WASHINGTON: The United States of America will use a military base in Virginia to temporarily house Afghan interpreters fleeing their home country due to the withdrawal of US forces after 20 years of war, officials said Monday 19th day of June, 2021). 
Around 700 interpreters and other Afghans who helped the United States of America will be taken to Fort Lee, an army post in southern Virginia, along with immediate family members, for a total of two thousand five hundred people, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
The interpreters — who worked for the United States and fear for their lives as the Taliban make rapid gains in Afghanistan — are among some 20,000 applying for asylum under so-called Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).
“These are brave Afghans,” Price said, “who have completed thorough SIV security vetting processes.”
“They will be provided temporary housing and services as they complete the final steps,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that Afghan interpreters could go to other military installations as well and that he did not expect most of them to stay beyond a few days.
“You have to remember that these people and their families are in the very final stages of the SIV process so there’s just not a need for them to be on a military installation for long before they’ll work through the resettlement process,” Kirby said.
The White House has said that some twenty thousand Afghans have applied to move to the United States of America under the program.
Afghans who are in more initial stages will be flown to other countries, which have not been publicly identified, as well as to US military bases overseas as their cases are examined, officials said.

According to an official statement at President Biden’s direction, America is launching Operation Allies Refuge to support relocation flights for interested and eligible Afghan nationals and their families who had supported the US and their partners in Afghanistan. Former US president George W. Bush, said he thought withdrawal was a mistake as the civilians who helped them were being left behind to be decapitated by Taliban: “Laura (Bush) and I spent a lot of time with Afghan women, and they’re scared. And I think about all the interpreters and people that helped not only US troops but NATO troops, and it seems like they’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people. And it breaks my heart!”

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