immigration visa program. the siv program, right? which which brings to america those afghans who worked closely with us and might be vulnerable if the if the taliban rose to power. so so at a minimum, we spent those 14 months or or or more um sort of sitting on our hands. when we could ve been making progress against the numbers that need to be evacuated today. that s right. so we lost a lot of time. that we had an anti-muslim and anti-non-white immigrant administration that freed 5,000 taliban prisoners but refused to shorten the process to bring any afghan interpreters here. so they were more interested in letting taliban people out of prison than they were in getting afghan interpreters here. they didn t let them in. and so, they literally had no plan to let them in because they didn t want them here. let s just be real about where the fault lies, everybody. you can be mad at biden if you want but there is no way to get around that. i m sorry, we re out of tim
0 parts. bahrain, denmark, germany, italy, kazakhstan, kuwait, qatar, uzbekistan. many will be transporting people through their territories to safety. albania, kosovo, macedonia, mexico, poland, qatar, ukraine and uganda have made generous offers regarding the relocation efforts for at-risk afghans. we appreciate the support. we re very encouraged other countries are also considering providing additional support, this is something that we will continue to be focused. finally this morning, secretary blinken participated in a virtual meeting to discuss the on going security situation in afghanistan and others to safely evacuate our it is ens and afghan allies that may be at risk. the allies agreed that any future government must adhere to afghanistan s international obligations, safeguard the human rights of afghans, women, children and minority, uphold the rule of law and allow unhindered access and ensure that afghanistan never serves as a safe haven for terrorism. secretary blinken a
they have part of the siv program to get into the united states or whether they be europeans trying to get on as well. they flood, they crush. i was caught in the crush myself trying to get on. it is incredibly difficult for the marines to respond in any other way other than shutting down. you let one person over and everybody tries to climb over simultaneously today. we have seen video suggesting the crush today is worse. if someone is successful getting on through a hole or gate that is loosely attended for a while people rush there. it is quite startling the crush outside, and how little about it is known inside the airport for planning. nick paton walsh, that is so helpful to understand how complicated and challenging it is there. thank you very much for your reporting. so the pentagon says there are 5,200 u.s. troops now in afghanistan. they say that 7,000 people have already been evacuated from kabul, but that s over the past five days and that is a fraction of the number wai
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jane, walk us through the special immigrant visa program. how exactly does it work for the people who are trying to leave afghanistan? yeah. the special immigrant visa program is commonly referred to as the siv program. that program has been around for decades. the applications for the siv program originate in the country of origin. so in this case afghan citizens who are living in afghanistan, many of them in kabul, are applying in the u.s. embassy to relocate and qualify for the siv program. one challenge with that program, unfortunately, is that there are many security checks, health checks that people have to clear before they get siv status. that has been taking up to four years. so there has been 1,100 people that have arrived through that