(Daily Caller) Houston, Texas, was seen as one of the cities most equipped to care for the massive numbers of Afghans granted parolee status in the U.S. after the August 2021 withdrawal. The resettlement system has all but collapsed under the weight of their needs, volunteers told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Texas’ largest city, with its abundant jobs and large existing Afghan refugee community, has welcomed at least 5,000 parolees, more than any city besides Washington, D.C., according to State Department data obtained by the New York Times. Many case officers assigned to help individual families with resettlement have abandoned their charges, turning the Biden administration’s federal welcome program to a herculean volunteer effort to stave off poverty and isolation, volunteers said.
