You ask to give your opinion about it. you have to remember, the vast majority of people lives in places where immigrants do not flow to, particularly immigrants from those particular kinds of countries. those people generally come to the coast and the border states and a lot of places in the middle have no contact, so they don t see the benefit of it and they don t have neighbors and coworkers part of that immigrant group. they don t it s a lot harder to empathize with those people if you have no kind of contact with them. so when i was questions like that, i want to ask, what do you know about the issue? do you live or work around immigrants? is this affecting anybody that you know? i got to leave it there. thank you. millions affected by the president s travel ban order but coming up, you ll meet a young iraqi boy separated from his parents and his life hangs in the balance.
What s surprising to me is that white house came at opposition last night but haven t done anything legally about it. do you get the sense they did not have a motion for an emergency appeal ready? we saw two blunders which is sprie surprising with a high profile controversy. i would have had a emergency appeal ready to go. they clearly didn t and undermines their case with courts if they re saying that this is an imminent national security matter, it s odd if they wait a few days or over 24 hours to file an emergency motion. it should have been ready to go within minutes of that order coming down. the second mistake is they overestimated the number of visas that had been court ordered by a little over 40%. those are the types of mistakes you don t often see in high
come on up. probably best to be in front of the microphone. who is first? thanks. two quick questions. first to the acting ice director. is ice planning on growing detention states for people and extending the time in which they are held? then, also, on cvp, you mentioned you spoke to people about the order within 72 hours. would it have been easier if you had any guidance before this order came out? could confusion have been avoided? on the first question, yes. we got to secure our borders. those of us entering the united states, we need to detain those people. we re in the process of identifying detention capacity. increasing the length of stay, we look to do just the opposite. we like to keep them in custody as little as possible and make sure they get their due process. once they get that order from the judge, execute that order.
We issued written guidance. we had called stake holders. these are air carriers and airports starting just a few hours after receiving the order so that they would understand how to operate. we also overnight on friday and saturday worked through the process to be able to waive travellers that were in transit or had sensitive cases that should be considered for a waiver in the national interest as executive order calls for. to put this in context, in the first 72 hours of the order one million travellers came through our borders via air. out of those travellers 500,000 of them were foreign nationals. the people affected by this order we denied boarding to 721 travellers that had visas from the affected countries, but we actually processed for waivers
To the field and were able to clarify with the carriers that these folks were allowed to board. that didn t happen immediately, right? by sunday? it unfoallded over a matter hours friday into saturday afternoon. that s correct. i guess, kevin, i m a little bit confused, and i don t want to boat a dead horse, but you talked about a year and a half, two years ago you we published, the a.p. published it. several days in advance. details of the draft. that doesn t proclued you not knowing did you know the detail of what was in the order outside of sort of open source media, who exactly in the department of homeland security was involved, you can t provide names. is that the landing team from the transition, from the trump administration prior to its arrival or was it career staff involved from the department of homeland security prior to this announcement? i did know it was under development.
Presumably placing a more liberal justice, but will their base let them take that more moderate tack. it s unclear. some liberals want to take a tough line, and are you seeing that happen in some cabinet nominees as well, john. manu, busy day on capitol hill. we ll check back in if anything else happens. where he had the president s supreme court pick tonight. democratic boycott tactic here. the vote on senator sessions is about to happen. betsy devoss, the education secretary, put out a committee on a party line vote. no democrats voting for her. welcome today 12 of the trump administration. there s more to talk about as well. to this climate, we knew the democrats don t like this president. they don t support this president. they were going to oppose much of this president, but am i wrong since the weekend actually since the march the woman s march here and following through the president s travel ban order, you see the progressive organizations getting fired up, and essentially te
Kevin, if you have anything else. to follow-up, though, can you explain why the white house didn t have a current number? they were saying 109 yesterday. as kevin will probably outline to you, the records keeping we do is always is not always it s based on yesterday, so kevin, acting commissioner, can give you some very good numbers yesterday, but in order to get the numbers today, we have to wait until tomorrow. it s just the way they collect the information. actually, you know, obviously it s an ongoing period, though, of comings and goings. that s why they do it that way. i don t know if you have the secretary is absolutely correct. i understand the white house was referring to the initial hours and the folks that were in transit to the u.s. when the executive order came about. that was a much smaller number that were affected who had landed in the u.s. and were being addressed and some of them were subject to that court order. i think that s the difference in the number
Number from roughly about 20 hours before. every time we post. pierre thomas, abc news. did homeland security acknowledge specific operational plan in place prior to the executive order being signed? secondarily, says when did you learn specifically that president trump was signing the order? well, i guess i go back to i knew he was going to sign an order about a year and a half or two years before he became the president-elect. from day one in temz rms of inauguration, finishing touches were being put on the executive order. high level executives and attorneys were part of that. people on my staff were generally involved. i guess probably tuesday, wednesday we learned that it would probably be during the week, that it would be signed
I also want to talk a little bit about refugees. the executive order calls for refugees that were ready to travel where it would cause undue hardship, that they should be considered for waivers. we ve done that in concert with our department of state colleagues. 872 refugees will be arriving this week and we ll be processing them for waivers through the end of the week, and that s fully coordinated. as secretary kelly noted, we are responding immediately to any court orders. we did so quickly on friday night with the eastern district of new york order, and those parties that were affected by that order were processed for a waiver and admitted into the united states. lastly, i just want to tell you that to increase communications and provide additional information to travellers, we are updating on our website. it will be there as you log in at cvp.gov, a statement about the implementation, faq s, getting information to travellers, the public, and other stake holders as well as a link fo
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