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BumRushDaShow

(150,579 posts)
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 08:41 AM Apr 5

Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately, citing an "error"

Source: CBS News

Updated on: April 4, 2025 / 9:45 PM EDT


The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainians refugees they needed to leave the U.S. immediately because their legal status was being revoked, telling CBS News the message was sent by mistake. Some Ukrainians who had entered the U.S. under the Biden administration following Russia's invasion of their homeland received emails this week telling them that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be terminating their legal protections, according to advocates and a notice obtained by CBS News.

"DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole," the April 3 notice said, referring to the temporary legal status that the Biden administration granted to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. "Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice." The Biden administration welcomed roughly 240,000 Ukrainians under a policy known as Uniting for Ukraine, or U4U, that allowed Americans to sponsor Ukrainians displaced by Russia's invasion. More than 20,000 Ukrainians who flew to Mexico at the start of the war were also allowed into the U.S. under the parole authority, which allows officials to offer temporary work permits and deportation protections to migrants on humanitarian grounds.

If recipients failed to leave the U.S., the message read, they would "be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States," unless they have received another immigration status. The notice also said recipients would lose their work permits once their parole status was revoked, and encouraged them to sign up for self-deportation using a government smartphone app known as CBP Home that the Trump administration recently repurposed. "Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you," the notice warned. "Please depart the United States immediately."

But when CBS News asked representatives for DHS about the notice, they said it had been sent by accident. "A message was sent in error to some Ukrainians under the U4U program," DHS said in a statement to CBS News Friday. "The U4U parole program has not been terminated."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-accidentally-tells-ukrainian-refugees-they-must-leave-u-s-immediately-citing-an-error/



None of this stuff is an "error" or done "by accident". I.e., "it's not a bug but a feature".
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Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately, citing an "error" (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 5 OP
It's the Trump Maladministration. 100% incompetent. sinkingfeeling Apr 5 #1
Omg this fucking headline! LearnedHand Apr 5 #2
Thank you Zackzzzz Apr 5 #17
None of this is an accident, it is stalking and harassment. Irish_Dem Apr 5 #3
I think it was petty retribution for Zelenskyy not paying proper respect to King Shitzenpantz William Seger Apr 5 #7
Of course it is. Those who do not kiss ass must be destroyed. Irish_Dem Apr 5 #19
This has made headlines because there is a lot of support for Ukraine, but Don1 Apr 5 #4
"Did they have DOGE work on a query from their database" BumRushDaShow Apr 5 #5
Sick sob's. 58Sunliner Apr 5 #6
This is their way of saying, Self Deport NOW LittleGirl Apr 5 #8
Accidents happen. COL Mustard Apr 5 #9
Stephen Miller is a sick unit orangecrush Apr 5 #10
How many were sent out and how many left because of message? mymomwasright Apr 5 #11
THIS ... is as important as the lame ass "error" excuse. KPN Apr 5 #13
As we used to say: Accidentally on purpose...nt Wounded Bear Apr 5 #12
+++++ KPN Apr 5 #14
"...accidentally?" I'm calling "Bullshit!!" Grins Apr 5 #15
The GOP bronxiteforever Apr 5 #16
This is another example of . . . peggysue2 Apr 5 #18
Yeah, "accidentally"🙄nt Javaman Apr 5 #20

LearnedHand

(4,605 posts)
2. Omg this fucking headline!
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 08:50 AM
Apr 5

"Trump Administrstion orders Ukrainian refugees to "leave the US," then rescinds order as "error"

There, fixed it. JFC how much I long for non-ass-licking headlines. Pardon the crude imagery.

Zackzzzz

(53 posts)
17. Thank you
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:24 AM
Apr 5

So often I read articles and say to myself, was that for or against.
Once I read a report where the first sentence was a whole paragraph.

Don1

(1,664 posts)
4. This has made headlines because there is a lot of support for Ukraine, but
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 09:36 AM
Apr 5

which other immigrants received the same letter from DHS?

Also, how did this "error" happen? Did they have DOGE work on a query from their database and then give them a report of 33,000 (or whatever) people to mass-mail their legal status was being terminated?

At best, this is incompetent and reckless.

BumRushDaShow

(150,579 posts)
5. "Did they have DOGE work on a query from their database"
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 09:44 AM
Apr 5

They have been on a mission to blindly rescind EVERYTHING that Biden did via "AI" (Absolute Idiocy), regardless of whether Biden did it to comply with a law (which was the case of these individuals) or was at his discretion.

LittleGirl

(8,651 posts)
8. This is their way of saying, Self Deport NOW
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 10:56 AM
Apr 5

This administration doesn't give a flying fuck what happens to foreigners. They hate everyone and even, most Americans, especially liberals.

mymomwasright

(420 posts)
11. How many were sent out and how many left because of message?
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:02 AM
Apr 5

Correspondents don't ask important questions

KPN

(16,543 posts)
13. THIS ... is as important as the lame ass "error" excuse.
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:08 AM
Apr 5

There are no excuses. Everything is intentional with this -- allow me to use a euphemism -- sick administration.

peggysue2

(11,746 posts)
18. This is another example of . . .
Sat Apr 5, 2025, 11:41 AM
Apr 5

The Trump regime's love of terrorizing people and turning lives upside down in a wave of malevolent chaos. Just the beginning, of course, because the thought police, the brown shirts and book burners are already out there.

The incompetence is clear but it's driven by a callous, even gleeful disregard for any and all who disagree, fight back and refuse to give up.

Enough!

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