Op-ed: The Veterans Group Running Interference for Open-Border NGOs

Some veterans of the Afghanistan war are lobbying fiercely in Washington to resume admitting Afghan migrants, a process that the Trump administration has currently frozen. Many of these veterans are associated with an advocacy coalition called AfghanEvac, which maintains that America’s national honor will be stained if any Afghan allies are left behind under the Taliban. How many Afghans this coalition wants to bring to the United States is unclear, but the fact that we have already resettled some 200,000 Afghans appears to be, for this coalition, just a down payment on a debt that they believe America owes.

While AfghanEvac talks about America’s honor vis-à-vis these foreign nationals, the coalition would have President Donald Trump go back on his word to his voters, arguably his strongest campaign promise, to end our country’s unprecedented migration chaos. As AfghanEvac lobbies Congress and the White House for more migrants, the president is deeply engaged in cleaning up the national security and rule-of-law catastrophe caused by the Biden administration in opening the border to some 8.3 million foreigners. The 200,000 Afghans, admitted in 2021–24, were part of that chaos. The Biden administration poorly vetted these migrants and failed to confirm that they even helped the American cause in the war.

A closer examination of AfghanEvac reveals that it consists not just of U.S. veterans, although they are in the lead, but it also includes America’s professional open-border lobby: NGOs that are fundamentally anti-Trump and represent a key constituency of the Biden presidency. These are the same NGOs that received literal billions in federal subsidies from the Biden administration and never saw a foreign national population that they did not want to relocate into the United States. Republican Congressmen and conservatives sympathetic to AfghanEvac should ask these veterans why they are making common cause with these open-border, far-left NGOs.

The anti-Trump organizations include groups like Human Rights First; the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights; Church World Service; U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants; and the Biden administration’s signature open-borders group, “Welcome.US.” All of these NGOs were co-conspirators and abettors of President Joe Biden’s deliberate attack on the nation’s normal immigration laws, labor markets, and social service systems all across the country. Not only did these same groups attempt to legitimize Biden’s migration lawlessness; they siphoned off scandalous salaries and perks from the billions of federal subsidies that the Biden administration doled out as political payoffs.

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