Amerish Bera actually said...

We have surged Customs and Border Patrol. We have surged our intelligence and law enforcement capacity to do those initial checks.

There is nothing that China would have liked more than for us to have reupped the war in Afghanistan.

The alternative, should we choose to stay, was for the Taliban to resume attacks.

I agree with President Biden's decision to withdraw. I think most of the American public agrees with that decision.