If the Biden administration’s estimate of ‘close to 100’ people stranded in Afghanistan is even remotely accurate, around 25% of them are students, along with a three-year-old boy from Sacramento, California.
As the Sacramento Bee reports, San Juan Unified school district staff confirmed that 24 students are stranded in Afghanistan.
“Our office has been in close contact with the San Juan Unified School District, and have urgently flagged the students’ information with the State Department and Department of Defense,” said staffers from Sacramento Congressman Ami Bera’s office, adding “We have not received an update from the State Department or the DOD.”
It’s unclear when more Sacramento-area residents will board flights to return from Kabul. It’s been more than two weeks since Taliban leaders took control of country’s capital.
Evacuation flights ferried tens of thousands of people from Kabul before and after a bombing at the airport killed more than 170 people, including 13 service members. Marine Sgt Nicole Gee of Roseville was among US military service members killed. –Sacramento Bee
According to the report, a number of refugees will be resettled in Sacramento – one of the largest destinations for special visa holders – and home to approximately one out of every nine Afghan natives living in America. Around 9,700 Afghans live in Sacramento County – more than any other in the US, according to census data.
Another stranded child, a 3-year-old Sacramento boy, is “going through a harrowing ordeal right now, unable to escape Afghanistan,” according to ABC7 News, which is not revealing his identity, that of his social worker father, or any other family members who are all US permanent residents, “for fear of them being captured by the Taliban.”
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