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Afghan refugees coming to Ohio headed to Cleveland

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Afghan Refugees Arrive At Dulles Airport Refugees evacuated from Kabul Afghanistan walk from Dulles International Airport to a bus that will take them to a refugee processing center on August 26, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia. With a deadline of August 31 looming, and the detonation of a bomb earlier today near the Kabul airport, pressure to evacuate allied support personnel and Americans is rapidly increasing. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

By WHIO Staff

MIAMI VALLEY — Thousands of Afghan people are fleeing their country as the Taliban has taken over as the United States moves forward with plans to withdrawal from the country.

News Center 7 wanted to know where those people might end up if they come to the United States.

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Mike Lehner, spokesman for Catholic Social Services, said Cleveland would be the primary resettlement site in Ohio for Afghans with special immigrant visas.

Catholic Social Services is the official refugee resettlement agency in the Miami Valley.

Lehner said the people who would be resettling here in Ohio are people who worked for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

However, the situation is changing daily and some of the Afghans could be sent to the Miami Valley in the future, Lehner said.

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