An Afghan refugee at Marine Corps Base Quantico committed an “unlawful act with a child,” according to an Inspector General (IG) report.
“Quantico had one major criminal security incident and it involved an Afghan evacuee committing what appeared to be an unlawful act with a child,” the IG report stated, according to Military.com. The outlet added that “Security personnel quickly decided the incident violated U.S. law and turned the refugee over to the FBI.”
The Daily Caller added that the incident occurred at base in Virginia last year following President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 U.S. troops dead and hundreds behind in the nation, which was quickly taken over by the Taliban. Thousands of Afghan refugees were housed at Quantico awaiting resettlement when the incident occurred.
The IG report also found that 3,755 refugees were briefly housed at Quantico before the last were resettled ahead of Christmas, racking up a $188 million bill for the Marine Corps and Pentagon.
“The cost of the housing effort reported this week by the Defense Department inspector general is a snapshot of Operation Allies Welcome, the mission of eight stateside bases to host 67,000 Afghan refugees airlifted out of Kabul at the end of August when the U.S. military ended all operations in Afghanistan after a 20-year war,” Military.com reported.
The Marine base has already been reimbursed $138 million in a bill signed by Biden.
As The Daily Wire reported last September, this was not the only incident involving Afghan refugees, though the vast majority of refugees committed no crimes while in the U.S.
“Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and with three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one count alleging the use of force,” the Department of Justice said in a statement in September. “The indictment alleges that the victims had not attained the age of 16 years and were at least four years younger than the defendant.”
“Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her,” the statement continued. “The indictment alleges that the assault occurred on September 7, 2021.”
The DOJ made clear the cases were not related. Both took place in Wisconsin.
Part of the issue with refugees came from the weak vetting they underwent by the Biden administration, as The New York Times reported last year
Refugees pushed their way onto airplanes. Hundreds of children were separated from their parents. Rogue flights landed without manifests. Security vetting of refugees was done in hours or days, rather than months or years. …
American officials have said the refugees are being thoroughly vetted, with the authorities feeding fingerprints, portraits and biographical information into federal databases to weed out potential risks. Mr. Mayorkas said the Defense Department had sent hundreds of biometric screening machines to 30 countries. …
But unclassified briefing documents titled “2021 Afghanistan Repatriation Mission” reveal that in some cases, spotty information is being collected: Flight manifests have been at times incomplete or missing, visa or citizenship status is unknown, and there is a lack of basic demographic data.