“After talking to them, me and my American Marine friends were like begging to those guys out there to at least provide some water for those people and those children. And finally they would, from somewhere, find like two or three bottles of water,” Henry said.
Meanwhile, Dementia Joe was having another ice cream cone. This is one big difference between this maladministration and the administration of the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump. President Trump would have damn well made sure there were plenty of supplies on hand for the people as they waited. (We won’t go into how he would not have done what Dementia Joe did in the first place)
It took another 6 days before the buses arrived to move Henry and his family out. Then they ran into the tender mercies of the State Department…again.
After six days of waiting, Henry said buses finally came to get his wife and kids, but their joy didn’t last for long. When his family failed to show a U.S. passport or green card, they were told to go home.
“All they had was the Afghan passports and they had the path that I sent which was from the U.S. Embassy,” Henry said. “…It was a very sad moment.”
The U.S. military may have turned Henry’s family away, but all hope was not lost.
The Soldiers and Marines on the ground were just as enraged over what was happening as we were back in the United States. They started calling around to friends that were out of the service to see if they could do anything to help, and they did.
“After six days, somehow these people, like angels, they fall from the sky and say ‘we will do our best to get to your family here because they’re the family of the U.S. citizen.’ And I shared that with my wife. And she got so happy. That was a happy one,” Henry said.
This is where groups like the Pineapple Express came into being. These were private, non-governmental groups who, working with members of congress, came into Afghanistan and began a private rescue operation.
Much like the Pineapple Express, the group assisting Henry is using covert, private operations to assist Americans who felt abandoned by the Biden administration’s abrupt departure. This “hodgepodge” of individuals, some of which have served in the U.S. military in special operations or still do, are “actively shepherding” people who are at risk of Taliban retaliation out of the country.
Others are using their knowledge and relationships with translators and connections on the ground to relay information to the network of rescuers who have the skills and resources to complete private missions and step in after the Biden administration failed. One group member told The Federalist that they have successfully rescued approximately 200 people.
These are the groups that the State Department under Antony “Rapidly” Blinken have been actively interfering with. When one team managed to get an American woman and her children out by going overland, these useless vermin tried to steal the credit.
“Then we were going through whatever these guys were guiding us like to go,” Henry said. “…My wife never gave up, and she was going to wherever we were saying.”
The group helping Henry and his family are working with them to get all of them into the United States. As usual, our ever so competent bureaucracy is being their usual helpful selves.
“I also applied for my wife and my kids when I came here. They were also in the process that they will be here sometime. And that actually took like four years and I was just running around with immigration, providing them all the documentation, and the passport, everything that they needed. And still, I guess, it’s because maybe there are too many people who applied for that…every time they were thinking that it’s under review…They took forever,” Henry said.
Again, I sympathize with Henry. I’ve been there and done that. When I worked to bring She Who Must Be Obeyed lawfully into the United States, we ran into one roadblock after the other. Her “File” has the fingerprints of two United States Senators on it. (SWMBO is a big fan of the Sununu family)
But when these “angels” swept in, they also paid Henry’s lawyer and helped expedite the process for Henry to be reunited with his wife and kids in the states.
“We got approval confirmation for my family and the lawyer is working on it because these guys, like I said, the angels, they paid the remaining balance for my family. They can get the visas after the interview,” Henry said.
The rescue mission for Henry’s family is still underway, but Henry said he already feels much more optimistic than he did in August.
“I’m so happy,” Henry said. “I hope my family would come here soon so we can go and see these people up close and hug these people. Their kids are praying…for my daughters, every day.”
Henry is the “Right sort” of immigrant. He, obviously, has decided that the American way of life is the best thing for his daughters, and considering what they were facing in a Taliban run Afghanistan, I have a feeling they are going to be good for the country. Hopefully, when the 2022 midterms and the 2024 Presidential elections roll around, he will remember which party screwed him and his family over. Welcome to America Mrs. “Henry” and children.
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