Sep 16, 2021

775 evacuees from Afghanistan expected to settle in Nebraska

Posted Sep 16, 2021 11:55 AM
U.S. Army soldiers with the  82nd Airborne Division escort evacuees to buses at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. -photo courtesy U.S. Dept. of Defense
U.S. Army soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division escort evacuees to buses at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. -photo courtesy U.S. Dept. of Defense

(AP)-About 775 evacuees from Afghanistan are expected to settle in Nebraska as part of the first group arriving in the United States.  

State department data obtained by The Associated Press detailed how a first wave of 37,000 Afghanistan evacuees will be resettled across the country after they fled from their country when the U.S. ended its long war there and withdrew last month.

The Biden administration on Wednesday began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many are slated to be resettled in their states.