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The 700 refugees that we welcomed so far have come through one specific program, the lautenberg program. you'll hear more from president biden about what we're able to do on the refugee front ourselves. >> and that program is very important. i think the question is as priscilla alvarez has done such good reporting on, it takes a long time and hard to be allowed in through the typical refugee process. i understand the president may give us a number, you can't, but how the u.s. is planning to make it easier for ukrainian refugees to come here, for example, making a priority designation for them,...

Trinks drinks, coffee, tea, and people are holding signs, crossing the continent willing to drive the refugees wherever they need to go and people here comforting children, dressed up as mascots, handing out toys and doing whatever they can to try to make this nightmare for them a little more bearable. neil. >> alex, thank you, very much for that. with us now, the fellow trying to handle this refugee process, and that's the thing when you're talking close to one and a half million people, that's a herculean task. and with an organization, they shepherd this process along. i don't envy the chal...

Refugee process. we've heard the biden administration say, you know, according to their communications with people in ukraine and the surrounding nations that many people don't want to leave that region yet. but they still want to be able to return home to ukraine at some point. so, maybe people are not as willing to come as far over to the u.s. for a long-term refugee resettlement. but i think, you know, we'll see -- we'll see those numbers tick up over the next several months, i would expect. >> final thought. so your reporting at axios and other reporting that i referenced really inspired t...

>> again, we implement, and we have immigration laws across the board, no matter what country you come from. and that has been our case and approach from the beginning. welcoming refugees means applying for the refugee process. and again, as i've said in here, we're looking at a range of options, and including providing broad range of humanitarian assistance to the country, with a vast majority of refugees are going. >> krish, you and i have said here many times and talked about the ways in which the system is broken for refugees, coming from any number of countries. what does this all illustr...

This is like general commitment and that these 100,000 may not be coming as quickly as people think into the u.s. that it could take a lot longer and that it isn't necessarily for this fiscal year. it could stretch out into the next fiscal year. so not all of these are going to be going towards the 125,000 cap, refugee cap. some of these will be coming through other programs. >> i thought it was so interesting, beyond just looking at the numbers here and just how much -- even if it isn't all doled out in this fiscal year, just how much openness the united states is showing through the refugee ...