Thousands of refugees and immigrants from Afghanistan could arrive in Queens in the coming weeks after the collapse of the government as U.S. troops withdraw from the country.
U.S. military forces secured the airport in Kabul this week and began a massive evacuation effort, even as the Taliban began to formally assert its authority over the entire country.
Many in the Queens communities of Flushing and Fresh Meadows, including Sunita Viswanath, know people scrambling to get out of Afghanistan.
“This is the time the world needs to stand with Afghanistan and not abandon Afghanistan,” said Viswanath, the co-founder of Women for Afghan Women.
The organization is the largest Afghan women’s rights group in the world — founded in Queens nearly 20 years ago when the war began.
WAW has been on the ground in Afghanistan running child care centers and helping out women who have suffered human rights violations.
“We have been running a women’s rights organization, so we are at particular danger because we’ve been doing this work, so our hope and prayers we can get people,” Viswanath said.
The group’s immediate goal is to get about 500 staff, women and children out of the country by working with the U.S. government, American allies and private operators.
However, they say just getting to the airport in Kabul is risky not just because of the Taliban, but also because of roving gangs.
U.S. military commanders insist the security situation is improving, to an extent, after the initial mad scramble to leave. Thousands of U.S. troops have secured Hamid Karzai Airport and are ramping up airlift efforts, which will move out 5,000 to 8,000 passengers per day.
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How can we tell the jihadi from the rest? They will all vote Democratic.
Now that the conservatives have taken back Kabul, payback is a bitch. The “made for TV” war had to be ended somehow. The US owes them big time. TV news and the media need to pitch in too, as they profited from this war. Military corporations need to pay up. Fox New, CNN who promoted the war got to pay up.
You break it, you fix it.
Hopefully George W will house them in his Texas Ranch or Maine mansion. All the right wing nuts who cheered on this war got to house them too.
I'm Shocked !
More Cultural Enrichment for Queens.
And just like that, the delta variant is no more.
More “diversity?” Got it.
There's something messed up when Trump is banned from twitter but the taliban isn't.
If this was the other way around would it'd be considered colonization ?
My Dad came here from Iran, so I'm 2nd gen. It takes many years to adapt to a new culture. People holding up refugee welcome signs are ignorant for not understanding how difficult assimilation is and arrogant for thinking they speak for others. You cannot invite vast swaths of fighting age men, who believe in an ideology that is in direct conflict with modern Western values and expect a good outcome.
How can we tell the jihadi from the rest? They will all vote Democratic.
And they will all lecture us on how horrible and 'white supremacist' this country is, and how much better their lives would have been in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Yet, they will all stay here, collecting social security and various other government benefits.
Sunita Viswanath is haram, she is not wearing burqa!
Krazy Nancy is so concerned about the women in Afghanistan, that she’s trying to sign up as many women as possible to the US Army to send them over there to fight…
How about the United States invades the United States and brings some democracy, healthcare and education to the people !
Afghanistan is becoming almost as dangerous now as Lightfoot's Chicago.
I yelled at my grandparents for an hour this morning because they voted for Biden....... Then I was removed from the cemetary.
The world hates America but they all want some American welfare benefits.
Did Democrats promise to make sure every American stranded in Afghanistan receives a Mail-in-Ballot ?
These democrats in America going to be profoundly shaken when they awaken to realize Neo-liberalism has failed and they are not global citizens.
End the Federal Reserve. Cut off the $$$ to these NWO Globalists.
Taliban: Death to America!
CNN: These are our kind of people!
The Taliban is pretty mostly white kids from Middle Village !
When is BLM going to release a statement in support of the Taliban ?
So I guess the American taxpayer funded gender study classes are canceled.
