DONALD Trump could kick out 240,000 Ukrainian refugees from the US as he is reportedly planning to revoke their legal status.
The stunning policy shift was planned before Trump publicly feuded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky inside the Oval Office last week.
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The Trump administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia.
And they could be potentially put on a fast-track to deportation, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden’s administration.
A Trump executive order issued on January 20 called for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “terminate all categorical parole programs”.
Migrants who lose their parole status could face expedited deportation proceedings, according to an internal ICE email.
For those who entered through legal ports of entry without being officially “admitted” to the US – as with those on parole – there is no time limit on their rapid removal.
This differs from immigrants who cross the border illegally, who can only be put into expedited removal for two years after entry.
Officials said that it is part of a broader effort to strip legal status from more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the US under temporary humanitarian parole programs launched by the Biden administration.
The Trump administration last month paused processing immigration-related applications for people who entered the US under certain Biden parole programs.
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