At least 32 American children from California are still stranded in the chaotic, dystopian world that is known as Afghanistan even though it was Monday when the final military evacuation flight left Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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These American students are from the San Juan School District near Sacramento and they noted that 29 American students are presently stranded in Afghanistan, according to the Daily Mail.
Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, California announced the same that there were three American students from the same family that was still in Afghanistan.
Last week, Blaze Media reported that at least 24 students and their American parents from this Cajon Valley district that had visited Afghanistan earlier in the summer were still trapped in the country even in the midst of the Taliban completing their takeover. That week, Cajon Valley Superintendent David Miyashiro said that the students and adults had traveled to Afghanistan on a special visa for U.S. military services to visit extended relatives, explaining that they would be meeting with California congressman Darrell Issa to figure out how they locate and rescue these stranded families.
A spokesperson for the California Republican said that the congressman and his staff were “working diligently to determine the facts on the ground, any bureaucratic barriers that can be removed, and the best ways to help those stranded leave Afghanistan and return home safely.”
On Tuesday, the San Juan Unified School District told Newsweek that these 29 stranded American students came from 19 different families.
The outlet noted that the Sacramento-area school district had been home to more than 1,400 Afghan refugee students. It was rumored that as many as 150 students had been previously stranded in Afghanistan.
“We stand ready to support these students and families in whatever way that we can, and are working closely with state-elected officials to provide the information as we receive it from our families. San Juan Unified stands with our Afghan community and all those whose loved ones are currently in Afghanistan. We sincerely hope for their speedy and safe return back to the U.S. and back to our school communities,” a district representative told Newsweek in a statement regarding this matter.
What else?
was interviewed by Fox News and said that his office and the district continue to work hand-in-hand to bring these American students home. However, Representative Bera also noted that President Biden has yet to give an update on just how they are going to help them patch up the logistics and bring these kids home.
“Our office has been in close contact with the San Juan Unified School District, and has urgently flagged this with the Department of Defense and State Department. We have not received an update from DOD or State,” a spokesperson for Bera told the outlet.
The Biden Administration continues to insist that they believe that the Taliban are going to permit American citizens to leave the country even though the military evacuations have ended.
President Biden said during his Tuesday briefing “I was not going to extend this forever war, and I was not going to extend a forever exit. We succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan over a decade ago. It was time to end this war.”