Senator Tex Cruz blasted President Biden after reporting that several adult Afghan refugee men had arrived in the United States with unmarried children.
“There have been multiple cases of child brides and polygamous families coming from Afghanistan arriving at military bases here in America as part of their evacuation,” the Texas Republican said in a statement Friday.
“These reports are credible and horrible. President Biden had no plans for a safe, orderly and responsible withdrawal from Afghanistan. Instead, the president and Biden-Harris officials imposed arbitrary deadlines for political purposes. ”
Cruz said he had advocated for refugees to face additional tests in third countries and accused the president of importing “an acute human rights crisis into the United States.”
The issue came to light after an internal State Department document “reported multiple cases of underage women appearing” married “to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families,” arriving in Fort McCoy, in about 100 miles northwest of Madison, Wisconsin. .
The document continued to ask with official guidance on how best to proceed, the Associated Press reported.
