The Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved of a resolution urging President Joe Biden to extend extra support towards Afghan refugees seeking to flee the Taliban’s violent regime. “This is our commitment as a country to that fight that we have always espoused, which is the fight for democracy for basic human dignity for human rights, and opportunity and justice for all,” Chairman Andrew Do said at the Aug. 24 meeting. “We don’t have to surmise; we don’t have to imagine we have seen things that have happened under these totalitarian regimes. We have seen the Uyghurs being incarcerated and mass in China. We have seen genocides played out over and over, whether they’re communists or there’s some kind of totalitarian under whatever philosophy … the damage they’ve done to their people.” Do, along with Vice Chair Doug Chaffee, created a three-step plan in an attempt to convey to …
Orange County Board of Supervisors Urge Biden to Support Afghan Refugees
August 24, 2021
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