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Women to qualify for visas and then they're calling on homeland security to increase processing capability at the u.s. customs service for handling those visas. right now it's hard enough for the group of mostly male afghans who worked with the u.s. military as translators and other support roles, it's hard enough for those mostly male afghans to get out under this visa program that they're trying to rapidly expand and expedite. that visa program for afghans who worked directly with u.s. forces that, lets them apply to leave directly from afghanistan and to get out if they can. it is hard enou...

Need -- >> bill: could be -- with every variation of the virus it could become more transmissible. >> dana: that's how -- viruses are smarter than we are. >> bill: can a mask protect you or can the virus, depending on the variant of the virus can it pass through the mask? questions for doctors that are smarter than we are. >> dana: the white house says it has taken steps to alleviate the crisis at the southern border including moving migrants from one part of the border to another with increased processing capability. it comes amid an influx of border patrol activity ahead of mayorkas' visit h...

Up, processed and hope for a silo. >> it's a constant flow and the white house being pushed by mexico to remove all pandemic related travel restrictions and open regular border crossings. >> that could potentially attract more migrants to those facilities just as the biden administration says it's adopting new measures to try to ameliorate the crisis, such as expulsion flights deeper into the mexican interior and renewed attempts to avoid overcrowding at holding facilities. >> steps we've started to take, moving migrants from one part of the border to another where there might be more processi...

>> newer steps that we have started to take which is moving migrants from one part of the border to another where there might be more processing capability or facility capacity to expel migrants. >> so far whatever the administration has tried has not worked. the number of migrant apprehensions has shot up rather than headed down. so much so that the 210,000 apprehensions in july represent a five fold increase over the same month in 2020. it is against that back drop that homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas will travel to south texas on thursday and the dhs meets with those working ...

Turning those buses around? >> well, it's important to understand that because of the recent influx of kids and families crossing the border in the rio grande valley sector, our processing capability in that immediate area is full and we've had to go to other places across the southwest simply to process these people. and so when someone interrupts the ability of the border patrol to process a migrant, you're preventing us from conducting basic health screening and basic background checks on who these people are. it's a very basic border patrol function that we need to perform for law enforcem...