picks up our news coverage now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. i m alecia menendez. the massive high stakes operation to evacuate americans and their families in taliban held afghanistan. there are more than 80,000 afghans already waiting in a live and death situations. waiting to come to the u.s. the process is a refugee program gutted from the previous administration. this final year in office trump had the refugee ceiling at 50,000 down from the 100,000 refugees allowed per year under president obama. that drastic reduction saw the many reis thelement organizations shut down due to lack of work. the trump administration also deliberately obstructed visa processing from allies in afghanistan. according to olivia troy, counter terrorism adviser to mike pence tweeting, quote,
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council, the national security council, the department of justice office of legal counsel, key people at departments and and agencies were realize into the executive chris: you agree it hasn t gone smoothly. well, here s where you re wrong, chris, and i hate to say this, because i think you re fabulous. [laughter] but we issued three executive orders on immigration that have profoundly improved the security posture of this country. on border security, interior security and national security. most of those provisions remain in full, total and complete effect. aspects of the national security order have been wrongly enjoined in an unprecedented step by the ninth circuit and the district judge to extend rights to citizens of other countries who don t live in our country. but even parts of that executive order still remain in full effect, including the process that begins to set in place the new extreme vetting mechanisms, including the lowering of the refugee ceiling and then the othe