At least 240,000 people could be detained and deported.

The administration of President Donald Trump considers revoking the refugee status of approximately 240,000 Ukrainians who arrived in the United States after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

While no official decision has been announced, media reports quote sources in the White House as saying that the measure could be enforced as soon as April. Thousands of Ukrainian refugees could be detained and deported without court warrant.

The move has little to do with the dispute between Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski in the White House last month.

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It is actually part of a broader effort to cancel the humanitarian and asylum programs from which about 1.8 million immigrants have benefited over the past four years.

The Trump team also plans to strip at least 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans from their legal status already in March.

U.S. courts are expected to be overwhelmed with lawsuits filed by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who live in the country legally but feel their rights under American laws have been hurt.

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Most Ukrainians fleeing war have been absorbed by the European Union, settling mainly in Poland and Germany - more than one million in each country.

According to U.S. census estimates, in 2021 there were 1.25 million naturalized Americans of full or partial Ukrainian descent representing 0.4% of the U.S. population.

Credit: Wikipedia via U.S. Census Bureau

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees updated the number of Ukrainian refugees in mid-February, estimating more than 6.9 million globally, of whom over 6.3 million have been accommodated in Europe.

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