Sarah Armstrong, Sean Horgan, and Steve Schrader
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As military veterans, we’ve seen firsthand the good that the United States can do when it lives up to its ideals. But we’ve also seen the damage it can do when it falls short. Our country has extraordinary power both to help and to harm.
This is certainly true on the southern border, where every day the U.S. government chooses either to provide protection to refugees or to inflict further suffering on them. Unfortunately, under President Donald Trump, it opted to do the latter much more often than not.
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May 10, 2021
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NEW YORK Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) today released a letter from fifteen veteran-led organizations calling on President Biden to swiftly evacuate the over 17,000 Afghans in the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program as a central element of our military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“As we prepare to bring America’s longest war to a close, we cannot abandon the Afghans who faithfully served alongside American troops,” said
Director of Veterans for American Ideals Chris Purdy. “For all intents and purposes, these are veterans. They have saved American lives. They deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect as any combat soldier. The clock is ticking on the President’s commitment to withdraw by September 11; we must honor our commitments to our allies now.”
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