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Friday, August 20, 2021
Any Afghan Migrants Who Reach America or Europe are Undeportable
There was not a single word in the two DHS documents cited above, about concerns that foreign terrorists would seek to enter the United States to carry out terror attacks even as the Taliban was rampaging across Afghanistan, the country that provided safe havens for al-Qaida and other terror organizations before the attacks of 9/11 which prompted American military action in that country to help prevent future terror attacks against the United States.
Any Afghan Migrants Who Reach America or Europe are Undeportable
And after Taliban win, millions of Afghan migrants may head to U.S. and Europe.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that 30,000 Afghans a week are fleeing their country. However a report in The Guardian states that “30,000 Afghan citizens have left the country each day for the past 10 days”. That would approach a third of a million migrants.
While a small minority can be seen trying to board American aircraft at Kabul airport, the vast majority are moving on foot through Pakistan and Iran. The Shiite terror state is a particularly ideal gateway destination because it allows them easy access to Turkey and then to Europe.
And because Iran, unlike Pakistan, has done little to fortify its border with Afghanistan, Iranian authorities profit from Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trade and allowing Afghan migrants access to Europe undermines its enemies in the European Union under the guise of humanitarian aid.
About half a million of the UN’s refugees were added to the lists this year. That means the flow is just beginning and with as many as a third of a million already underway, it’s possible that Europe, America, and other western nations will see even more Afghan than Syrian migrants.
The UN already lists 2.5 million officially registered refugees, but that’s only a percentage. Iran alone previously claimed that it had around 3 million Afghan refugees inside its borders. Pakistan holds at least 1.5 million officially and, unofficially, a total of as much as 3 million.
Neither Muslim country has been willing to permanently resettle its fellow Muslims. Especially since Pakistan backs the Taliban and Iran is looking to build closer relations with the Taliban.
Pakistan's backing for the Taliban created two generations of refugee crises in Afghanistan, but is loudly demanding that western governments take them. The Islamic terror state which harbored Osama bin Laden has alternately proposed that the UN should fund refugee camps inside Afghanistan. UN refugee camps inside Afghanistan would only be able to operate with the sanction of the Taliban and would lead to the United States funding the terror group.
That is exactly what Pakistan, which is behind the Taliban, wants America and the UN to do.
The refugee crisis is a trojan horse of political opportunities for the Pakistani, Iranian, Turkish, and other Islamist allies of the Taliban to finance terrorists and undermine western nations.
Maintaining a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan will lead to a flow of foreign aid to the Taliban.
Western nations, faced with the threat of millions of migrants showing up on their doorsteps, will be happy, after a few initial protests, to pay off the Taliban, overtly or covertly, to slow the flood. While the aid organizations swear up and down that none of the money is going to the Taliban, it is impossible to operate in a terror state without paying protection money to the terrorists.
Doing any kind of business in Afghanistan will mean doing business with the Taliban.
Turkey, the bridge between Muslim refugees and Europe, has openly used the migrant flow to blackmail the European Union. The new flood of migrants will give Erdogan, Turkey’s own Taliban leader, even more leverage against weak European leaders like Germany’s Merkel.
European countries may decide to preserve their legitimacy by using Turkey to covertly negotiate an arrangement with the Taliban that will slow the flow of Afghan refugees.
Such negotiations may very well be taking place right now.
570,000 Afghans have already applied for asylum in Europe over the past 5 years. While some of these asylum requests were rejected, the Taliban takeover means that the Afghans can no longer be deported. And they are now going to stay on in Europe: legally or illegally.
The same holds true for Afghans illegally in the United States.
Even assuming that the Taliban would take them, the United States is not going to deport Afghans back to Afghanistan. Any Afghan illegal aliens, past or present, who make their way to the United States are effectively here for good unless a non-Taliban government rises in Afghanistan. Or unless an America First administration wins an election in the United States, tears up past UN refugee agreements and finds a combination of countries willing to take them.
In the European Union, a bloc of six countries already overwhelmed with Afghan illegal migrants announced that they would maintain deportations.
The six countries, some conservative like Austria, others as pro-refugee as Germany, had little in common except that they were already drowning in migrants. But the rebellion against the EU's immigration policy proved short-lived with Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark all changing course. Only Austria is still trying to hold the line on deporting Afghan migrants.
What all of this means is that any Afghans (or migrants who claim to be Afghans) who reach America or Europe are undeportable. They will stay on and receive some quasi-legal status.
The Taliban’s takeover and the rapid evacuation of western diplomats and organizations will make it all but impossible to verify the identities of even legitimate claimants. Despite all the billions of dollars poured into Afghanistan over the years, much of the country remains rural and backward, and many residents, especially those outside the major cities, have little in the way of identity documents. Afghanistan’s turbulent history and change in administrations, combined with the large unofficial refugee populations in Pakistan and Iran, have created a competing assortment of different identity documents, many of which will be all but impossible to verify.