We will surely have another 9/11 if this happens. Also, I dont understand why the media is blaming the usa for the chaos in the Afghanistan? What happened to the Afghanistan military that they were training for the last 20 years??? What? They just ran scared and refused to fight for their country??? Even though I dont think it was a good pullout, I do agree with us pulling out. And no, im not a biden fan at all and I thought it was a very poorly organized pullout. But We were there for 20 years and apparently the Afghanistan military learned ABSOLUTELY nothing??? Give me a break! Also, where is their own FELLOW muslim nations to help them? The ones that have some of the RICHEST rulers in the world? Why the hell are we the ones to be blamed Because we refuse to keep funding and sending our men and women out to fight a never ending war against cowards? And its like we were fighting a ghost anyway...I have never heard of the taliban ever physically coming out to fight...all they do is dig holes and hide in them and maybe plant some bombs in the ground. How do you beat a group who only comes out every so often to capture one person then makes a video but doesn't come out to fight face to face? Sorry to say, but I can care less about what happens to them. Maybe China can send in more of their troops now, they have over 1 billion people, they can afford to send more of their military men in there.
Domestic terrorists ("Democrats") importing foreign terrorists because you know there will be some of them mixed in there too.
Then when jihadist acts happen a year or so down the road it'll be Trump's fault as always according to those turds who imported them in the first place.
Very simple; they're all Jihadi.
This will strengthen Queens' vibrant diversity and rainbow mosaical culture.
@"Anonymous said...
How can we tell the jihadi from the rest? They will all vote Democratic."
"Jihad Joes" are usually conservative types. My guess is that they would vote republican.
Anyway, thank the local warmongers in your neighborhood for the next flood of refugees.
No thanks.
In 20 years Afghan immigrants will be higher up on the social ladder then a certain group of ‘systemic’ individuals from the inner city.
@“ Anonymous said...
There's something messed up when Trump is banned from twitter but the taliban isn't.”
Not really.
@"Anonymous said...
I yelled at my grandparents for an hour this morning because they voted for Biden....... Then I was removed from the cemetary."
Just goes to show that even a cadaver is smarter than a Trumpanzee.
Shucks, one less QC commentator. Is this the quotation drone?
Instead of the left blaming the right and the right blaming the left, we should all be blaming radical Islamists for this.
If you wanted this WAR to continue you should have signed up and requested to be sent over . If you did not. SHUT HE F**K Up, Cowards. I'm sure most of you have never served and if you did you were never sent into battle or you would understand.
Don't listen to the TV Talking heads, their kids never go. So don't be a sucker.
Send your kids, your grandkids .Go ahead . I dare you . Let them join NOW if you like this WAR so much.
It is so funny seeing the comments from hipster nitwits here - the surge in immigrants will mean that you will never afford the lifestyle of your parents or grandparents. Every time you bring in these people its more competition for resources, and it's lowering the expectations on the standard of living.
So go ahead. Mindlessly accept what you are taught in school.
But perhaps you should make the effort to catch the guy behind the curtain. They are not living as messed up as you. Try thinking for a change and form your own conclusions about what is good for you. Letting other people do it means you will always get the short end of the stick. Your Generation is a batch of Nitwits.
She needs some U.S. hair conditioner, just saying...
@TheSheeple said... Fuck off !
By the way Sheeple, 51 members of Congress and their spouses own up to $5.8 million worth of defense contractor stocks — stocks that see massive returns when we engage in endless, unwinnable wars.
@“ If you wanted this WAR to continue you should have signed up and requested to be sent over .”
Very true. If half of the chicken hawks who cheered for this caught and sent their families to fight , we’d have far less “conservatives” to put up with now.
@“ Anonymous said...
Instead of the left blaming the right and the right blaming the left, we should all be blaming radical Islamists for this.”
Sure. And radical war mongers of all types. And every politician that voted for this war. And “W”.
It's Bidens fault. People should have never voted for him. He does not care about any of you.
My tenant told me that it's Trump's fault, So I raised her rent.
Remember Bachman,Turner, Overdrive You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Voter’s remorse kicking in…
@"Anonymous Anonymous said...
It is so funny seeing the comments from hipster nitwits here - the surge in immigrants will mean that you will never afford the lifestyle of your parents or grandparents. Every time you bring in these people its more competition for resources, and it's lowering the expectations on the standard of living."
Says someone who probably cheered on this war and the Iraq war that will cause this new influx of influx of immigrants.
