President Donald Trump told a German reporter on Tuesday that Ukrainian refugees who came to America to escape the war with Russia would “likely” be allowed to stay here until that conflict ends.
“I think we will, yeah, I do. I think we will,” Trump said soon after he returned to Washington from Scotland. “We have a lot of people that came in from Ukraine, and we’re working with them.”
German media outlet DW’s Misha Komadovsky asked the question of Trump during an audience with a small group of reporters at the White House.
Under former President Joe Biden, refugees and immediate family members could come into the U.S. with a sponsor for a period of two years.
Will they be deported?
This initiative began in 2022, so some of the 240,000 refugees who took advantage of the program have faced a return to their war-torn homeland.
A Trump executive order instructed the Department of Homeland Security to “terminate all categorical parole programs,” which would include the Biden initiative.
As of March when reports that Trump would revoke these refugees’ temporary status began to circulate, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “fake news.”
“The truth: no decision has been made at this time,” she said.
Getting the fighting to stop
Trump is attempting to get the war to stop, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that he now only has 10-12 days to stop prolonging the fighting with Ukraine, shortened from the 50 days he had said earlier.
If Trump can get the fighting to stop, he will be able to move forward with his repatriation plans at will.
In May, the Washington Post reported that the administration planned to use $250,000 earmarked for foreign assistance to repatriate 200,000 Ukrainians.
Still, the Ukrainian refugees represent only a small drop in a migrant bucket that was full and spilling over under Biden.
Trump has bigger fish to fry in sending millions back over the southern border to Mexico and Latin America.
And these migrants illegally crossed the border rather than fleeing a war-torn country, although some would argue that conditions were similarly war-like in many places south of the border.
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