Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee issued a subpoena on Tuesday, seeking to legally compel the Department of Homeland Security to turn over documents explaining how its personnel screened evacuees during the Biden administration’s military withdrawal and civilian evacuation from Afghanistan in 2021.
House Republicans have pursued the DHS records for months while raising allegations that the department had not implemented a proper vetting process as it rapidly resettled approximately 88,500 Afghan nationals in the United States. In a Tuesday press statement, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said he was pursuing the subpoena after waiting more than 160 days for the department to provide “satisfactory documents and other materials” sought by Republicans.
