{"id":131581,"date":"2023-03-07T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=131581"},"modified":"2023-03-07T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:49:11","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-americans-have-welcomed-ukrainian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/tens-of-thousands-of-americans-have-welcomed-ukrainian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of Americans have welcomed Ukrainian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have volunteered to sponsor Ukrainians seeking refuge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoom in: <\/strong>Seattle and Sacramento have been some of the most welcoming metro areas in proportion to their populations, according to Homeland Security data. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York had the largest total number of people apply to sponsor Ukrainians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>One sponsor family,<\/strong> based in Austin, Texas, welcomed a Ukrainian family in time to celebrate this past Christmas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The couple from Kyiv had held on until October before deciding to leave for the safety of their children.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;We have to do something to change for our kids, so they will be safe,&quot; Kateryna, the mother, told Axios, reflecting on the day they decided to leave.<\/li>\n<li>They applied for the sponsorship program in the U.S. through the Welcome.us hub and within weeks were connected with Suezean and Nathan Matarazzo of Austin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>By the numbers: <\/strong>Over a quarter million Ukrainians have been granted entry into the U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 113,000 have arrived through the &quot;Uniting for Ukraine&quot; program, which offers two-years of humanitarian parole to Ukrainians sponsored by family, friends or total strangers.<\/li>\n<li>Some took a chance, flying to Mexico and crossing the border into the U.S. to seek asylum last spring. Others arrived with previously obtained short-term visas or were granted official refugee resettlement\u00a0\u2014 a much longer process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Zoom out<\/strong>: The global crisis \u2014 with more than 8 million Ukrainians now scattered throughout Europe \u2014 was a turning point for the Biden administration&#x27;s approach to immigration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humanitarian parole was used as a last-resort to bring in tens of thousands of Afghans following the fall of Kabul. It then became the basis of a formal pathway for desperate Ukrainians.<\/li>\n<li>Welcome.us launched its Ukraine program in April, capturing the broad American support for Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>That same process\u00a0\u2014 offering humanitarian parole coupled with stricter rejection of migrants at the border\u00a0\u2014 inspired the administration&#x27;s new approach to Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Cubans and Haitians at the southern border. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ukraine also<\/strong> further opened the door for average Americans to bring in and care for refugees from around the world. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugee resettlement in the U.S. has been almost entirely handled by the federal government, the U.N. and a small network of NGOs. That could soon change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;It&#x27;s opening a window to the solution at scale for what have been some really intractable humanitarian and border crises,&quot; Nazanin Ash, CEO of Welcome.us, which has served as the main hub for people looking to sponsor parolees and refugees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What to watch: <\/strong>If the war in Ukraine drags on, people who have sought safety in the U.S. could lose their temporary status and face few options to legally stay.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humanitarian parole lasts two years. It also still takes time to get work authorizations and the private sector is not always set up to handle employees with parole, Ash said. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The bottom line: <\/strong>Ukrainians have left their country not to chase an American Dream, said Kateryna, who has settled with her family into their own place.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;We go to the United States only because we are afraid for our lives, because now in Ukraine, we don&#x27;t have a future. We don&#x27;t have tomorrow.&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;What they&#x27;re doing is a very brave thing. They&#x27;re leaving everything they own, their hopes and dreams, to get the children to safety,&quot; Seuzuen said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/26\/cities-americans-sponsor-ukrainian-refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have volunteered to sponsor Ukrainians seeking refuge. 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