Biden Welcomes 10K Ukrainians at Border with Plans to Lure More to U.S.

Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ CWO4 Terrence Clark for posting the perspective from breitbart.com author John Binder

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1. Refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine await processing of their applications along the border with the U.S. in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 9, 2022.
2. Natalia Kozlov, Mihail Kozlov and their 7-month-old baby waiting to be processed along the U.S.-Mexico border.

TIJUANA. Mexico — The list of Ukrainian refugees waiting to enter the United States is kept on a yellow legal pad on a folding table inside a blue camping tent. a few feet away from the multilane highway that connects Mexico to the United States. It is written in English and Cyrillic by volunteers. many refugees themselves. waiting for their own numbers to be called. “They said it could be two or three days.” said Valentina Shymanservska. No. 884. a sunflower farmer from outside Kharkiv. By Saturday morning. the list had more than 1.200 names on it. Dozens more Ukrainians were arriving every hour. A van was shuttling them between the Tijuana airport and the tent where the yellow legal pad was kept. The United States last month committed to accepting as many as 100.000 Ukrainian refugees. but it has yet to establish a way for them to arrive directly. There are no resettlement programs or visa pipelines. That has left Ukrainians in growing numbers to book flights to Mexico. They arrive at the U.S. border on foot. many pushing kids in strollers and dragging suitcases behind them. On social media platforms and messaging apps. groups with thousands of members now explain the process in the Ukrainian language: From major European cities. fly to either Cancún or Mexico City. Ukrainians don’t need visas to enter the country. From there. take another flight to Tijuana. A small encampment has sprouted about 1.000 feet from the U.S. border. where families are sleeping in tents and under tarps. It is the same tiny patch that has hosted refugees from around the world in recent years: Central Americans who were part of the caravans in 2018; Haitians and Cubans who arrived during the pandemic; Mexicans who fled a surge in violence this year. But few refugees have arrived in Tijuana after such a circuitous trajectory of trains. buses and flights. And few are processed as quickly by U.S. authorities
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Background from breitbart.com and CBS news
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President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has welcomed nearly 10,000 Ukrainians at the United States-Mexico border since the beginning of February with plans to lure even more to the U.S.
From February 1 to April 6, internal DHS data published by CBS News reveals that the Biden administration is increasing its so-called “processing” of Ukrainians at the border.
Effectively, Ukrainians with no ties to the U.S. or immigration documents are set for release into the U.S. interior while awaiting asylum hearings. In addition, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have arrived on visas from February 1 to April 6.

CBS News {[archive.ph/X6AuZ]} by Camilo Montoya-Galvez
U.S. officials processed 9,926 undocumented Ukrainians in last 2 months, data show
Nearly 10,000 undocumented Ukrainians have been processed by U.S. border officials in the past two months as thousands of refugees displaced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have traveled to Mexico hoping to request refuge in the U.S., according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data obtained by CBS News.
Nearly 10,000 undocumented Ukrainians have been processed by U.S. border officials in the past two months as thousands of refugees displaced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have traveled to Mexico hoping to request refuge in the U.S., according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data obtained by CBS News.
On March 24, President Biden vowed to receive up to 100,000 Ukrainians displaced by the war over an undefined time period. But the administration has yet to announce any concrete steps to achieve the ambitious plan and expedite a visa and refugee process that typically takes months and years to complete.
Faced with limited direct pathways to reach the U.S., thousands of Ukrainians have embarked on a days-long trek to Mexico that typically involves several flights to reach the U.S. southern border, where officials have been directed to consider admitting Ukrainians, despite pandemic-era entry restrictions for other migrants.
It's unclear how many of the 9,926 Ukrainians processed by U.S. border officials were allowed into the country. CBP did not respond to requests to comment on the data and provide additional statistics.
The unprecedented wave of Ukrainians traveling to Mexico in hopes of entering the U.S. is a symptom of a dysfunctional and backlogged immigration system that is not designed to respond to burgeoning refugee crises, especially after numerous Trump-era restrictions and the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.
"The fact that Ukrainians are traveling to Mexico and trying their luck at the U.S.-Mexico border as the fastest option just shows how slow and clogged up our immigration system is," said Julia Gelatt, an analyst for the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute. "We don't really have a rapid response part of our immigration system that can create pathways for people in an emergency situation."
That broken immigration system is on full display in Tijuana, Mexico, where a group of volunteers from Slavic churches in the U.S. has created an ad hoc process to enroll Ukrainians on a list so they can wait their turn to present themselves to U.S. officials at the San Ysidro border crossing in Southern California.
Once their numbers come up, families and adults from Ukraine are generally allowed to enter the U.S. after some processing and granted one year of humanitarian parole, which allows them to work and live in the U.S. legally. On March 11, U.S. border officials were directed to consider exempting Ukrainians from Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that has blocked many Latin American migrants from seeking asylum.
A smaller number of unaccompanied Ukrainian children are also seeking entry at the San Ysidro crossing, according to a U.S. official and lawyers in Tijuana, but they are being transferred to government shelters that typically house Central American migrant children, as required by a 2008 anti-trafficking law.
Olya Krasnykh, one of the U.S. volunteers helping Ukrainians arriving in Tijuana, said the waiting list is designed to ensure the processing of Ukrainians is somewhat orderly, since U.S. border authorities limit the number of individuals who can be admitted to a few hundred per day.
But Krasnykh said the bulk of this work should be done by governments — not a loose team of volunteers. Mexican officials in Tijuana have agreed to provide temporary housing to Ukrainians, but Krasnykh said the makeshift shelters, including a recreation center's gym, are quickly running out of space.
"The situation really needs to change because the numbers are staggering, and we're at capacity," Krasnykh, a California resident, told CBS News. "Many of us haven't been sleeping at all. It's just not sustainable."
The internal CBP statistics also show an increase in Russians entering U.S. border custody, with the agency reporting processing 5,207 migrants from Russia since February 1. Just over 2,000 Russians entered CBP custody in February, including 769 migrants along the Mexican border, according to agency figures.
Unlike the U.S., Mexico does not have visa requirements for Ukrainian travelers. According to Ukrainian families and volunteers, most Ukrainians are flying into Cancún or Mexico City from Europe and then boarding a second flight to Tijuana.
Natalia Kozlov, 24, said she arrived in Tijuana on the night of April 6 alongside her husband Mihail, 23, and their 7-month-old baby after a two-day journey from Warsaw that included stops in Paris and Cancun.
The young couple said they had been living in Poland since last fall, when they fled the conflict between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government in the eastern region of Donetsk. But the couple said they had no family members in Poland, and that returning to Ukraine after the war broke out was not an option.'
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