Washington: According to three people with knowledge of the situation and a senior Trump official, the US administration intends to remove the temporary legal status of about 240,000 Ukrainians who escaped the war with Russia, potentially placing them on a fast-track to deportation.
The action would be a startling reversal of the welcome Ukrainians got under President Joe Biden’s administration and is anticipated as early as April.
Trump’s public fight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week was part of a planned removal of protections for Ukrainians.
According to the sources, it is a part of a larger Trump administration initiative to deny legal status to over 1.8 million migrants who were permitted entry into the US through temporary humanitarian parole programs started by the Biden administration.
