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People in a timely fashion when th e -- working 24 hours a day to do the vetting necessary and reviews necessary to move people into the united states. now, i would remind you that there are a number of people, tens of thousands of people departing on afghanistan who are going to third countries. they only proceeded through serp steps of the immigrant visa process or the vetting process has not yet been completed. i can give you a bit more detail on the vetting process if that is helpful .

There are also a number of steps that are being taken by usda, hud, the va and hhs, including usda is working with owners of 400,000 rental units to mitigate all evictions. the va will expand rental support to at risk veterans from seven states to all 50 states. this is some of the examples of steps were taking. go ahead. >> afghans with visas are risk death and facing beatings at the

What americans should be assured of is that there is no one coming in through any of these programs who is not gone through a background check process and has opinion vetted. thats our responsibility to the american people. we are grateful to the countries who are providing a place for a number of tens of thousands of people to be for this period of time. we have put a wide range of staff personnel and others on the vetting process from a range of agencies to ensure that we can take steps to exp...

Question? >> any concrete steps that you can give to people worried about whether they will be forgotten, left behind, disappeared once the united states withdraws the military and can no longer protect their safe passage to the airport or other livelihoods? >> the short answer is no. they will not be forgotten. we will use every diplomatic, economic assistance tool at our disposal working hand in hand with the international community first and foremost to ensure that those who want to leave afg...

Fact it takes a year or two for the typical refugee to meet that burden. how can you not have this and where are you going to put these people? >> theres a lot of questions wrapped up in there. let me do the best i can. all good questions. first i would say even prior to the last month or two, we took steps to expedite processing in the siv pipeline. i will remind you for quite some time it was a program that was frozen in march of 2020. hardly anything was done. it wasnt a program they supporte...

To be to all american citizens including elected officials, this is not the time to travel to afghanistan. our focus, our objectives, our resources need to be laser focused on evacuating afghan partners, evacuating american citizens and thats best done in the hands of the department of defense and state department professionals on the ground. >> one more. the third is the deadline of the draw down. when do the gears shift from evacuation initiative to withdrawing troops? >> i noted earlier that ...

Congress need to pass it mandating support and better address this? >> we have made clear that we expect private sector companies to report when they have experienced a cyber breach. theres an impact on the american public in many cases. there is congressional legislation that some are considering and there are a range of options that could be taken by congress and well look at those as they move forward and if they move forward. our view has long been it is combined responsibility of the federa...

Duoot two other items. today we have announced new actions to protect vulnerable tenants and landlords. for months the administration has worked to speed up the delivery of emergency rental assistance as we talked about quite a bit and help keep americans safe and in their homes. no state or locality should delay in distributing resources that have been provided by congress to meet families of critical needs want to continue to take steps to make that easier. they are providing permission for gr...

0 >> 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 ...