Remember when the Biden administration left a wake of chaos and horror in Afghanistan in 2021? It’s disturbing that there have been so many disasters throughout Biden’s term that the Afghanistan withdrawal has been buried under the president’s many botched efforts. But not everyone has had the luxur.
Community support has pulled through to help settle Afghan refugees in Maine. Expecting, over an eight-month period, to receive refugees taken out of Afghanistan within days of the U.S. military withdrawal, “we had 100 arrive in eight weeks,” according to one employee with Maine’s Immigrant & Refugee Services.