In his first interview since taking workplace, United States Vice President JD Vance on Saturday defended President Donald Trump&& 's flurry of executive orders, and his suspension of the refugee program.Speaking to CBS on Sunday night, Vance dismissed concerns that the White House was not prioritizing US financial worries, and argued that suspending the country&& 's refugee admissions program was justified.Hours after taking office on Jan.
20, Trump suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program, leaving countless Afghans stranded at airports, some of whom had dealt with the United States previous to its withdrawal from Afghanistan.Vance previously informed CBS in August that he did not think Washington should abandon people who have && been correctly vetted and really helped us.&& The refugee program is an 18- to 24-month procedure that involves interviews, medical screenings and security vetting.Refugee applicants must prove they are getting away persecution before being enabled into the US.Vance on Saturday appeared to reverse course, questioning whether the program had && effectively vetted & the refugees.
& Now that we understand that we have vetting issues with a lot of these refugee programs, we definitely can not unleash thousands of unvetted individuals into our nation,& & Vance declared, without detailing how the refugee program&& 's vetting process may be faulty.He provided the example of an Afghan national who came to the United States right away after the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
The man was jailed in Oklahoma in October on federal charges of preparing an election day terrorist attack in support of the Islamic State (Daesh).&& He was allegedly correctly vetted, and many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was correctly vetted,& & Vance declared of the suspect.
&& Clearly, he wasn&& t.
& However, CBS News reported at the time that the suspect did not arrive through the refugee procedure.
Rather, he was paroled into the country, like many Afghan evacuees, and allowed to live in the country briefly under that immigration authority while he made an application for a Special Immigrant Visa.Afghans pulled from flightsOver 1,500 Afghans cleared by the US government to transplant in the US, consisting of member of the family of active-duty US military workers, have had their flights canceled under Trump&& 's order.The group includes unaccompanied minors waiting for reunification with their families in the United States in addition to Afghans who fought for the former US-backed Afghan federal government, said Shawn VanDiver, head of the #AfghanEvac union of US veterans and advocacy groups and a United States official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.The US choice also leaves in limbo countless other Afghans who have actually been authorized for resettlement as refugees in the United States however have actually not yet been appointed flights from Afghanistan or from neighboring Pakistan, they stated.&& Afghans and supporters are panicking,& & said VanDiver.VanDiver&& 's company is the primary coalition that has been working with the US government to evacuate and resettle Afghans in America.The post JD Vance safeguards Trump&& 's order to suspend refugee program initially appeared on Ariana News.