Salon reports
President Donald Trump is planning to revoke temporary legal status for more than 240,000 Ukrainian civilians who fled their war-torn country and were allowed into the United States under temporary humanitarian parole programs, a senior Trump official and three other sources told Reuters.
After the news broke, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, while insisting the report was “fake news,” confirmed that revoking Ukrainians’ legal status is under consideration, saying only that “no decision has been made at this time.”
The move would be a first step in a process that could subject immigrants to fast-track deportation proceedings, according to an internal ICE email obtained by Reuters. It’s part of a broader effort by the Department of Homeland Security to “terminate all categorical parole programs” per an executive order, under which 1.8 million refugees were able to find relatively safe haven in the U,S. In addition to the Ukrainians, 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans also in line to have their status revoked this month.
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