Posted on 08/31/2021 5:31:27 PM PDT by bitt
Neither State nor Defense Departments has offered an update on students, Rep. Bera's office
The office of Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., confirmed to Fox News that two dozen Sacramento-area students are stranded in Afghanistan and the Biden administration has not provided an update on their status.
Bera’s office confirmed in an email to Fox News that the students were trapped overseas, and the California Democrat’s team has been in contact with the San Juan Unified School District (SJUSD) but has not received any update from the administration.
"Our office has been in close contact with the San Juan Unified School District, and have urgently flagged this with the Department of Defense and State Department. We have not received an update from DOD or State," Bera spokesperson Travis Horne told Fox News on Tuesday.
School district staff told the Sacramento Bee on Monday that 24 of their students had not returned from Afghanistan, which is lower than the 150 students initially thought to be stranded.
Bera began working with school district after reading the Bee’s previous reporting on the subject.
The White House didn’t respond when asked by Fox News if it had a plan to get the students home and if it was still considered inappropriate to say Americans are "stranded" in Afghanistan, as press secretary Jen Psaki previously said.
Biden has repeatedly been accused of misleading the American public as the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded.
In March, Biden vowed that the Afghanistan withdrawal would be done "in a safe and orderly way." But the withdrawal was neither safe nor orderly.
In July, Biden said it would be "highly unlikely" for the Taliban to take over the country after the U.S. pulled out.
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Question: What the HE// were these kids doing in that HE// Hole?
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
C’mon, man! That was 4, 5 days ago.
I’m pretty sure Pedo Joe believes they are simply collateral losses . . . no big deal. Would not surprise me to see them strapped in suicide vests at some future point.
Exactly, not are they only teaching kids crap in schools nowadays, but they take them on a field trip to of all places, a shithole country.
What were their parents thinking? Isn’t this considered child endangerment?
What were they doing over there?
It’s the “don’t you know who I am?” syndrome that doesn’t go over every where. They think they’re invincible because they “care”, don’t you see?
I really don’t believe they think countries and people are as evil as they are portrayed.
WOKE is going to get them killed
Can you say this word fast three times backwards?
SEGATSOH
The communist newspaper, Sacramento Bee, says they are of Afghan descent, and went there for their father’s funeral. I suspect they were all Afghanis, but I don’t know that for sure.
Any high school students who are stupid enough to travel to Afghanistan should be left there. These are all going to be Democrat voters if/when they get back.
No indication that they were Christian. Muzzie field trip?
Boys will become taliban.
Girls will be raped for being westernized.
Who paid the airfare...the parents or the tax payers
i want that one and the one with bloody hands
Their father’s funeral? All 25+ students?
“Their father’s funeral? All 25+ students?”
Maybe they are his children. :-)
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