Says someone who probably cheered on this war and the Iraq war that will cause this new influx of influx of immigrants.
Why does a war bring in a new influx of immigrants?
Only the Democratic Machine wants us to be a Banana Republic with a small elite living in a gated community while the rest of us live in slowly advancing 3rd world squalor.
About time you Hipsters start to grow up and do your own thinking instead of sitting around flirting with each other as someone else does the thinking for you:
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/20/after-afghanistan-no-more-moral-blackmail-from-failed-global-interventionists/
I can't imagine why anyone would vote for Biden, but on the other hand, I can't imagine why we spent 20 years defending a group of people who hate us and should have been able to protect themselves. Certainly, it's much like what we have in the USA, many of us are appalled at the election of Joe Biden, but it's what the American people wanted, just as it's what the Afghan people wanted when they chose not to fight for their own country. A lot of similarities here. American troops should have been withdrawn the day after Osama was killed. That was out mission, wasn't it? Now we all have to face the music that should have been played by the last two presidents, who didn't have the courage to do what should have been done, and which is being done now. As ugly as it is!
Tucker warns we are living through the biggest influx of refugees in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezdCvWGF88&ab_channel=FoxNews
“ Anonymous said...
Tucker warns we are living through the biggest influx of refugees in history.”
Tucker the fuc..r should blame himself and his employer for cheerleading this war in the first place. You Break it, then you fix it. He can put them up in his place.
"Anonymous said...
Tucker warns "
Do you mean This Tucker?
The Left: They never had common sense to begin with.
Trump: Make America Great Again
Taliban: Death to America
Biden: Camp david is nice
Thanks to WOKE General Mark Milley the U.S. is at terrible risk ! Wonder why it was said that Trump didn't trust his generals.
Hey, I hear they make great Shish Kebabs. Yummy. Pizza parlors are a dime a dozen, now Shish Kebabs and hummus, that's a welcome change. Then again most of the whiners who post comments here live in the back end of nowhere. The only choice you unfortunates have is some run down Taco Bell 2 hours drive down the road. I feel your pain.
Let me get this straight. Joe withdrew 2500 troops and immediately replaced them with 6000 troops?
A message to all the "Tolerant" Left trained sheeple here on Queens Crap:
"If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names."
Oscar Wilde
"Anonymous said...
Trump: Make America Great Again
Taliban: Death to America
Biden: Camp david is nice"
I think you mis-quoted.
Trump: The Taliban are wonderful people. Very smart and tough.
At this point the Whitehouse has become the most expensive care home in the world
Hiden Biden's poor performance is not recent, but he has been weak for 47 years in politics, including 8 years as deputy for Obuma.
Biden is clearly not capable of doing his #1 job, protecting Americans. He must resign or be impeached. Americans do not feel safe with this administration.
John Wick said...
We need a all new administration. This is the worst administration in U.S. history. I could have done a better job than they have done. I can not believe these WOKE high ups in the military, they should be court marshalled for the way they handled this whole thing in Afghanistan. American citizens should have been taken out first and none of our military equipment and guns should have been left behind either.
The situation at the Kabul Airport is horrific, people are passing out in the heat and being crushed in the crowds, medics are running from one casualty to another.
Commander in Chief Biden is clueless.
John Wick said...
Can we trade the Cuomo clowns, the woke women’s soccer team and Lebron for our American citizens stranded in Afghanistan?
Only 'sickos' are defending President Biden !
It’s always the same old same old anti refugee crap!
What country did your ancestors come from before making the USA their home?
Unless you’re indigenous First Nation (miscalled Indians) you’re an immigrant!
FUCK OFF NOW AND RETURN TO YOUR ANCESTORS COUNTRY OF ORIGIN!
YEAH!
Without the contributions of immigrants to America....we’d be a backward 3rd world nation!
Who in the hell do you think you White trailer trash mentalities think you are?
Einstein, Edison, yadda yadda yadda! ALL immigrants!
Only Kentucky type hillbillies think they’re superior !
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