As many as 600 Afghans were resettled in Tennessee under a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy decision made under President Joe Biden, whose administration authorized humanitarian parole for about 76,000 citizens of Afghanistan who were evacuated from the country following Biden's withdrawal of the American military. 

The Biden administration's DHS announced the resettlement program, called Operation Allies Welcome, on August 29, just one day before the final U.S. forces would leave Afghanistan in a scene that would be compared to the imagery of the fall of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, during the Vietnam War.

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