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It’s a human interest story, of sorts, but there are so many strange aspects to it that once the facts are fully known, if they ever are, it may turn out to have been something else altogether. Abdul Wasi Safi, a former soldier in the Afghan army, was caught crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico and is now being held in Texas. Now the far-Left Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Race Resentment) is pushing for Old Joe Biden to give Wasi, as he is known, a presidential pardon. Why was someone who fought for our Afghan allies trying to sneak into the country? And why is Jackson Lee, of all people, who has never shown any particular interest in our troops or their allies, speaking out for him? All that and much more remains unclear.
The more one learns about it, the curiouser this story gets. The Texas Tribune reported Friday that Jackson Lee is “demanding the release of a former Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. who is being held at a Texas detention center after he attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with his brother.” Nor does she simply want him to be released: In order to make sure that Abdul Wasi Safi “begins his life in the U.S. without a criminal record,” she “sent a letter to the White House asking the Biden administration to pardon the Afghan veteran for any crimes related to his crossing the border seeking asylum.”
Jackson Lee held a news conference on Friday with Wasi’s brother, Sami-ullah Safi, who lives in the U.S. now. Of Wasi’s detention in Texas, she said, “This is a mistake that needs to be corrected immediately.” Sami-ullah Safi added, “I’m calling on Biden’s administration to release my brother. He believed in this mission of this country in Afghanistan. That’s why he fought alongside the United States Special Forces…to eliminate terrorism.”
The Tribune explains that Wasi “worked as an intelligence officer in the Afghan National Security Forces alongside U.S. troops. He fled Afghanistan in 2021 as the Taliban began targeting citizens who had previously helped the U.S. during the decadeslong [sic] war. Wasi crossed three continents to make it to the Texas border, where he hoped to meet his brother, who is now a naturalized U.S. citizen. Instead, he was arrested and has been in custody since Sept. 30.”
Now, wait a minute. Why did Wasi have to do any of that? If he helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan, why couldn’t he enter the U.S. with no problem, legally? On Sept. 3, 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced “Operation Allies Welcome, our unprecedented, historic effort to resettle in the United States tens of thousands of Afghan nationals, many of whom assisted the United States and many of whom are vulnerable women and girls.”
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Jim J Fox says
“why was someone who fought for our Afghan allies trying to sneak into the country?”
Couldn’t possibly be that he knew of hundreds/thousands of Afghans helping the USA abandoned to their fate by your Government?
NO, that can’t be, surely!
OLD GUY says
Whats the big deal about this immigrant entering America illegally. Thousands of illegals a day are crossing the Southern border and our Government is fine with that and will assist them in transporting them throughout the country free of charge. At least we know who he is. Maybe we should have a closed border. Maybe we should enforce the immigration laws already in place or have elected officials that can produce a system of regulations and controls that will be good for AMERICAN CITIZENS.