ignore congress and deal with the local level, deal with the governors, deal with the states, deal with the counties. i mean, i have refugee organizations in my home district in new york who are very active in helping, people in towns and communities for the most part want to help and many times refugees are sent to areas where there are already afghans there. people who support muslim communities so it s not being done without any forethought. i think the process can go forward smoothly and hopefully not politicized. we re waiting for the pent gone briefing to begin and as we await that briefing, i do kind of just want to touch on the international reaction and the international coordinatio aallyship needed to manage afghanistan in the future.
later. with regard to your question, there are so many americans who have stepped forward and people keep emailing me, where should i donate? the new york times, wall street journal, washington post nbctoday.com they put in organizations but international refugee committee, irc.org, the lutherans, lutheran refugee organizations are helping. american citizens are helping. i don t think it will be a problem to resettle them. i do hope that americans don t make this a political thing. my parents are political refugee highly educated who came to america in, by the time they got here 1957, they fled communist hungary. these afghans are highly educated and speak english. hopefully it won t become politicized. how do you avoid that in the divided political atmosphere that we are currently in? you know, i think that what you do is hopefully try to
this is really a story for another time, but the u.s. government obviously is working around the clock, we have military, civilians, trying their best to get as many people out of danger really in afghanistan who are again u.s. citizens or already cleared for onward travel and asylum essentially in other countries. the government working with volunteers, people such as myself and friends of mine who have been working for weeks on this refugee organizations, ngos, people essentially bringing in contract aircraft and also helping working with the military to get those serving with the military, the afghans out of the country, out of danger. that operation has to continue and keep pace. it would be great to get people
commitment. they re bringing their they re bringing to their countries the afghans who served alongside their forces as translators or in their embassies, just as we re bringing to the united states those afghans who worked alongside our forces and diplomats. we are continuing that effort. we are conducting thorough security screening in the intermediate stops they re making for anyone who is not a u.s. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the united states. anyone arriving in the united states will have undergone a background check. and, and we must all work together to resettle thousands of afghans who ultimately qualify for refugee status. the united states will do our part, and we are already working closely with refugee organizations to rebuild a system that was purposely destroyed by my predecessor. finally, we agreed to stay vigilant against terrorist threats that have metastasized
we re already seeing our allies commitment. they re bringing to their countries the afghans who served alongside their forces as translators or in their embassies just as we re bringing to the united states those afghans who worked alongside our forces and diplomats. we re conducting thorough security screening and the intermediate stops they are making for anyone who is not a u.s. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the united states. anyone arriving in the united states will have undergone a background check. and we must all work together to resettle thousands of afghans who ultimately qualify for refugee status. the united states will do our part, and we are already working closely with refugee organizations to rebuild the system that was purposefully destroyed by my predecessor. finally, we agreed to stay vigilant against terrorist