MCALEENAN, KEVIN 1(wa) "Metzler, Alan More I lose I RANDOLPH Dli?b?ii??} 0' (WEE) From CC: ?Hamllt?n, I lasso Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Date: 201?}02i?05 115856 Priority: Normal Type: Note Yes; number is 60,000 as State has publicly noted. 42K outside US. 18K here. From: Metzler, Alan Sent: Sunday, February 05, 201? 4:31:38 PM To: ALLES, RANDOLPH Cc: MCALEENAN, KEVIN be<6J Hami ton, Gene Subject: RE: WaPo: Governmen revea more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban -have vou worked with State to get a clearer understanding of the numbers? This could be a data point we would need to provide the Secretary for his hearing. please track and followup with F0 on Monday. Thanks, Alan From: MCALEENAN, KEVIN Sent: Friday, Februarvr 3, 201? 1:55 PM To: Nielsen, [.hristensen, Gillian lease Johnson, Liz [\Aetzler. Alan Howard, Tam La pan, David lElei?J Burke, Jennv rb}ra} Hamilton, Gene Page 1 of tht?J Subject: RE: WEIPO: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban I would defer these questions to State. For awareness, State Department provisionallv revoked affected visas via letter on Fridav night. We believe the number is 60,000 as in our initial reporting. They are now going through and conducting system revocations. Not sure where 100,000 came from. Mv team pulled the data below for 51 this morning: Ofthe approximately 60,000 currently issued visas (immigranb?non-immigrant) to nationals ot?the seven restricted countries, we estimate that approximately 18,000 of those visa holders are currently in the US and 42,000 are outside ofthc US. Over 13,400 of the 18,000 are non-immigrant visa holders (some bigger ones listed below): A-visa 349 CT-visa 348 K-visa 232 F?visa 4153 J-visa 675 B-visa 7412 Immigrant TVisa Holders account for the approximately 4,600 remaining in country immigrantfnon-immigrant visa holders. From: Nielsen, Kirstjen Sent: Friday, February 3, 201? 1:50 PM To: Christensen, Gillian tht6J Johnson, Liz ltht?J Metzler, Alan lore Howard, Tammy Lapan, David tbitm Burke, Jenny Page 2 of lasso lHamilton? KEVIN Moss) ll'v'laher, Joseph Burriesci, Kelli Itht?J I - Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Understood and not surprised. Believe Alan is tasking as appropriate now. Adding Kevin, Joe and Kelli Ann. Please be sure to also connect with State? we need to be lock step in comms Thanks! 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RANDOLPH (we "Metzler, Alan Itbit?i I From: "Owen, Todd To: (bit?i KEVIN I (W35) CC: "Hamilton, Genelfb??} (W5) Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Date: 201?}02f05 17:41:52 Priority: Normal Type: Note Working. Not sure which of you should reach across to State and Justice to resolve the 100k vs 60k disparity on visas "revoked." Need to answer tomorrow. (MICE) please track. [1 A1133, (be) From: Metzler, Alan Sent: Sunday, February 05, 201? 4:31:38 PM To: ALLES, RANDOLPH lave} Cc: MCALEENAN, KEVIN K; kbhs} Hamilton, Gene Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Tex, have you worked with State to get a clearer understanding of the numbers? This could be a data point we would need to provide the Secretarv for his hearing. DHS-01-HQLI-14-000010 Page 1 of please track and followup with F0 on Monday. Thanks, Alan From: MCALEENAN, KEVIN Sent: Friday, February 3, 201? 1:55 PM To: Nielsen, Kirstjerltbit?i Christensen, Gillian Itblt?l Johnson, Liz 103(6) Metzler, Alan Howard, Tammvlib??} I Lapan, David lrbirs) Burke, lHamilton, Gene Itht?J Maher, Joseph hairs} Burriesci, Kelli tbit6i Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban I would defer these questions to State, For awareness, State Department provisionallv revoked affected visas via letter on Fridav night. We believe the number is 60,000 as in our initial reporting. They are now going through and conducting svstem revocations. Not sure where 100,000 came from. Mv team pulled the data below for 51 this morning: Of the approximately 60,000 currently issued visas (immigrantfnon-immigrant) to nationals ofthe seven restricted countries, we estimate that approximately 18,000 of those visa holders are currently in the US and 42,000 are outside of the US. Over 13,400 ofthc 1 8,000 are non-immigrant visa holders (some bigger ones listed below}: A-visa 349 G?visa 348 K-visa 232 F-visa 4153 Page 2 of .l-visa 675 B-visa 7412 Immigrant Visa Iloldors account for the approximately 4,600 remaining in country immigranti?non-immigrant visa holders. From: Nielsen, Kirstjen Sent: Friday, February 3, 201? 