The U.S. should evacuate thousands of interpreters and others who aided the U.S. military and government to the Pacific territory of Guam while they await decisions on their immigration visas, advocates and lawmakers said.
Bipartisan lawmakers call on Biden to ‘immediately’ evacuate Afghans who helped the US
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to immediately evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted the United States, saying in a letter Friday that those “Afghan friends and allies are at greater risk than ever before” as the US military withdrawal from the country is underway.
“After examining this situation through multiple hearings, briefings, and our own offices’ research and outreach, our bipartisan working group has concluded that we must evacuate our Afghan friends and allies immediately,” the lawmakers from the Honoring Our Promises Working Group wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to immediately evacuate thousands of Afghans who have assisted the United States, saying in a letter Friday that those "Afghan friends and allies are at greater risk than ever before" as the US military withdrawal from the country is underway.
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y Jose “Pedo” Terlaje
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Privatization and smaller government. Both of these ideals are Republican driven. I find myself at a loss for words as I watched the debate over Bill 104. Five Republicans united with two Democrats for a bill that looks to undo Public Law 35-129, which privatized the cigarette tax stamp affixation and monitoring and allowed any citizen to report any unstamped cigarette boxes to the attorney general.
It was only a few years ago that the Department of Revenue and Taxation cited a locally owned business and a local distributor of cigarettes for not paying $14.5 million in cigarette taxes over a three-year period. The unpaid tax represented nearly 5 million packs of cigarettes.