Read this.
https://justthenews.com/government/s...rt-turned-away
Michael Yon was busy trying, along with many others, to coordinate the rescue of Americans and here are some details. He has texts with an Army Colonel in which they were trying to get American citizens through, who standing at the gates waving passports. He was told the State Department ordered them not to let people through. Yon and other private citizens and vets provided contact info, passport pictures, locations, etc. to the .gov of people who needed evac'd. Many of them made it through checkpoints and to the gate only to be refused entry by the US. Yon says they had 3 privately funded empty planes for these people yet they still weren't let in.