Anatolii Matviichuk didn’t expect to arrive in Texas this way, fleeing bombing in his native Kyiv for a desperate reunion with his daughter and her family....
will be taken in, although a timeline hasn’t been given. That promise comes at a time when the U.S. routinely shuts out others pleading for asylum at its southern border.“Right now in Ukraine, it is not war for Ukrainians,” said Matviichuk, a journalist, poet and touring singer. “It is a war for democratic values because what Russia is doing is unacceptable.”
As the conversation turns back to his next steps in the U.S., he says he wants to find a job and get a car. “I understand there’s bureaucracy, programs, categories and buckets of classifications,” said Regheta, who is a friend of Matviichuk. “I want people to get help, regardless of what situation they are in. It is a dire situation.”The Biden administration has said preference will be given to Ukrainians who have family in the U.S. Matviichuk’s daughter, Slava Berlizova, recently became a naturalized U.S.
“There is no difference between Black and brown asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees,” said Felicia Rangel-Samponaro of the Sidewalk School nonprofit, which operates in Mexican border cities across from the Rio Grande Valley. “People are people, no human is illegal.”the U.S. would provide Temporary Protected Status for those Ukrainians already in the U.S. as of March 1. It’s estimated that there are about 30,000 people in the U.S.
Gelatt believes Biden meant “refugees” in the colloquial sense of someone fleeing a war or earthquake when he said the U.S. would admit 100,000 Ukrainians. Someone who arrives in the U.S. as an official refugee will often go through an extensive overseas vetting process that can take two years or more, Gelatt said.
When war broke out in Ukraine, she feared for the lives of family members who live in Merefa near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. She had trouble eating and sleeping. She was a jumble of emotions.As the war intensified, she pleaded with her 58-year-old father and 49-year-old mother to flee. “I was actually getting in fights with them,” she said. “It is so dangerous.”
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