American or European immigration authorities won’t be able to screen out Islamic terrorists from refugees. Nor will they be able to do very much except ask some very rudimentary questions.
The United States currently hosts around 100,000 Afghans. The number of SIV visas for Afghans who worked for the United States in some capacity alone was estimated to eventually top 100,000 when accounting for family members. As the Taliban advanced, new lenient regulations were rolled out that put nearly every Afghan who worked for any American organization in just about any capacity eligible as a priority for refugee status in America.
The Afghans being transported out of Kabul airport to U.S. bases will move somewhere and it won’t be the Arab countries that are hosting those bases. They will most likely end up here. Plans are already underway to house them at bases in Texas and Wisconsin.
Before too long the Afghan population in this country could double practically overnight.
And then go on doubling for as long as the refugee flow continues and our border stays open.
Thousands of Afghans have already been transported to Virginia. It ought to go without saying that it is highly unlikely that any Afghans who make it into the United States will ever leave.
While it’s not unreasonable to feel sympathy for people, some of whom are legitimately fleeing domestic terror, many others are simply taking advantage of an opportunity. Afghanistan’s recent relative prosperity was fed by the billions of dollars that the United States, Europe, and other allied nations invested in its infrastructure, its economy, and its military. Some Afghans genuinely fear being tortured, murdered, or enslaved by the Taliban. Others don’t object to the Taliban, but are seeking economic opportunities that will no longer be available under them.
The opponents of the Taliban also fall into many categories. There are dedicated Islamists who reject the Taliban for a variety of theological, political, and tribal reasons. Afghan Shiites are wary of the Taliban, but their ties to Iran don’t make them friends of the United States.
Afghanistan contains a number of different ethnic, tribal, and religious groups who might oppose the Sunni Pashtuns of the Taliban without being any kind of fit for America or Europe. That is part of the reason why attempts to build any kind of democratic Afghanistan quickly fell apart.
Proponents of unlimited migration argue that we owe it to the Afghan people to take them in. But if there’s any debt there, it’s not from America to the Afghans, but the Afghans to Americans.
The United States, Europe, and other countries about to be saddled with a massive refugee surge spent countless billions and sacrificed the lives of their young men to build a country out of the rock and ruin of Afghanistan. They took bread out of the mouths of their own people and filled VA hospitals with the wounded, inside and outside, in a sacrifice that Afghans squandered.
The blame game over the fall of Afghanistan will go on for years, but the simple fact of the matter is that the majority of the Afghan military surrendered to the Taliban or ran away.
Any debt here is owed to us by the Afghans. We have paid our debts in blood and treasure.
The Afghan refugee crisis shows that the Taliban still have any number of ways that they can hurt us even once we have left Afghanistan. Their ability to turn the refugee tap on and off will allow not only the Jihadists, but their allies in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey to blackmail us and our NATO allies by using Afghan refugees as a weapon. That’s a weapon we have to take away.
America is already staggering under the massive weight of illegal aliens arriving south of the border. We cannot accommodate the illegal aliens we have, let alone hundreds of thousands of people arriving from a stone age society whose values are fundamentally at odds with our own.
The Biden administration created the Afghan refugee crisis. It should not expect Americans in Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia, and anywhere else it’s plotting to dump its new wave of aliens, to shoulder the burden for a crisis that it created.
The collapse of Afghanistan is one disaster. An Afghan refugee surge would be a second disaster. We can survive the collapse of Afghanistan, we can’t survive the collapse of America.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release funds frozen following the jihadist group’s ouster of the government of Afghanistan in an interview with the Chinese government broadcaster CGTN on Friday.
Shaheen also emphasized foreign investment in Afghanistan would be critical to the success of any Taliban government. Shaheen, as well as most of the Taliban’s top media representatives, have repeatedly urged the world to invest in a Taliban-led Afghanistan, particularly courting the Chinese Communist Party but going so far as to suggest that the radical Islamist organization would be happy to allow American corporations to participate in the Afghan economy.
“We need the reconstruction of Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan need the budget. The [central bank] shall need the budget,” Shaheen told CGTN on Friday.
The Taliban seized control of the nation last weekend, surrounding the capital, Kabul, and prompting former President Ashraf Ghani to abruptly flee the country. Taliban jihadists proclaimed an end to the Afghan republic and the reinstallation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on Sunday night, repeatedly vowing an “inclusive” government and respect for women’s rights, within the context of their repressive interpretation of sharia, or the Islamic law.
Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)
Most of the world has largely rejected the Taliban’s claims to being the legitimate government of Afghanistan. The IMF froze funds meant for the legitimate government in response to the Taliban’s arrival in Kabul.
Shaheen attacked the IMF, calling the move to prevent Taliban jihadists from accessing funding “not fair, an injustice.” A spokesman for the IMF explained Thursday that the organization had frozen the funds in response to a “lack of clarity” regarding who is actually running the country.
“As is always the case, the IMF is guided by the views of the international community,” spokesman Gerry Rice said. “There is currently a lack of clarity within the international community regarding recognition of a government in Afghanistan, as a consequence of which the country cannot access SDRs [Special Drawing Rights] or other IMF resources.”
The move places Afghanistan alongside Venezuela — where the constitutionally legitimate president, Juan Guaidó, has no tangible power and socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro wields control of the country — and Myanmar, which endured a military coup this year, as nations whose chaotic government status renders them unable to access IMF resources.
In Friday’s interview, Shaheen also urged China to invest in Afghanistan, which has become a routine talking point for all the representatives the Taliban have tasked with international communication ties.
“China is a big country with a huge economy and capacity — I think they can play a very big role in the rebuilding, rehabilitation, reconstruction of Afghanistan,” Shaheen asserted.
Shaheen has been among the most vocal members of the Taliban courting Chinese investment. In July, Shaheen asserted that Taliban members hoped to see Chinese investment in the country “as soon as possible.”
“We have been to China many times and we have good relations with them,” Shaheen said. “China is a friendly country that we welcome for reconstruction and developing Afghanistan.”
Afghanistan is a critical part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure plan Beijing has sold as an attempt to reconstruct the Ancient Silk Road connecting eastern China to western Europe. China has used the BRI in countries that were not part of the Ancient Silk Road in Africa and Southeast Asia to offer poorer countries predatory loans later used to seize critical ports and railways and dominate local governments. The Communist Party has repeatedly expressed public interest in expanding its investments in Afghanistan and playing a larger role in the nation’s foreign policy. It also hosted Taliban delegations on several occasions in the past two years.
Chinese state media celebrated America’s “complete humiliation” in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s arrival this week and proclaimed China the “real winner” of the end of Ghani’s regime.
BEIJING, CHINA – APRIL 26: Chinese President Xi Jinping proposes a toast during the welcome banquet for leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri – Pool/Getty Images)
Shaheen gave CGTN a separate interview on Thursday in which he detailed the provisional plan for the structure of the Taliban government in the country. He noted that the group is hoping to choose a “supreme leader” and leadership council, but did not offer any details regarding the process for choosing who appeared on the councils. Taliban officials have repeatedly insisted that they will not hold elections and “there will be no democratic system at all” in the country.
Attempts to present the Taliban as capable of managing a bureaucratic government structure also appear to be part of the jihadist group’s ploy to attract foreign investment. While loudest in calling for Chinese businesses to participate in the Afghan economy, the Taliban has made clear it is open to all nations, including the United States, funding their regime.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a senior Taliban spokesman, clarified on Twitter on Thursday that the Taliban has not implemented any trade restrictions with any country in the world, presumably including America.
“The Islamic Emirate wants better diplomatic and trade relations with all countries. We have not said no about not trading with any country,” Mujahid wrote on Twitter. “The rumors that have been spread about this are not true and we reject it.”
Mujahid led the Taliban’s first formal press conference after taking over the country on Tuesday. He spent a significant amount of time courting foreign investment.
“We hope that as soon as conflict has done away with Afghanistan, we are going to build infrastructures of the economy. For this we are going to take actions for economic activities,” Mujahid told reporters. “The interactions with the international community, with other countries are going to continue. We are going to be working on our natural resources and our resources in order to revitalize our economy, for our reconstruction, for our prosperity.”
Mujahid asked the world to fund the Taliban economy: “the Islamic Emirate is requesting the whole international community that Allah willing, we can very soon, actually very quickly can change the situation, the country economically.”
Taliban officials also prioritized urging investors to make a Taliban regime wealthy during statements shortly before the fall of the Afghan government.
“Our message to businessmen, industrialists and capitalists is to carry out their work normally and serve their people,” a formal Taliban statement published last week read. “The Islamic Emirate creates a suitable environment for their business and, to this end, it will not hesitate to do everything in its power.”
In 2019, shortly before the Taliban began engaging in talks with the then-Trump administration, jihadi leader Mullah Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai stated the group would one day hope to see American corporations invest in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
“We have told them [the Americans] that after ending your military intervention, we will welcome U.S. engineers, doctors, and others if they want to come back for reconstruction of Afghanistan,” Stanikzai said. “And they have promised to do so.”
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