The Trump administration accidentally sent an urgent e -mail and told up to 240,000 Ukrainians who legally live in the US to immediately leave the country in 'error'.
Many Ukrainians under a humanitarian program of a Biden era received legally in the US and received an e-mail this week and told them that their status had been withdrawn and they had seven days to leave the country or the 'federal government will find you'.
“If you do not immediately leave the United States, you will be subjected to potential actions of law enforcement that will lead to your removal from the United States,” said Thursday's E -mail.
'Again, DHS will end your conditional release. Try not to stay in the United States. '
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior Security said on Friday that the e -mail had been sent in error and that the Ukrainian conditional programs that had not ended after the Russian invasion of 2022 of that country had not ended.
It was not clear how many Ukrainians the e-mail received, but about 240,000 emigrated to the US since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Many of the immigrants who had received it had renewed their conditional release under the Ukraine program association. Trump paused the program, awaiting an assessment, in January.
The Department of Homeland Security sent a follow-up bill on Friday and inquired that the order was wrong and that “the conditions of your conditional release as originally spent at the moment remain unchanged.”
The Trump administration accidentally sent a solid e -mail and told up to 240,000 Ukrainians who live in the US legally to immediately leave the country in 'error'
Many Ukrainians who are legally in the US under a humanitarian program from a Biden era received an e-mail this week and told them that their status had been withdrawn and they had seven days to leave the country or the 'federal government will find you' (depicted: Ukrainian refugees in Mexico in 2022)
Last month it was reported that the Trump government was planning to withdraw the temporary legal status for around 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia.
Such a movement, which was later called 'fake news' by press secretary Karoline Leavitt of the White House, would be a reversal of the welcome Ukrainians under the government of President Joe Biden.
A Ukrainian parolee, who asked that her name was not used for fear of retaliation from the US government, Reuters told that she could not normally breathe and cried uncontrollably after receiving the e -mail from Thursday.
The woman said that she had renewed her immigration status last August and had told that it was valid for another two years, and she got her brain and tried to find out what she had done wrong to be started from the US.
She could not think of a reason and tell the exhaust valve: “I don't have as much as a parking ticket, don't post on social media.”
Angela Boelens, president of IA Nice, a non-profit in Iowa who sponsored dozens of Ukrainians, said she is aware of at least two women who have received the letter, a pregnant of which is pregnant.
'It's a very scary e -mail. All my families are panicking, “Boelens told Reuters. “I had told people that they would have time after a notification of withdrawal. But this letter is very different. '
For Danyil, whose last name was withheld for safety purposes, he cannot renew his conditional release because of the break.
The Department of Homeland Security sent a follow -up note on Friday and inquired that the order was wrong and that 'the conditions of your conditional release as originally spent at the moment remain unchanged'
It was not clear how many Ukrainians received the e -mail. Many of the immigrants who had received it had renewed their conditional release under the Ukraine program association. Trump paused the program, awaiting an assessment, in January (shown: Ukrainian refugees in Mexico waiting to legally enter the US in 2022)
“I don't want to stay illegal here, but I don't want to go back to Ukraine. I'm scared, I'm young, I want to live, “said the 20-year-old to The Guardian.
'Many people like me dream of staying in the US because there is a chance. I'm afraid to go back, I saw those soldiers. '
Earlier Trump would consider ending the legal status of Ukrainian, even before the recent tensions between Washington and Kiev after the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a controversial meeting with Trump and VP JD Vance.
Senator Edward Markey, Senator of Massachusetts, criticized the Trump administration for the common e -mail error and told the Washington Post: 'Telling Ukrainians that they should return to an active war zone in seven days or be confronted with criminal persecution is unconscious.
“The incompetence and cruelty of the Trump administration remains surprised and they must be held responsible.”
Last month it was announced, the Trump government will withdraw the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States.
The order applies to around 532,000 people from the four countries who have come to the United States since October 2022 under a program called CHNV for which the Biden administration was heavily criticized.
State that they will lose their legal status on April 24 or 30 days after the publication of the notification in the federal register.
Earlier, Trump would consider ending the legal status of Ukrainian, even before the recent tensions between Washington and Kyiv after the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy had a controversial meeting with Trump and VP JD Vance
The new policy influences people who are already in the US and under the humanitarian conditional release program.
It follows an earlier decision of the Trump administration to put an end to what the 'broad abuse' of the humanitarian conditional release called, a long-term legal tools that presidents have used to leave people from countries where war or political instability is to come in and temporarily live in the US.
During his campaign, President Donald Trump promised to deport millions of people who are illegal in the US, and as president he also put an end to legal paths for immigrants to come to the US and to stay.
DHS said that conditional release without a legal basis to stay in the US must leave before their conditional termination date.
