Ukrainians with Austin family defy death to get here.
Chris Bardash, whose mother-in-law is in a bomb shelter in Ukraine, holds a sign at the Texas State Capitol on March 5
As Austin immigration attorney Julie Sparks explained, the common understanding of what it means to be a refugee has little bearing on the legal definition. Many of the more than 2 million Ukrainians who have fled the country since war broke out would not qualify for asylum in the U.S. without changes to law, Sparks said."The wheels of justice move slowly. Sometimes it moves so slowly that people die.
"I feel like I'm going absolutely out of my mind," Natasha said."I'm able to switch on and off and for a couple hours, be normal and not think about how my mom is sitting in a bomb shelter right now. [But when it's silent] everything just drops. It goes from 100 to zero. And you just feel absolutely empty inside. I'm scared it's going to affect us for longer.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, urged President Joe Biden to afford the discretionary TPS designation but hopes to see more, including additional presence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more resources for U.S. embassies in neighboring countries, and a declaration of humanitarian parole for Ukraine, which would grant entry to some people who are otherwise ineligible for admission into the United States.
Lincoln-Goldfinch learned about Sasha Spektor and his wife's babies shortly after their birth, while the twins were still in a hospital in Kyiv. Spektor, a Chicago resident of many years, came to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. His two babies were born via surrogate about eight weeks premature on Feb. 25, the day after the invasion began, when Spektor and his wife were still in Chicago. Hospital staff placed tiny Lenny and Moishe in incubators as bombs fell near the Kyiv hospital.
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