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The border. you are allowing afghans to come in as well as mexicans and haitians are not allowed. you can speak to that? the issue of fairness. >> absolutely. i appreciate your question. let me take these different pieces side by side. our immigration policy is not about one country or discriminating against one country over another. we want to put an end to what we saw over the last 4 years. let me start with afghan allies who are arriving in our country in a sanctioned and orderly process with vetting and security screenings with homeland security. it's not one particular country. we outline...

Administration including our own. with regard to the vetting, two things i would point out. we spent a lot of time talking about the special immigrant visa program and our commitment. the commitment of so many members of this committee to the afghans that worked with us and sat side by side with us and the work that we did the first months of the administration. take a program that was in pretty much a dead stall and to put it into -- >> mr. secretary, i don't want to be impolite. quickly say what you did. i know how thorough it was. >> sure. thank you. simply put enwhen it comes to vetting pe...

Implemented? >> i would point you to the department of defense for an operational changes they can speak to and i would predict they won't speak to many in detail. what i will note and refer to something that general mckenzie said that stuck with me. in order to do the security screenings necessary, people have to get quite close. the members of the military have to get close to the individuals that they screen. so images may reflect that. this is something different from that and then point you to the specifics. go ahead. >> on the fake vaccine cards that are making the rounds, the health and...

Area, is that still happening or one change implemented? >> sec. of state psaki: point you to department of defense for any operational changes they can speak to and i predict they will not speak to many in detail. what i will note and refer to something general mckenzie said in terms of illustrating what is happening here. in order to do security screenings necessary, people have to get quite close. members of the military have to get close to individuals they are screening. they have screened tens of thousands of people, some images may reflect that. i would point you to them for specifics t...

>> they have already gone the screening before putting their feet on u.s. soil. when they are through customed, they're paroled into the united states of america. if they have relatives, theoretically they can go with those relatives what we're doing is helping them get through the screening process. we provide all of the governmental organizations to support the medical process, et cetera. so we are not doing security screenings in support of state department. this is nor special immigrant status. i hope that clarifies it. >> tony with bloomberg news. do you have a break down by gender roughl...