With more than 4.9 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country, the Biden administration announced in late March it will accept 100,000 people who are escaping that conflict into the U.S.
With more than 4.9 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country, the Biden administration announced in late March it will acceptWhile pro-immigration activists usually welcome such an announcement, some are criticizing what they see as a double standard being applied at the southern border that favors Ukrainian refugees over Black and brown migrants who have already been waiting. In March, overwere processed at the U.S.
Immigrant families from Haiti and Brazil are taken into custody by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Yuma, Ariz. Ramos said the thousands of migrants fleeing Central America, Mexico, Africa and Haiti are also escaping drug wars, prosecution and corruption. “There are many types of war that other refugees are fleeing. But those wars are not deemed worthy of being responded to. We have thousands of families that are fleeing the southern state of Michoacán in Mexico, where the government is literally at war with the drug cartels,” said Ramos.
waiting to seek asylum in the United States. Thousands of migrants have had to wait over two years in poor conditions in border towns across the southern border because of Title 42.
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