Seven families in the San Diego area who had been trapped in Afghanistan amid the Taliban acquisition have now been evacuated, with one family still trapped in the country, according to local California school district officials.
The Associated Press reported Monday for the first time that six families of the The Cajon Valley Union school district had safely distinguished him. Superintendent David Miyashiro confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that the total number had risen to seven.
The superintendent said that according to the school district’s family and community liaison department, four families “have returned safely to the Cajon Valley,” with two additional families in the United States en route to the San Diego area.
He added that another family had been evacuated from Afghanistan and was returning to the US
Miyashiro said students who were able to return to school this week were greeted with “open arms from their teachers and classmates.”
The superintendent said he is still following a family with three students in Afghanistan President Biden
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Miyashiro told The Hill that officials were “exploring strategies to rescue them and take them home.”
Miyashiro told Fox-affiliated local station KSWB that the family included an eighth-grade student from the area.
“He said it was chaos,” Miyashiro said of the student. “You could see in his eyes, anxiety and fear.”
“We are hopeful because we know where they are,” added the superintendent, who works with the U.S. representative. Darrell Now
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“We have information based on our agents engaging with the family community, so we know where they are, we know how to get there, and there are still ways to do that,” Miyashiro told the local press. “It’s a lot more complicated now.”
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that more than 20 students and 16 parents from the school district had traveled to Afghanistan for the summer holidays before becoming among the thousands of Americans the U.S. was working to evacuate after the consolidation of Taliban power.
The Biden administration officially ended its weeks of U.S. military evacuation flights from Afghanistan on Monday, though it was a White House national security adviser. Jake Sullivan
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“We are working closely with other countries to make charter flights work in the short term,” Sullivan said, adding that the administration was also “working with neighboring countries to be able to accept U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents who travel across borders to have them processed and safely removed from the country. ”
Updated at 12:10 p.m.