Sultan Knish: How the 'Interpreter' Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America

Sultan Knish: How the 'Interpreter' Scam Brought 75,000 Iraqis and Afghans to America
"The latest battle over Special Immigrant Visas pitted Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior advisor, against the Pentagon.
The military brass was lobbying for 6,000 special immigrant visas for Iraqis who worked for American forces in the country.
These visas were once again billed as helping “interpreters”.
That’s a lot of interpreters considering that there were only 5,200 American troops in Iraq.
How could there be more Iraqi interpreters for American troops than there are troops?
The Special Immigrant Visa scam has been sold for over a decade...
...The truth is that the military brass has wrongly used the incentive of Special Immigrant Visas to recruit local personnel and cut costs by promising them resettlement in the United States. 
Considering the costs of resettling even the nicest Iraqi or Afghan families, it would have been cheaper to pay each of them a six-figure salary...."
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