The White House on March 24 said that it would welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others “fleeing Russia’s aggression through the full range of legal pathways, including the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.”
The White House said in a fact sheet that in particular, “we are working to expand and develop new programs with a focus on welcoming Ukrainians who have family members in the United States. The United States and the European Union are also coordinating closely to ensure that these efforts, and other forms of humanitarian admission or transfers, are complementary and provide much-needed support to Ukraine’s neighbors.”
“While most displaced Ukrainians want to stay in Europe, the U.S. government expects to use its refugee admission program as well as the parole system and immigrant and non-immigrant visas to bring in Ukrainians,” NPR reported, citing a senior Biden Administration official.
Along with accepting the up to 100,000 refugees, the White House also said that Thursday that it would donate $1 billion to help European countries handle a surge of migrants fleeing Russia’s invasion, the New York Times reported.
“The announcement comes as countries facing an exodus of some three million refugees have sought assistance from the United States, which has been engaged in its own struggle to absorb thousands of refugees from the war in Afghanistan,: wrote New York Times reporters Miriam Jordan and Michael Shear.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 