The Biden administration is notifying states of how many Afghan evacuees they'll be asked resettle. California's projected to take more than 5,200 people out of the first group of nearly 37,000 who fled during the final days of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal.
from among the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states.
The administration has requested funding from Congress to help resettle 65,000 Afghans in the United States by the end of this month and 95,000 by September 2022. President Joe Biden tapped the former governor of his home state of Delaware, Jack Markell, to temporarily serve as his point person on resettling Afghan evacuees in the United States.States with a historically large number of Afghans who resettled in the U.S.
The State Department resettled evacuees based on the advice of local affiliates of nine national resettlement agencies the U.S. government is working with, the officials said.
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