Tuesday's flight with more than 100 citizens and green card holders, as well as 56 children, was supposed to be routine for the civilian organization.
Some pencil-necked bureaucrat decided to throw his weight around and keep the citizens, green card holders, and special immigrant visa holders from entering the U.S. This, after giving the flight permission to land twice.
Bryan Stern, himself a veteran and the organizer of the evacuation flight, said that the flight took off from the international airport in Kabul but then was held on the tarmac in Abu Dhabi for roughly 14 hours with 117 people on board, including 59 children.
"Right now we have 59 children sleeping on airport chairs and cold airport floors - not the warm bed with a hot meal that we'd arranged for all of them stateside - because the US Government denied our flight clearance into ALL US ports of entry," said Project Dynamo, which is in charge of the evacuation flight, according to a post on the organization's Instagram page.
Reuters said that a Biden administration official claimed the reason for the delay is that it takes time to confirm manifests of charter flights before they are permitted to land in the U.S., but that seems arbitrary given that DHS had cleared the flight to land twice before banning it altogether.
What's more, the flight is filled with American citizens as well as Afghans who have already been cleared to the point of being given green cards and SIVs.
Someone at CPB suddenly woke up and realized, "Hey! We're in charge of vetting these people before they come into the U.S., and nobody told us they were coming." The agency promptly placed a hold on the flight despite DHS approving it and the passengers already having been vetted to receive SIVs and green cards.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Biden Administration Bars Flight Carrying Americans From Kabul
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