face. i m not showing the right name um because i care about your safety. and i appreciate what you re doing because i want you to tell people, one, tell us a little bit about the video that you sent us from a few days ago. just for how serious it is even before the bombings. just what the taliban has been doing to people that you ve seen? actually, we start going to the airport with few families on august 16. and we spent two nights there but we didn t get lucky to get inside. so on the 19, we went back there early in the morning. and things was very bad. like, it was chaos. i mean, we it was very hard for us to get in. so somehow, we got close to the to the gate. but we unfortunately, we couldn t get in. and all of a sudden, we see them different units from afghan different units. they call it 01, 02, 03. they will keep calling us to sit down. so i sat down with three, four
to get into the gate. so they have no control but to shoot because there is no way you control these crowds. so that s the only reason they have no no choice but to start shooting because they none of them are listening. everybody s there. the military the american military or the afghan special forces have no clue who are entering. the the right person or the wrong person. right. because everyone is at the gate. but some of them i i feel, witnessing myself i feel there 60% of those people are without any documentation. they never even worked with americans. but they took opportunity away from those who really worked with americans. so you it s a chaos. you have no idea what s going on there. and it s just everybody s running around. so it s a really sad moment. and i have been trying since august 16 to get these families out of the country. but i m keep failing because some of them have approved sivs. some of them are pending since 2015. and some of them did not
so we re hopeful. tamara, what can you tell us about the family that was able to get out, and why the others haven t been able to reach the airport? i don t know. i know that that family returned last evening. i m told they spent the day resting. they were exhausted. but i do not know the circumstances around their return. i m hopeful that however they were able to get out, that that same mechanism will help us get the rest of them out. when did you first realize or first know that you had students and families unable to get out? like i said, august 16. so our liaisons, we have two liaisons who work directly with our afghanistani families who live here in the el cajon area and our liaisons throughout the school year have worked to build trust with their families so the families can be an advocate for their own students at school. thankfully those relationships is what alerted us to the fact that those kiddoes were over there. those students reached out to
office, we have 17 liaisons throughout our school district, and two of those liaisons have been in touch with those students. so we ve had a great line of communication open. the students initially contacted their liaisons on or about august 16, and informed them, please hold our spots in our classrooms, we don t think we re going to be back for the start of school but we don t want to lose our spaces. and so thankfully that communication has allowed us to reach out to congressman isa s office who has helped us with these students. now with this new security warping, it is increasingly dangerous. how worried are you about their safety? extremely. extremely worried. we want them back. they re our students. the plan, of course, was to visit family and then to return. and we understand currently that they re still in homes with families and friends.