call, i think that could represent a real watershed. the atlantic s tim alberta, thank you very much for your analysis this morning. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up live coverage right now. 7:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart. we begin with the ongoing repercussions from the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago club, one week ago today. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the fbi and the homeland security department are warning of a spike in threats against federal law enforcement officers and their families in the wake of that search. the fbi responded to the threats by putting ground control barriers and crowd control barriers in front of its washington headquarters. it s also bolstering security at offices across the country. this comes days after a federal judge unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the search of trump s florida residence. they show the items federal agents seized include
processing that the government has done in the last year, at the current rate of issuing visas, it s going to take 18 years to get through the backlog. these people don t have that time. so one of the things that i would like to really highlight is, we re calling out in our report, probably the most important recommendation anyone is going to give at this moment. simply put, the biden administration has to create a united for afghanistan program that is modeled after the uniting for ukraine program. we have helped over 100,000 ukrainians via humanitarian patrol into the united states since april of this year. in the last year alone, we have only welcomed 795 siv applicants. we have to do better, and we can. there s a model for it. we should be adopting it today. it doesn t require any congressional action. the president could order it right now. there needs to be some way that the afghan people can once again have hope. matt zeller and attiah abawi, i thank you so much for being with
the remain in mexico policy, i m glad the biden administration has now decided they re moving forward. everything in my mind is moving too slowly, even from the biden administration. i just have to say that, because i think that trump did a massive disaster on all of our agencies. he cut all of the staff of agencies that are doing good processing, you know, he really eviscerated all of our systems for processing people. we re trying to rebuild them, but it is slow work and republicans have continued to use this as a political football, which prevents us from even being able to do some of the things that i think we should be doing in terms of staffing, quicker ways to process people, making sure that we re providing humanitarian relief, tps where we can do it. i think there are so many places where the administration could be moving forward, but because so much of this is being used as
afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,015,000. what happened to these other americans. the situation with the special immigrant visa is even more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabul s fall, you evacuated 705 of roughly 20,000 principle siv applicants. what happened to these people? this committee reached out to the department in april, may and june to help expedite siv processing. we asked that additional what additional authorities or resources you needed for months we received contradictory responses or no response at all. i ll take a minute to defend the state department. one of the problem was providing the records needed to validate the afghans who bravely helped our forces. the fact that d.o.d. didn t keep accurate records is irresponsible and a slap in the face to those who fought
detailed the numbers, but as we have said, including in the context of the siv processing we determined that there were people based at the embassy who could have been based back here in the washington, d.c. area who could help to adjudicate the chief emission level processing for siv applicants. now, what is true is that we are going down to a smaller diplomatic presence given the security situation, but as you said, our overall status has not change. we have been on order departure since april 27th, and we have taken prudent measures since then to reduce the size of our footprint in afghanistan with the eye towards security environment, and that what we are doing here. yes? so you said that today is a continuation of what has been happening. but it appears very clearly to be a preparation for a full