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The american government brought unvetted Afghans directly to the US

Lora made a claim in her Telegraph article stating that the US Government had brought unvetted Afghans directly into the US. She provides no source for this. We have dug into the claim and provided numerous sources below from both sides. At the time of writing. Most of the evidence points to this being true. Especially a specific 2022 OIG report into DHS which claims the agency was not achieving accurate vetting especially when contrasted with the requirements of vetting someone from a failed state effectively. However. DHS responded to said report with the following statement. DHS said in a statement Wednesday on the inspector general's report that it "does not concur with the two recommendations made in the DHS Office of Inspector General's (OIG) report regarding Operation Allies Welcome (OAW)." The department also strongly disputed the watchdog's conclusions about the Afghan evacuee vetting. "Despite the fact that, on multiple occasions, DHS provided the OIG with a comprehensive understanding of the OAW vetting and screening process, the OIG's report does not accurately characterize that rigorous and multi-layered screening and vetting process, including the critical roles of multiple other federal agencies," the DHS statement continued. "Further, the report does not accurately account for the fact that all individuals paroled into the United States as part of OAW are already subject to continuous vetting." DHS stated that Afghan and other foreign nationals alike who enter the U.S. must undergo recurrent vetting, "to ensure the continued protection of public safety and national security." And if derogatory information surfaces after the evacuees entered the U.S., federal law enforcement would "take appropriate action, such as opening a criminal investigation, commencing a prosecution, revoking parole, and/or placing the individual in removal proceedings."  The department also said it would continue working with federal partners "to continue to support the resettlement of qualifying Afghan nationals in the United States." As such we have a problem. The inspector general who audited the department says it isn't up to scratch. The department disagrees and says they're robustly doing their job. As such we recommend checking out the evidence and coming to your own conclusions.