A coming effort to resettle thousands of Afghan refugees across the United States has already begun to divide Republicans, who nonetheless remain steadfastly unified in their criticism of the evacuation effort that made the resettlement possible.

Some GOP lawmakers have raised concerns about how much the Biden administration will vet the Afghans it plans to bring to the U.S. for a virtually unprecedented resettlement effort — while others have embraced the idea of welcoming Afghans who assisted U.S. forces on the grounds that failing to do so would dissuade civilians in other countries from helping the American military in the future.