Amerish Bera actually said...

We will continue to help them, and we will continue to help any American who still wants to leave and Afghans to whom we have a special comm...

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.