President Donald Trump’s administration is moving swiftly to revoke temporary legal status for upwards of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. after the war with Russia began, sources alleged Thursday.
Reuters reports a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter confirmed the move to the outlet, potentially putting the Ukrainians on a fast-track to deportation back to their homeland.
The move, expected as soon as April, would sweep up the unreserved welcome mat laid out under President Joe Biden’s administration.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials have not confirmed the claims.
The mass migration lobby, with financial ties to billionaire George Soros, is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand the United States open its borders to refugees from across Eastern Europe. https://t.co/RJXyJkrnwo
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 25, 2022
Around 5.2 million Ukrainian refugees remain abroad with the vast majority of them receiving protection in E.U. countries.
The deportations would complement a larger effort by the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the U.S. under previous humanitarian parole programs, the sources said.
Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 requesting the Department of Homeland Security to “terminate all categorical parole programs.”
Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are being allowed to seek asylum in the U.S. but Russians are being rejected. https://t.co/NBpbOSkpUS
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 20, 2022
The Trump administration is expected to revoke temporary legal status for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who flew to the U.S. with American sponsors, CBS News reported, citing internal government documents.
The move would affect over 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Some 77,000 Afghans who escaped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are also covered under the parole programs.
