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Joining me is former u.n. ambassador to mexico serving under president george w. bush. mr. ambassador, nice to see you. how are you doing? i m doing well. thank you. part of today s executive order calls for increased security sector assistance to foreign partners. i m assuming that will include mexico. in an exclusive interview that we just are getting in, it will air tonight at 5:00 on mtp daily, this is what mexico s foreign minister had to say. take a listen. what do you believe is the best practice? i tell you this is very important. we need to stop illegal weapons flowing from the u.s. into mexico. we always think about illegal stuff moving to the border south to north. but people forget that most guns and we re not talking small guns, we re talk heavy weapons that get to cartels and create a ....
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 ....
Consultation of any meaningful sort. pete williams you cover homeland and justice and it s been pretty tumultuous. he is clearly falling on the line let s listen in as the head of i.c.e. is speaking. we had calls with stakeholders, air carriers and airports starting a few hours after receiving the order so they would understand how to operate. we also overnight on friday and saturday worked through a process to be able to wave travelers that were in transit, or had sensitive cases that should be considered for a waiver in the national interest as the executive order calls for. to put this in context in the first 72 hours of the order, 1 million travelers came through our borders via air. out of those travelers, 500,000 of them were foreign nationals. the people affected by this order we denied boarding to 721 travelers that had visas from the affected countries, but we actually processed for waivers ....
First, we made changes in our system to identify those passport holders and visa holders from the affected countries. we had a call with our field leadership, our director of field operations, to inform them of the executive order and the actions they needed to take. we issued written guidance to our field. we had calls with stakeholders, 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 a process to be able to waive travelers that were in transit or had sensitive cases that should be considered for a waiver or in national interest as the executive order calls for periods to put this in context, in the first 72 hours of the order, 1 million travelers came through our borders by air. out of those travelers, 500,000 of them were foreign nationals. the people affected by this order, we denied boarding to 721 travelers that had visas from the affected ....
To you upon arrival. 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 have done that in concert with our department of state colleagues, 872 refugees will be arriving this week. and will be processing them for ravers through the end of the week, and that is fully coordinated. as second 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 the increased communication and provided additional information to travelers, we are updating on our web site and it will be there as you login. a statement about the ample mentation, frequently asked questions giving information to travels, the public, and other stak ....