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What It's Like Inside the US Processing Center Welcoming Thousands of Afghans
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- contingencies 5y agoI once met someone who worked in the Australian department processing refugee applications. They told me that they had a bunch of professional analysts who could identify false stories by asking hyper-local / endemic trivia: things like the shape of buildings, the local names of geographical features, the dates of recurring endemic events, etc. They said the number of Pakistanis trying it on as Afghan refugees was ridiculous. This would have been early noughties.
- 908B64B197 5y agoI'm skeptical about a lot of asylum claims coming out of Afghanistan simply because of how fast the ANA capitulated. This reeks of double allegiance. In some regions, the village elders accompanied by ANA soldiers were welcoming the Taliban and cheering for their return. Families frequently sent their sons to fight on both sides of the conflict. Now those who were affiliated with the ANA will suddenly claim they are "threatened" and try hustling western passports...