1:50 PM Howard, Tammv To: Christensen, Gillianltbitei lohnson, Liz th(6} Metzler, Alan thI26J Itht?J Lapan, David Hamilton, Gene 1thth Burke, Jennv KEVIN 1mm) Maher, Joseph hero Burriesei, Ke i rbvm Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Understood and not surprised. Believe Alan is tasking as appropriate novv. Adding Kevin, Joe and Kelli Ann. Please be sure to also connect with State? we need to be lock step in comms Thanks! From: Christensen, Gillian Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 1:4? PM To: Nielsen, Kirstjen lfbli?l lJohnson, Liz Metzler, Aladth?) (MICE) La pan, Davidw?} Howard, Ta my ltht?J I Burke, Jenny/limos) Gene revs} Hamilton, Subject: RE: WEIPO: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban DHS-01-HQLI-14-000012 Page 3 of So vou are aware: We are starting to get A LOT of media queries on this issue asking for confirmation. From:? Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 1:33 PM To: Johnson, P/Ietzler, Alan 102,105) Howard, Laban, Davidlbei?J I Christensen, Gillian 41(wa lBurke, Jenny {ears} Hamilton, Gene Subject: RE: WaPo: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Alan Per previous emails- vou have this one for the full coordination action Thanks From? Sent: Friday, February 3, 201? 1:31 PM To: Nielsen, KirstjerllibJIC?J lMetzler, Alan iin5J Howard, Lapan, David Wm} lChristensen, Gillian (WE) Burke, I Hamilton, Gene (bJ(6J Subject: Wa Po: Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Government reveals more than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban Emotional protests at Dulles as immigrant families reunite after Trump's executive order By Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal By Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal Page 4 of Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump?s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday. The number came out during a hearing in a lawsuit ?led by attorneys for two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last Saturday. They were coerced into giving up their legal resident visas, they argue, and quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia. ?The number 100,000 sucked the air out of my lungs,? said Simon Sandoval- Moshenberg of the Legal Aid Justice Center, who represents the brothers. The government attorney, Erez Reuveni from the Justice Department?s Of?ce of Immigration Litigation, could not say how many people with visas were sent back to their home countries from Dulles in response to the travel ban. However, he did say that all people with green cards who came through the airport have been let into the United States. For people such as the brothers, Tareq and Ammar Aqel Mohammed Aziz, who tried to enter the country over the weekend with valid visas and were sent back, the government appears to be attempting a case?hv?case reprieve. They and other plaintiffs in lawsuits around the country are being offered new visas and the opportunity to come to the United States in exchange for dropping their suits. Virginia Solicitor General Stuart Raphael said such a piecemeal approach was not suf?cient, since it is not clear how many people were turned away at Dulles or other airports. The state had sought to join the suit, saying it impacted many state residents. ?There?s something very troubling about the way this is playing out,? Raphael said. ?While 1 am pleased that they are willing to whisk people back if they come DHS-01-HQLI-14-000014 Page 5 of to our attention, they won?t come to our attention if we don?t know who they are. He said, for instance, that Virginia of?cials have learned that a George Mason University student from Libya is stuck in Turkey due to the ban. