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Oregon legislature approves $18 million in funding for Afghan refugee resettlement during December special session.

The Biden administration has—in its first year—rolled back many of Trump's immigration policies. But much work remains to be done for true reform.

A Pima Community College program will help refugees from Afghanistan, and other countries learn to speak English

The root causes to address the reason why people leave their homes in which they live and take a perilous journey that they should not take, second, the building of safe orderly and humane pathways and third, rebuilding an asylum system and a refugee program that would dismantle in the prior administration. this takes time, and we are executing our plans. >> thank you, mr. secretary, thank you for being here. i know that we suggested it was a great grievance, so its good to see you. starting wit...

Reason why people leave the homes in which they live and take a perilous journey that they should not take. second, the building of safe, orderly and humane pathways, and third, rebuilding an asylum system and a refugee program that were dismantled in the prior administration. this takes time, and we are executing our plans. >> thank you, mr. secretary. thank you for being here. suggested we would be great to have you, so good to see you in the week we made the request. are you considering elimi...

Address the need, address the reason why people leave the homes in which they live and take a perilous journey that they should not take. second, the building of safe, orderly and humane pathways, and, third, rebuilding an asylum system and a refugee program that was dismantled in the prior administration. this takes time and we are executing our plans. >> thank you, mr. secretary and great you have and good to see you in the same way we made that request. starting with the situation in del rio....

Make an impact. >> we have to recognize that we have a big moral debt to much larger number of afghans and we should at least have a much larger refugee program. speak of the willingness to accept more because we have to do more. >> laura: what? have you ever seen any of them as insistent about how we have to do more about helping our homeless vets. there are about 60,000 of them living on the street every night in the united states. not for one millisecond do they ever consider the burden that ...

We will help you find a way. >> we have to recognize we have a big moral debt to a larger number of afghans, we should have a much larger refugee program. >> willingness to accept more because we have to. >> have you ever seen any of them as insistent about how we have to do more about helping our homeless vets, there are 60,000 of them living on the street every night in the united states. not for one millisecond do they ever consider the burden they are putting on hard-working americans nor do...

These are known passport holders. >> okay. but have -- have lprs also been contacted? >> yes. >> and what about siv applicants, people who are -- were in contact -- >> will we get -- >> im sorry. >> i dont expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began theres been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and theres been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you we...

>> it does not. >> lprs also been qucontacted? >> yep. >> what about siv applicants? can we get numbers? >> its okay. >> since this whole thing began theres been a lot of criticism of the administration over how its handled. theres been a lot of push back about the hand that you were dealt by the previous administration in terms of the deal with the taliban and terms of the siv program and the broader refugee program. you have been in office for almost eight months. its been five months since th...