What It's Like Inside The U.S. Processing Center Welcoming Thousands Of Afghans

What It's Like Inside The U.S. Processing Center Welcoming Thousands Of Afghans Enlarge this image toggle caption Armando Babani/AFP via Getty Images Armando Babani/AFP via Getty Images The Dulles Expo Center outside Washington, D.C., is usually reserved for home and garden or gun shows. Sponsor Message "There are hundreds of State Department, DOD, USAID and TSA in this building at any one time," says Tressa Rae Finerty, deputy executive secretary at the State Department, who runs the massive effort. "We had approximately 29,000 Afghans come through the Dulles space and move on to their forward bases," says Finerty, referring to the eight U.S. military bases where they will go for further processing. That's where the top U.S. officer, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, visited in recent days, stopping in Germany, Italy and Spain and watching as Afghans were screened before heading to the U.S. Enlarge this image toggle caption Armando Babani/AFP via Getty Images Armando Babani/AFP via Getty Images U.S. officials say of the thousands who went through Ramstein Air Base in Germany, only a small number are being detained and sent to a U.S. base in Kosovo because they were flagged as possibly having ties to terrorist groups.