should do something. there s no doubt that many of the border patrol agents will want to give the president an earful about what has been going on down there. jacqui heinrich joins us now reporting live from the north lawn. hi, jacqui. yeah, the president announced really the first news on what his plan is to manage this surge just on the other side of the border that we ve been seeing for months now under his administration. he s expanding a program that the white house tested out with migrants from venezuela to now apply to migrants from cuba, nicaragua and haiti. dhs announcing they ll take 30,000 migrants per month from those four countries while also expelling 30,000 that do not meet the requirements for this new parole program back in to mexico. they re telling people that they can apply remotely for this asylum. to be eligible, you have to be sponsored by a person in the u.s. and pass a security
that would provide a pathway to permanent residency for tens of thousands of afghan evacuees. refugees and advocates can called the move a betrayal, specifically taking aim at republican senator chuck grassley who opposed the measure because he said it failed to address concerns about security vetting of the refugees. meanwhile in afghanistan, taliban leaders announced they are banning women from attending universities. this is the latest in a series of moves to restrict women s rights, despite the group initially promising to govern moderately. the taliban previously banned young girls from attending middle and high school. and last month, women were barred from using gyms or visiting parks. they ve also been restricted from most employment and are required to wear head to toe covering in public. the same day it banned women from attending universities, the
if they were not having to do this. it would cost them less money and mean people have more time. the challenge is knowing whether or not they are going to be able to recruit or get people through the security vetting process in time for the summer period. there is a lot of frustration that it is taking so long to get people security vetted. and what is your sense of that? any sign of these problems being fixed? definitely, surely by now and we were hearing at the select committee hearing yesterday, there is been a huge recruitment drive and it is taking up to 90 days to get the security vetting done. for a lot of these people they have to have five years of references from previous employment. for people who perhaps have been working over the covid pandemic period in a variety ofjobs it is a real challenge to get people to provide all those references and thatis to provide all those references and that is what is slowing the situation down. the other fact is uk airlines must operate 7
and wizz air flights and some other uk airports have also seen disruption. bad weather and air traffic control problems have contributed, but easyjet blames a challenging operating environment. too many flights and not enough staff to actually get those fights off the ground, and this is going to be something we see perhaps continuing into the summer, unless we can get real recruitment issues resolved and people allowed to actually get on board with these airlines. the security vetting seems to be the big thing that s stopping airlines getting people up into the air at the moment. the transport secretary said this morning he would do absolutely everything possible to prevent problems this summer, but that hiring workers from abroad wasn t the answer. let s have lots of different measures to help alleviate the situation, with the industry, working closely with the industry, to do that as well. the answer can t always be to reach for the lever marked more immigration . in fact, as i sai
cancellations coming at the last minute. :, :, cancellations coming at the last minute. :, ., :, , , minute. yeah, and obviously, we need to make sure minute. yeah, and obviously, we need to make sure there minute. yeah, and obviously, we need to make sure there is minute. yeah, and obviously, we need to make sure there is much minute. yeah, and obviously, we need to make sure there is much better- to make sure there is much better organisation and the real challenge here is a lack of staffing. so it can take three months to that are on the ground in the security area up to better training and also security vetting. they have really high levels of security vetting by our government agencies. i would like to see much more of a sort of parallel processor that you can start the sort of classroom exercise whilst you re finishing the last half of that in valour than wait till it has all gone through. i also think it will be more flexible in terms of the numbers of people that are al