Russians and Ukrainians traveling to Mexico driving across US border to claim asylum

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Almost 20,000 Ukrainian and Russian adults arrived in the US in 2021.

The asylum-seekers have increased due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Most on-foot asylum-seekers are turned back at the border, vehicles are stopped less frequently.

An increasing number of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing political repression and war are traveling to Mexico, buying "throwaway cars" and driving to the US border to seek asylum, Reuters reports.

Customs and Border Protection data only show figures up to January before Russia invaded Ukraine, but they were already growing rapidly. The war could well encourage greater numbers to make the journey.

US border officials encountered about 6,400 Russians in the four months between October 2021 and January this year, CBP data show, said Reuters. It compares with approximately 4,100 apprehended during the entire 2021 fiscal year, which ended September 30. There was also a significant increase for Ukrainians, with just over 1,000 apprehended between October 2021 and January, compared to about 680 for the last fiscal year.
 
Ukrainians being the third-most-common nationality among arrivals within the last week, according to Reuters.

Russians are also fleeing in growing numbers due to President Putin's authoritarian crackdown on dissent, political protests, and the independent media.

"Repression is intensifying and the people coming out to protest the war are treated very harshly," Dmitriy Zubarev told Reuters. "There will be more people trying to use refugee routes to escape the bad situation in the country," Zubarev, a civil rights lawyer, who left in June 2021, said.
Driving to the border improves the chance of 'jumping the line'

At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Representative Lou Correa, a Democrat from California, said he was taken aback by the number of Russian and Ukrainian migrants arriving by car when he visited the San Ysidro port of entry between San Diego and Tijuana about a month ago.

He said a border agent showed him 20 cars that had been pulled over, explaining they were full of Ukrainian and Russian migrants.

"This problem is not going away," Correa said.

Many migrants from Russia and Ukraine opt to go via Mexico as it is easier to obtain a visa for Mexico. They then seek asylum into the USA rather than get a tourist visa for the USA, Jessica Bolter, an immigration expert at the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, explained to Reuters.

Many at the US borders are arriving by car in an attempt to circumnavigate a pandemic-era policy known as Title 42.

Under the policy, most on-foot refugees are turned back at the border. Vehicles are stopped less frequently.

Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott told Reuters that this means some are buying cheap cars in Mexico to raise their chances of getting through to the US, describing it as a way to "jump the line."

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that his country will continue to accept Ukrainian refugees.

The Biden administration has announced temporary protection from deportation to Ukrainians in the US. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on March 3 that it had created an 18-month Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Ukrainians living in the US since March 1.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russians-ukrainians-traveling-mexico-buying-174009281.html
 
I dont know why ANYONE escaping the war would be turned back. Russians or Ukrainians.
Biden border is such a FUBAR scene -but it makes no sense


This is what real asylum claims look like.
not migrants from Africa or Where ever looking for economic improvements
 
dukkha said:
I dont know why ANYONE escaping the war would be turned back. Russians or Ukrainians.
Biden border is such a FUBAR scene -but it makes no sense


This is what real asylum claims look like.
not migrants from Africa or Where ever looking for economic improvements
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Biden reinstated Trump's 'hold in Mexico' program.
 
dukkha said:
correct
which are the worst? economic migrants -but Biden lets them in on the pretext of asylum claims

Trump used REMAIN and cut that crap out
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Bleh. I'm not getting into a waste of time pissing match with you about Biden. The US needs to welcome Ukraine war refugees seeking asylum. I'll leave it at that.
 
Diesel said:
Bleh. I'm not getting into a waste of time pissing match with you about Biden. The US needs to welcome Ukraine war refugees seeking asylum. I'll leave it at that.
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since you cant seem to discern economic from war/persecution asylum claims- calling such "pissing match" -
it is indeed a waste of my time to continue
 
dukkha said:
since you cant seem to discern economic from war/persecution asylum claims- calling such "pissing match" -
it is indeed a waste of my time to continue
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:laugh: How typical of a fascist piece of shit like you. I say I agree with you. You respond with, "And Biden bad, right?!" I say, "Why don't we stick to the thread topic you picked?" And you throw a fucking tantrum and tell me I don't know the difference between various claims for asylum, which, by the way, does not include "economic", idiot.

You couldn't go 8 posts without shooting yourself in your diabetic foot and derailing your own thread. Way to go, kkkultist.
 
Diesel said:
:laugh: How typical of a fascist piece of shit like you. I say I agree with you. You respond with, "And Biden bad, right?!" I say, "Why don't we stick to the thread topic you picked?" And you throw a fucking tantrum and tell me I don't know the difference between various claims for asylum, which, by the way, does not include "economic", idiot.

You couldn't go 8 posts without shooting yourself in your diabetic foot and derailing your own thread. Way to go, kkkultist.
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get a grip. you always lose your shit
I mentioned post 2
This is what real asylum claims look like.
not migrants from Africa or Where ever looking for economic improvements
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if you had a brain you'd get the fact the VAST MAJORITY of migrants are indeed economic migrants.
They say so themselves " I want a good job" or "to support my family"

That doesn't mean they qualify for asylum, but Biden is letting them in
and releasing them by the literal millions with either a "notice yo appear" or a "report to appear"

Biden is abusing the asylum laws for his defacto open border policy is my claim<--

If you want to reply see if you can do so in an exacting manner not "fascist /kkkltist" noise
 
dukkha said:
get a grip. you always lose your shit
I mentioned post 2

if you had a brain you'd get the fact the VAST MAJORITY of migrants are indeed economic migrants.
They say so themselves " I want a good job" or "to support my family"

That doesn't mean they qualify for asylum, but Biden is letting them in
and releasing them by the literal millions with either a "notice yo appear" or a "report to appear"

Biden is abusing the asylum laws for his defacto open border policy is my claim<--

If you want to reply see if you can do so in an exacting manner not "fascist /kkkltist" noise
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:laugh: If that's what you wanted to discuss, you should have opened open a thread about it. No matter how many times you bang your own hollow head into the wall, I am not going to follow your change of subject/derailment of the thread the moment you create it.

There probably isn't a better candidate for asylum than a war refugee.
 
Cypress said:
A lot of Trump ass-lickers complained loudly and bitterly against taking in Afghan war refugees.
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That's why I'm surprised the OP took this route. As we can see, he only did it because he wanted to talk about Biden and economic refugees, not about the subject of his own damn thread.

We'll see what his kkkult friends say about this. I wouldn't be surprised if they say we should turn Ukrainians away and save space for Russians.
 
Diesel said:
That's why I'm surprised this OP took this route. As we can see, he only did it because he wanted to talk about Biden and economic refugees, not about the subject of his own damn thread.

We'll see what his kkult friends say about this. I wouldn't be surprised if they say we should turn Ukrainians away and save space for Russians.
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maybe when you grow up you can keep 2 ideas in your mind at the same time

post 1 and 2 was the OP.
post 3 was my comment both about the war asylum claims and economic migrant claims

and now you are wasting yet more of my time with deflections
 
dukkha said:
maybe when you grow up you can keep 2 ideas in your mind at the same time

post 1 and 2 was the OP.
post 3 was my comment both about the war asylum claims and economic migrant claims

and now you are wasting yet more of my time with deflections
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:laugh: You are the OP. You opened a thread about one subject with intentions of talking about a different subject. It's lazy. It's sloppy. It's a form of clickbait.

There probably isn't a better candidate for asylum than a war refugee.
 
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