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Every Afghan national seeking resettlement in the United States is supposed to be screened against at least seven federal databases, checked for biometric matches against 2.5 million records collected during combat operations in Afghanistan, and run through the FBI’s fingerprint identification system.
Gil Guerra is a contributing writer at The Dispatch and a fellow at Hudson Institute. A specialist in politics, security, and technology in Latin America and the Caribbean, he is a 2026-27 Novak Fellow with the Fund for American Studies.
