republican senators demanded the president do everything in his power to safely extract all americans and afghan alliesit would be unconscionable to leave any behind they wroteas the republican rift grows between those seeking to resettle afghans and farright lawmakers or commentators feeding nativist fears about an influx of evacuees some democrats were calling out the dichotomyall the republicans saying we have a moral duty to evacuate afghans and all the republicans saying we have a moral duty to keep refugees out of the country are going to have to get together and have a chat real soon senator chris murphy said friday