{"id":39603,"date":"2021-09-06T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39603"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T19:15:12","slug":"the-united-states-conducts-unprecedented-relocation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39603","title":{"rendered":"The United States Conducts Unprecedented Relocation Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>09\/06\/2021 08:06 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i><i>I want to thank our allies and partners.\u00a0 This operation was a global endeavor in every way.\u00a0 Many countries stepped up with robust contributions to the airlift, including working by our side at the airport.\u00a0 Some are now serving as transit countries, allowing evacuees to be registered and processed on the way to their final destinations.\u00a0 Others have agreed to resettle Afghan refugees permanently, and we hope more will do so in the days and weeks ahead.\u00a0 We are truly grateful for their support.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0Secretary Antony J.\u00a0Blinken,\u00a0August 31, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The United States mobilized an unprecedented, global effort through our diplomatic channels to evacuate U.S. citizens, personnel from partner nations, and at-risk Afghans from Kabul.\u00a0\u00a0In total,\u00a0the United States and\u00a0our partners\u00a0relocated more than 124,000 people to safety, including 6,000 U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>With support from\u00a0partners\u00a0and allies,\u00a0the United States\u00a0put together a global network \u2013 consisting of more than two dozen countries spanning four continents \u2013\u00a0with\u00a0total temporary transit\u00a0capacity\u00a0of\u00a065,000\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>people\u00a0on a rolling basis, including up to 2,000 spaces to accommodate persons that need longer-term processing.<\/p>\n<p><b>The United States Leverages a\u00a0<\/b><b>Global Network of Partners<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We are grateful to the global network of countries that have provided critical assistance for our evacuation efforts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partners and allies \u2013 including Bahrain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Kuwait,\u00a0Netherlands,\u00a0Norway,\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>Pakistan, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom\u00a0\u2013\u00a0have helped transit Americans or others to safety.<\/li>\n<li>Other countries have made generous offers to help in a variety of ways regarding the relocation efforts for at-risk Afghans.\u00a0 These countries include Albania, Bahrain, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana,\u00a0India,\u00a0Kuwait,\u00a0Mexico,<wbr><\/wbr>\u00a0Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Rwanda, Singapore, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/li>\n<li>Our temporary transit locations in the Gulf have the capacity to process approximately 37,000 people on a rolling basis, and more than 65,000 people have already been processed through the Gulf,\u00a0bound for the United States or further processing at European sites.<\/li>\n<li>The temporary transit locations we have established at U.S. or joint bases in Europe have capacity to process at least 28,000 people on a rolling basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The United States is Working Quickly and With Precision<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are working\u00a0around the clock to ensure U.S. citizens, at-risk Afghan civilians, and others are able to reach their ultimate destinations safely and efficiently.<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals\u00a0from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Counterterrorism Center, and additional Intelligence Community partners, are\u00a0working around the clock to expedite the processing and vetting of Afghans\u00a0before they are allowed into the United States. This includes reviews of both biographic and biometric data.<\/li>\n<li>Already nearly 40,000 people have departed overseas processing sites and arrived in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09\/06\/2021 08:06 AM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39604,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions\/39604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}