Last Afghan evacuees prepare to depart Defense Department installations in US
CNN
The last several hundred Afghan evacuees who have been living on domestic military bases are expected to depart those installations over the next week, according to a Homeland Security official, marking an end to part of a months-long operation to resettle tens of thousands of Afghans.
For many Afghan nationals who arrived in the US following the frenzied evacuation of Afghanistan, their first stop was a domestic military base. Last fall, there had been more than 50,000 people at military bases in the United States, but after extensive processing and vetting, they have gradually moved to communities across the country.
The Biden administration used eight Defense Department installations to support the resettlement of Afghans. Now, only two remain: Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. Officials previously told CNN the administration was on track to resettle Afghans to their new communities in the US by mid-February.