{"id":7387,"date":"2021-10-25T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:07:17","slug":"congressman-darrell-issa-helps-bring-another-american-family-back-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7387","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Darrell Issa Helps Bring Another American Family Back from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sasha Reva<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representative Darrell Issa proudly announced that him and his team have evacuated another American citizen who worked as a U.S. Army translator and his wife from Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday, we can celebrate another American family we have helped escape from Afghanistan,\u201d Issa said. \u201cBut the celebration can\u2019t last too long because we have much work to do and hundreds of Americans to bring home to their loved ones.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congressman Issa has evacuated more people from Afghanistan compared to Biden, who left Americans behind.\u00a0 Prince Wafa, who was a translator working in Afghanistan, traveled to Afghanistan to bring his wife home. He was a small business manager from San Diego. <\/span>He contacted U.S. State Department on August 29th and had no response. After that he contacted Darrell Issa\u2019s office and he was the one who saved his family. Issa has officially helped about 40 families to evacuate safely from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am so grateful to Congressman Issa and his team for their dedication and nonstop effort to help me and my wife leave Afghanistan and come home to America,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPrince Wafa provided outstanding support for our troops and bravely served our country when we were in need,\u201d Issa said. \u201cThis time, he risked all by returning to Afghanistan to bring his wife home. The Biden administration left them behind and we didn\u2019t rest until they were on their way home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A former U.S. Army translator and his wife safely returned home and they are really thankful for everything Congressman Darrell Issa and his great staff did for their family. Wafa and his wife are currently in a refugee camp in Doha, Qatar, the same camp where a bipartisan group of representatives including Congressman Issa were denied entry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Office of Darrell Issa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sasha Reva Representative Darrell Issa proudly announced that him and his team have evacuated another American citizen who worked as a U.S. Army translator and his wife from Afghanistan. \u201cToday, we can celebrate another American family we have helped escape from Afghanistan,\u201d Issa said. \u201cBut the celebration can\u2019t last too long because we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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