Officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have ordered the suspension of a number of programs that allowed refugees to temporarily settle in the United States, including a key initiative that provides an opportunity to enter the country for Ukrainians.
The portal of The New York Times publication reported this with a link to an email from the migration agency.
The directive contained in the email requires an immediate suspension of "final decisions" on applications related to these programs while the administration reviews them and decides whether to terminate their operation.
The publication writes that the scale of the programs mentioned in this pause is enormous, and this decision will block the entry of immigrants fleeing "the most unstable and desperate places in the world" – Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela, among others.
The NYT recalls that administration officials have said that President Trump believes that many of these programs were never legal in the first place.
It is noted that among the programs is Uniting for Ukraine, an initiative of the Biden era, which allowed Ukrainian immigrants to temporarily enter the United States if they had financial sponsors.
According to government data, as of September 2023, more than 150,000 Ukrainians had entered under this program.
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