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema allowed Virginia to join the Aziz brothers? suit. Noting that she presided over the case of 9/ 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, Brinkema said she had never before faced such interest in a legal dispute. Other judges dealing with lawsuits against the order around the country, she said, have told her of similar experiences. have never had so much public outpouring as I?ve seen in this case,? she said. ?This order touched something in the United States that I?ve never seen before. It?s amazing.? For the order itself, she had some harsh words, though she said the president has ?almost unfettered? power in the realm of borders and national security. ?It?s quite clear that not all the thought went into it that should have gone into it,? Brinkema said. ?There has been chaos . . . without any kind of actual hard evidence that there is a need? to revoke visas already granted. People had relied on their visas as valid, she said; families had expected to be reunited with loved DUES. Bringing back individuals who have sued after failing to get into the country is a good step, she said, but don?t think it?s far enough.? Outside the courthouse, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said he was ?really pleased the judge recognized real harm is happening in Virginia.? Brinkema declined to hold government of?cials in contempt for the way they handled travelers from the seven banned countries over the weekend, saying she did not know enough Friday to make that determination. Virginia had cited news DHS-01-HQLI-14-000015 Page 6 of reports and af?davits from lawmakers that, contrary to an order Brinkema issued last weekend, Customs and Border Patrol officers denied immigrants access to lawyers. ?There were so many lawyers there willing to help, and not a single one got access,? Raphael said. Reuveni said that security at Dulles bars lawyers from anything but telephone access to people in screening. Brinkema said she would expand the order and extend it another week but has not yet released the details. ALLES, RANDOLPH Dlibii?i lento "Metzler, Alanl CW5) (in?J Sender: "Owen, Todd libli?l (MICE) Recipient: KEVIlilrldiin?} (WW) "Hamilton, Gene Ifblf?l (MICE) Sent Date: 201?}02105 Delivered Date: 2131?}021?5 17:41:52 DHS-01-HQLI-14-000016 Page i' of Meizler, Alar?I (W35) I From I (W 6) I "Nielsen, Kirstjenlib??} I Leta) I "Maher, Josephl I I KEVIN Hibii?i 'Iibili?i I "Hamilton, Genelmrm I lose I "Fulohum, Chidr?bh?o} I (WEE) CC "Homan, Thomas I Subject: RE: Washington v. Trump Injunction of Executive Order Date: 2017f02f03 20:35:45 Priority: Normal Type: Note Got it. From: Nielsen, Kirstjen Sent: Saturday, February 04, 201? 1:33:58 AM To: Maher, Joseph; MCALEENAN, KEVIN Hamilton, Gene; Fulghum, Chip; Metzler, Alan Homan, Thomas Subject: RE: Washington v. Trump Injunction of Executive Order Alan PIS alert OPA, OLA, OPE We need a press statement ready to go. Joe- what is status of appeal etc? From: Nielsen, Kirstjen Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 8:32:50 PM To: Maher, Joseph; MCALEENAN, KEVIN Hamilton, Gene; Fulghum, Chip; Metzler, Alan CcIiin?J I Homan, Thomas Subject: RE: Washington v. Trump Injunction of Executive Order DHS-01-HQLI-14-000017 Page 1 of 5 With .Ioc's and Gene?s concurrence, Kcvin proceed as described. From: Maher, Joseph Sent: Friday, February 03, 201? PM To: MCALEENAN, KEVIN Nielsen, Kirstjen; Hamilton, Gene; Fulghum, Chip; Metzler, Alan Cc: tht6} Subject: RE: Washington v. i rump Injunction of Executive Order Homan, Thomas concur with Kevin's instruction. I believe Julie has a minor edit that she?ll send directly to Kevin. [t?anyone like to discuss line. I?ll be on it in just one mi 1 know we?re in different locations nulc. (bro) From: MCALEENAN, KEVIN Sent: Friday, Februarv 3, 201? 7:53 PM To: Nielsen, Kirstjenlibli?l (MICE) lMetzler, IMaher, Joseph we can use this conference lHamilton, Genelthi?J fulghum, Chip Subject: RE: Washington v. Trump Injunction of Executive Order lam clearing the message below with counsellai?lijl love) Lool