President Donald Trump of the United States is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled their country due to the Russia conflict.
The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden's administration.
The planned rollback of protections for Ukrainians was reportedly underway before Trump publicly feuded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week.
It is part of a broader Trump administration effort to strip legal status from more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the US under temporary humanitarian parole programs launched under the Biden administration.
US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the department had no announcements on the plan yet.
Meanwhile, the White House and Ukrainian embassy are yet to comment on the development.
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