US lets Ukrainians fleeing war into United States from Mexico

TIJUANA, Mexico: At the US border with Mexico, American officials are allowing Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their homeland to enter the United States and stay without fear of deportation for a year, according to people crossing.

CBP and the US Department of Homeland Security , which oversees the border agency, did not reply to requests for comment. DHS has said in the past that all parole decisions at the border are made on a case-by-case basis. "It's a crazy situation. Your life just stops," he told Reuters as he waited in the sun for over an hour in Tijuana to cross the border on Tuesday."You can't plan for work because of the war, and you don't have work, you can't work."

The US-Mexico border has been closed to most asylum seekers under a pandemic-era policy known as Title 42, but Ukrainians described moving to the front of a line of migrants waiting to make their claims to border officials."I want temporary protection," Alex said,"until the war stops. I know I don't want to be a refugee."

Krasiuk said Russian military attacks on the first day of the conflict were so close to her home the family could hear them. Gathering up some belongings, she, her husband and daughter scrambled first to Moldova, then Romania before reaching Mexico by plane.After questioning by US immigration officials, the family was let into the United States. A DHS stamp in her passport said"PAROLED" with a handwritten date stipulating she could remain in the United States for a year.

Maryna Sokolovska, a US citizen who left Ukraine with her cousin and the latter's child, got her family into the United States after an odyssey that led them through Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Amsterdam and Mexico City and then Tijuana.

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