The United States is evaluating what to do with hundreds of people, mostly Afghans, who boarded American flights without permission to leave Afghanistan or were

evacuated by private companies,

and now wait in Doha and other places with no clues as to their destination.

This was indicated on Monday by a senior State Department official, who also revealed that

there are still about 100 US citizens

and permanent

US

residents

in Afghanistan

who want to leave that country, but it is difficult to evacuate them due to lack of cooperation. of the Taliban.

"We have had challenges with passengers once they disembark (in third countries on evacuation flights). We have had

stowaways

, airport personnel who have boarded the plane, people who disembark who were not on the boarding list," said the official at a telephone press conference.

There have even been

"unaccompanied minors,

who traveled without parents or legal guardian," and the US government does not "necessarily know who they are or why they believe they may qualify" for asylum in the United States, added the official, who requested the anonymity.

To those who sneaked onto official US planes, we must add those who were evacuated on private flights, like 155 who got on at the last minute on

a plane chartered by Facebook at the end of August,

according to press reports.

The State Department is reviewing the circumstances of each of these stowaways to "try to identify people who can legitimately say that today they face a serious risk" if they continue in Afghanistan, because they have "active threats" against them, the source explained.

That implies that not all of them will necessarily be able to move to the United States, but "some could go to other countries that collaborate with UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)," he added.

The official did not respond directly to the question of whether the United States

could return some of them to Afghanistan

if it is determined that they are not at risk.

Meanwhile, the State Department is still suspending the entry into the country of Afghans evacuated from Kabul, due to the

detection of several cases of measles

among refugees who had already arrived in the United States, the official confirmed.

The US authorities are conducting a "massive vaccination campaign" against measles among Afghans temporarily evacuated to the United Arab Emirates and other countries, and waiting for them to achieve sufficient immunity against measles before transferring them to the United States.

Regarding the Americans in Afghanistan, he explained that since August 31, when the withdrawal of international troops was completed, the US government has helped

at least 85 citizens of their country and 79 permanent residents

to leave the country

.

There are still at least 100 US citizens or permanent residents in Afghanistan who are "ready to leave" the country, and helping them do so is "the highest priority" of the administration of President

Joe Biden,

according to the source.

There are two obstacles that are making it difficult for the operation to get them, the official explained: "the unpredictability of the Taliban about who they allow to leave" and "the absence of regular commercial air services," and the US is addressing those two issues directly. with representatives of the insurgent group in Doha.

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