Former President Donald Trump said the US Air Force C-17 should’ve been filled with Americans instead of 640 refugees.
“This plane should have been full of Americans. America First!” he said in a statement as he retweeted a photo that shows 640 Afghans fleeing from the Taliban.
This comes after Trump slammed President Joe Biden for not rescuing civilians and those ‘who have been good to our country.’
Trump said in a statement: “Can anyone even imagine taking out our Military before evacuating civilians and others who have been good to our Country and who should be allowed to seek refuge?
“In addition, these people left topflight and highly sophisticated equipment.
“Who can believe such incompetence? Under my Administration, all civilians and equipment would have been removed.”
This comes as some of Trump’s allies began fear-mongering about refugees entering the country.
The Center for Renewing America, whish is led by former Trump Office of Management and Budget official Russ Vought, also released a statement cautioning that the U.S. should not take in too many refugees.
Co-authored by Ken Cuccinelli, who served as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under the former president, the statement read: “We must keep in mind that most of the fleeing Afghans will not have directly aided the United States or directly fought against the Taliban. And it is not in our national interest to accept refugees merely because they are refugees.
“Already U.S. governors are rushing to resettle refugees from Afghanistan with no thought as to how it will impact the security or cohesion of their communities.”
It added: “Americans understandably want to protect Afghans who risked their lives to fight w U.S. against the Taliban & Al-Qaeda.
“However, we must be careful that we do not allow the attitude behind the self-destructive open border policies & enforcement failures happening on our southern border to be repeated with the importation & resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghans who we cannot properly vet and who may very well pose a security risk to our communities, and may be unable or unwilling to assimilate into our country.”
Steve Cortes, Trump’s senior advisor during his 2020 campaign, also reacted to the viral refugee photo and tweeted: “Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town?
“America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No more…”
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