A bill introduced in the House last week would require the State Department to restart Afghan refugee travel, as a series of actions taken by the Trump Administration have effectively halted resettlement.

The Enduring Welcome Act would require the department to reopen its office of the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts, or CARE, which was closed last month, and its staff was laid off.

Democrat Scott Peters, one of the bill's co-sponsors, said at a news conference on Wednesday at the USS Midway Museum, alongside Afghans and community advocates, that the U.S. is failing tens of thousands of its former allies.

"It's reprehensible that we're failing our Afghan allies now," he said. "Even Afghans who made it to the United States are at risk of losing the stability and security that t

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