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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Forgot to add that there is a whole political issue that is also a huge factor. The baby's parents were killed on or around September 5, 2019.

A few months before this was the time when the US was negotiating a withdrawal with the Taliban. The talks between U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and top Taliban official Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar centered on the United States withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan in exchange for the Taliban pledging to block international terrorist groups from operating on Afghan soil.

So the position of the US and Taliban was that there weren't foreign fighters yet villagers and Army rangers say there were. So it was in the interest of officials on both sides to say a baby found was not foreign but Afghani.

This is also why DNA testing needs to be done. [/quote]

1) the video you linked shows a little girl with dark hair. WITW are you talking about?

2) there are laws that handle situations like this, and as already discussed in posts above, the placement of the child falls under Afghan law. It doesn’t matter what you think or what you want to make you satisfied. It doesn’t matter what I think and it certainly doesn’t matter what the Masts think. Under Afghan law, a child that loses its parents is to be placed with a willing family member. If that isn’t possible, then the child is to be placed with a Muslim Afghan family. Joshua Mast is not an Afghan citizen and he’s also not Muslim. End of story. He has zero claim to this child when she was on Afghan soil. And luring her caretakers to bring her all the way to the US (aka child trafficking) doesn’t change that either.

The US is not going to ignore treaties and laws covering child trafficking and the courts have said as much. Under Afghan law a DNA is irrelevant. If the couple were to take a DNA test and it finds 0% difference they’re not disqualified from being the rightful guardians. You don’t seem to understand that. It has zero bearing in the case. [/quote]

At 1:19 the video shows a blond kid. The child deserves to know who her biological family is. A DNA test absolutely is critical to resolving the case.

What  Afghan government? The Taliban? The US doesn’t even recognize the Afghan govt . And neither do most countries. [/quote]

The State Department absolutely does recognize and work with the Afghan government which right now is the Taliban. What have you been smoking? [/quote]

This is from the State Department website:
On February 29, 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed the Doha Agreement, which led to the August 30, 2021, withdrawal of U.S. and Allied forces from Afghanistan. Since the forcible takeover by the Taliban in August 2021, culminating in the fall of Kabul on August 15, the United States has shifted to a position of pragmatic engagement in Afghanistan. The United States has not yet made a decision as to whether to recognize the Taliban or any other entity as the Government of Afghanistan or as part of such a government.[/quote]

I work there. Troll harder. [/quote]

You work where? The U.S. Department of State or Afghanistan? If you work for the US Department of State then you would know their website states that the US hasn't yet recognized the Afghani government. The quote is from their website - https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/afghanistan/

This is an article from Al Jazeera on June 23, 2023 - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/22/afghan-women-ban-makes-taliban-recognition-near-impossible-un

"Afghanistan’s Taliban government is not officially recognised by any foreign country or international organisation since seizing power in August 2021 as United States and NATO forces were in the final weeks of withdrawing from the country after two decades of war."

I am not a troll. I am not a Mast supporter. I don't think the child should ever have been brought to the United States. I am just a really skeptical person. I don't believe the Masts, but I also have doubts about what the military has released and what the whole story is behind the Afghani couple who appear to be refusing to provide a DNA sample.

AP published pictures from an AP photographer according to the credits -  showing the mud and straw huts that were destroyed and described the place as a remote and impoverished region, [b]"Here in this rugged desert, families live among the ruins of a 20-year war — rusted tanks, bombed-out houses, bullet-riddled buildings. Dust kicks up from the wheels of motorcycles on dirt paths, where squat mud homes blend into mountains that stretch for miles in every direction. It is a hard life: There are no paved roads, no running water or electricity, no bathrooms or cell service."[/b] https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-raid-marine-orphan-custody-1e73bba608994a53fca37b904dfd9a81

[b]So this farmer with ten kids who lives this hard life in the remote countryside coincidently has a nephew who according to the Afghan governments seems to be the ideal Afghan in the eyes of many Americans - they live in a city with access to a hospital, they are educated, he not only worked in a medical clinic he also ran a co-ed school, the wife graduated from high-school at the top of her class and is fluent in three languages, and they married for love and not in an arranged marriage[/b].

Am I seriously the only one who thinks this is a little over the top?

And this girl has three orphaned siblings including a young brother who was injured in the same attack and spent a month in the hospital. Why hasn't this couple ever tried to get custody of him as well his two other siblings?

So again, I don't think the baby ever should have been brought to the United States. What the Masts did is absolutely wrong, and I also don't understand how they managed to keep her for so long. However, now that she is here  DNA testing should be required because that is what is often done in other cases when there are unaccompanied refugee minors.   From Afghanistan alone there have been over 1,000 unaccompanied minors.

The government policy when there is doubt is DNA testing. 
FIELD GUIDANCE – Revised January 6, 2023 (First Issued on September 4, 2021)
RE: Field Guidance #19 – Unaccompanied Afghan Minor Processing
ORR [Office of Refugee Resettlement]determines a prior bona fide relationship exists, including to the satisfaction of ORR that the adult caregiver is entrusted with supervision of the child.
i. If there is a biological relationship between the child and the caregiver, ORR may use DNA testing, to the extent feasible, to determine such relationship

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