Chuck Grassley Blocks Republican Establishment’s Green Card Giveaway for Biden’s Afghans

Following the U.S. Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Biden opened a refugee pipeline that has resettled more than 86,000 Afghans in American communities — many without having to be screened or interviewed in person beforehand.

For months, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Roy Blunt (R-MO) have garnered more GOP support for their Afghan Adjustment Act that would give green cards to most of the Afghans brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration.

Most recently, Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) signed onto the plan, joining Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

The group of Senators failed to get the green card plan into the year-end National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and were hoping to slip it into the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package but failed, thanks to pushback from Grassley.