Afghan nationals who risked their lives to work with the U.S. government over the 20-year war are pleading with the Biden administration to get them and their families out of their country before its too late.

A month after President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of this year, the nation is facing an uptick in violence by the Taliban against both Afghan security forces and civilians.

While the Pentagon announced last week that it was considering planning for the evacuation of Afghans who had worked with the U.S. government, a formal plan has not been put in place. That leaves thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. terrified theyll face retaliatory attacks from the Taliban and that the U.S. wont help them.

On Friday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Biden to immediately evacuate the thousands of Afghans who worked closely with U.S. forces and criticized the State Department for not moving fast enough to evacuate those in immediate danger.

In the past month, we have been closely following your developing withdrawal plans. We appreciate the complexity of ending the War in Afghanistan, but we are increasingly concerned that you have not yet directed the Department of Defense be mobilized as part of a concrete and workable whole of government plan to protect our Afghan partners, the lawmakers wrote.