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, or offering humanitarian parole to ukrainians so they wouldn t count even toward the refugee cap. are those on the table? all of those options are on the table. we re going to explore all options and speak to those options. that would make the most sense. but one other point, ukrainians are being forced to flee their country by the millions. the fact is, however, that many ukrainians have family
The president said the U.S. will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians displaced by the war, but the State Department has not yet figured out how that will work.