U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell wants more information on the vetting process for Afghan refugees at Air Force bases in New Mexico to address her security concerns.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has said the state plans to aid refugees seeking asylum.
“I will be visiting Holloman AFB ... to review living conditions for refugees as well as their vetting process and plans for their future,” Herrell wrote on Twitter on Sept.6. “I will report on the situation as soon as possible. The people of New Mexico deserve transparency.”
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Texas, Virginia, and New Jersey are other states who are also resettling Afghan refugees, according to KRQE.
“Maybe the Americans Biden abandoned in Afghanistan were unvaccinated, and thus under his logic bringing them here would have endangered the vaccinated ones,” Billy Gribbin, communications director for Herrell, wrote on Twitter.
Herrell visited the Holloman Air Force Base on Sept. 7.
It's expected that at least 50,000 Afghan refugees will be admitted into the United States through multiple bases all over the nation, KRQE reported, and the Department of Homeland Security said that tens of thousands of refugees have already made it into the U.S.
“For weeks, Rep. Herrell has insisted upon Congressional oversight following Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Gribbin said in an email to KRQE. “Rep. Herrell believes that New Mexicans deserve transparency in a process that has been clouded by the Biden administration’s incompetence thus far.”