For nearly two years, dozens upon dozens of trained Afghani soldiers have escaped from United States military bases and have lived illegally in our borders — and President Barack Obama’s administration has done nothing about it.

Since January 2015, 44 Afghani security forces have deserted training facilities on U.S. soil, a serious safety concern considering the Afghani military has been frequently infiltrated by Taliban militants.

The frequency of these Afghani desertions is “out of the ordinary,” says Defense Department sources.

That’s according to Reuters, who first broke the story and wrote the escaped Afghani’s are “embarrassing for U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, which has spent billions of dollars training Afghan troops as Washington seeks to extricate itself from the costly, 15-year-old war. The disclosure could fuel criticism by supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has accused the Obama administration of failing to properly vet immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and has pledged a much tougher stance if he wins.”

The Obama administration bills taxpayers billions to bring an estimated 245 Afghani military personnel into the United States annually for extra military training.

Quick math says that approximately 10 percent of every Afghani soldier brought to the U.S. is deserting, roaming untraced through America.

Defense Department officials insist they vet every foreign-born soldier brought to the United States for training. However, this is little comfort to opponents, who note that failures in the vetting system are disturbingly frequent.

The Islamic radical behind the recent bombings in New Jersey and New York, the father of the Orlando night club massacre gunman, and one of the San Bernardino terror attackers had all been vetted by this same system before entering the United States from Afghanistan.

In 2014, an American general was assassinated by a Taliban militant that had infiltrated the Afghani security forces. Following the terror attack, The New York post reported, “US. military intelligence now fear as much as 25 percent of Afghan security forces are Taliban or al Qaeda operatives and sympathizers, which means we may be arming and training an army of some 87,500 enemy infiltrators with easy access to US personnel and intelligence. The massive infiltration puts the entire Afghanistan exit strategy at risk. The compromised Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) takes over the country’s security on Jan. 1, 2015.”

In the two years since, it would be foolish to assume none of them have made it to U.S. soil.

— The Horn editorial team