by Audrey Conklin at Fox News
Republican North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy‘s office has helped 80 at-risk people escape from Afghanistan since last week after the Biden administration ordered a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country.
Murphy, with assistance from office staff, including Afghanistan veteran and Georgetown student Kevin Ryan, helped rescue 13 Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders and their families last week and 67 more this week.
“We’ve had a couple of our congressional staff … working night and day trying to get these at-risk individuals out of Afghanistan,” Murphy told Fox News. “Really doing the work of our State Department and trying to process people — get them the paperwork that they need — to get them out of the country as best as we can, but we don’t have any people on the ground. We don’t have any assets on the ground.”…
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