Ukrainian immigrants who have left the permanent war with Russia and now live in the United States with temporary legal status, NBC news that they could be terrified that they could soon face deportation in the active war zone. In Ukraine, life while they used to know that it was long bombed.
The President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon make a decision Will the temporary legal status of Ukrainians be revoked Who came to the US during the war. “We certainly don’t ask us to hurt them,” he said. “There were some people who think it was appropriate, and some people don’t and I will make a decision soon.”
Neither before his comments, the feeling of abandonment and fear swallowed through the community given the targeting of legal programs for immigrants, as well as the growing hostility and withdrawal of support in Ukraine, they said.
“It was like a nightmare. We’re afraid of and we feel uncertain in all around us,” said Daria, 41, Ukrainian immigrant and mother of four in Florida started after the war in February 2022. Years.
Earlier thursday, Reuters reported That the Trump administration planned to revoke the temporary legal status of Ukrainians in the United States who came during the war. White Secretary for printing White late pushed back to the report, Calls him “Fake News” And saying that “no decision was made at this time.” The NBC News did not confirm the reporting on Reuters.
More than 280,000 Ukrainian immigrants relocated to the United States From 2022. Year through a biden administrative program called Ukraine, which provided temporary humanitarian suspension, enabling them to work in the country legally and not at risk of deportation.
“We felt very, say goodbye very well,” Daria said, who asked her that her full name was not used for fear of deportation. “Unfortunately, we don’t feel welcome right now.”
Daria said he lived with anxiety for her family to be re-empted and faced with deportation of war earthen countries in which he will be at risk.
“We are not able to go home. Our house was destroyed. It was bombed after we left,” she said.
Maryna, 40, Ukrainian immigrant that has also passed through the program, said the immigrant community “scared because we don’t know when someone could happen out of nowhere.”
“We live day by day, because we don’t know what happens tomorrow,” Maryna said, who also asked her last name to refuse to fear fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear.
Maryna came to the United States with his wife and three children; He now has a two-year-old who was born here. “Everyone is looking for in any way to stay here, because the war is not over,” she said, “Even if the war stopped now that it will still be danger to still not be dangerous.”
Some immigrants – including Daru and Maryna – have temporary protected status (TPS), another form of immigration relief that are assigned to those in the USA that cannot be returned to their countries or political hearing.
TPS for Ukrainians were in April, before the Biden Administration expanded to 2026. October. But Trump was aimed at that program, and Maryna said that immigrants would be unclear that immigrants would be unclear that immigrants would potentially retain them.
Trump issued an executionary order on his first day on his return to Office registration of the Government “Interruption of all categories of conditional processing” This was the opposite of the objectives of the administration. After ordering, the administration announced that it is no longer accepting applications for the unification of Ukraine as reviewed by all conditional processing programs.
The Management Board then moved to revoke TPS hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela and Haiti living in the United States.
Anxiety for Ukrainian immigrants only increased after the Trump’s recent attacks on President Volodyyr Zelensky and the decision on pausing the military assistance of Ukraine.
The change of American politics came as a shock and left the community to feel violated and betrayed, said Ivan Makar, director of confidence on Saturday Saturday. The school is in the heart of New York City’s neighborhood nearby, in which many families loved those who are in the United States through the parole program.
“We’re very upset, we’re in disbelief and horror,” he said.
At least he said that Trump’s decisions left Ukrainian communities throughout the United States, especially those who flee in war and do not know or when they can face deportation.
“If they send them back, where is he going? Back to war? They no longer have houses,” he said. “Their places are demolished. I mean, where are they going?”
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