Afghan Evacuees Watch and Wait for Congress to Pull Them Out of Legal Limbo
The two plastic picnic tables formed a V around the advocates resting on lawn chairs, bundled against the chill of early fall. They had spent two weeks sitting on the lawn outside the Capitol building, sandwiched between its marble pillars and Senate office buildings on the other side of the street. A coalition of organizations and activists, veterans and recent émigrés, had manned the station day and night, chatting with passing staffers and lawmakers. The Afghan and American flags, standing at the corners of the tables... Читать дальше...