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Some Ukrainians legally living in the United States in the context of a humanitarian release program of the Biden era received this week a opinion from the Ministry of Internal Security telling them to leave the country – a message that caused panic and revealed itself later.
“It is time for you to leave the United States,” the department wrote to some Ukrainians on Thursday in a “notice of dismissal of parole”, which was obtained by CNN. He added that their parole will expire in seven days and have issued a warning: “Do not try to stay in the United States – the federal government will find you.”
A day later, those who received the email were informed that he had been sent “by mistake”, according to a follow-up communication obtained by CNN. The later opinion has also said that no measure will be taken “as indicated in the previous message, adding:” The terms of your parole as originally published are unchanged at the moment. “”
The confusing messages intervene while the Trump administration has tried to repress immigration, in particular expel hundreds of migrants He claims to be gang members and Hold pro-Palestinian student activists And the criticisms of Israel who are legally in the United States.
DHS confirmed in a statement to CNN that the message sent to certain Ukrainians as part of the parole program was a mistake and that the “parole program was not terminated”. It is also not planned to end the program, said a spokesperson at CNN. DHS took an admissions break as part of the program in January, shortly after Trump took office.
But the back and forth was enough to frighten a number of Ukrainians and the Americans who sponsor them, according to a source familiar with the situation. The letters have aroused a multitude of questions to find out if the Ukrainians who were brought here from 2022 could continue to live in the United States as long as the Russia War with kyiv takes place.
“It shocked everyone who received this,” said Angela Boelens, president and founder of Ia Nice, an organization that helps sponsor Ukrainian families. She then detailed the experience of two women, one of whom is pregnant and the other who has an infant, who received the email and “were immediately terrorized. They were crying, calling their sponsors, saying, “What did I do? »»
Boelens told CNN’s “editorial room” on Saturday that the community had “been able to calm down a bit when we received this email saying that it was actually a mistake”, but the back and forth was traumatic.
“It actually left us more questions than we had before,” she said. “We wonder as sponsors and as a community, you know:” Who wrote this letter? ” Why was it written in such difficult terms? »»
In 2022, President Joe Biden then announced the “Uniter for Ukraine” program For Ukrainians who seek to come to the United States while their country was fighting against the invasion of Russia. The program required that Ukrainians looking for entry be sponsored by an American citizen or an individual, including resettlement and non -profit organizations. Thanks to this process, Ukrainian candidates were authorized to go to the United States and to be Considered for humanitarian conditional release on a case -by -case basis. If they are accepted, individuals were eligible for work authorization.
Since President Donald Trump took office, the DHS critical Humanitarian limitation, claiming that the Biden administration has abused it by extending it to several nationalities. The Trump administration then ended the legal status for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the United States as part of certain Biden era programs, and migrants will be examined “on a case-by-case basis”.
This story has been updated with additional information.