Those who are of interest to the occupiers will be able to get into the program: activists, journalists and other people.
The administration of US President Joe Biden is preparing a plan to accelerate the resettlement of vulnerable categories of Ukrainians fleeing the war unleashed by Russia .
Activists, journalists, and representatives of the LGBTQ community will be able to apply for a quick review of applications, NBC News reports, citing sources familiar with the plan. The plan also calls for speeding up the process of reunifying Ukrainians with relatives living in the United States.
The interlocutors of the journalists found it difficult to answer in what format the plan will be implemented. This could be, for example, a program similar to Priority 2 during the Afghan crisis.
This category was for Afghans who assisted the United States but were not eligible for special immigrant visas: personnel and translators working for U.S. government agencies and forces in Afghanistan (under contract and employment); local American media workers and participants in American projects.
That is, all those whom the Taliban seized power could declare “enemies” because of such cooperation.
According to the press secretary of the President of the United States Jen Psaki , now the White House continues internal discussions on what else can be done to receive refugees.
Many humanitarian organizations are calling on the Biden administration to provide full protection for Ukrainians so that they can live and work in the United States. To do this, refugees must receive assistance from the state, which “Priority 2” does not provide.
“We urge that refugees not be imported in the same way as Afghans. They must accept Ukrainians as they did Kosovars from Macedonia in 1999 – concluding their refugee status after arriving in the United States to ensure all the protection they are entitled to as refugees, “said the head of the Jewish-American humanitarian organization. HIAS Mark Hatfield .
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The Russian occupiers have no support among the population of the controlled Ukrainian cities. They are trying to gain loyalty by intimidating pro-Ukrainian activists and encouraging journalists to cooperate.
On March 21, in Melitopol, the occupiers abducted journalists Yulia Olkhovskaya and Lyubov Chaika , publisher Mikhail Kumok and editor-in-chief of the Melitopol Vedomosti newspaper Yevgenia Boryan .
The journalists were released after talking about the need to cooperate with the occupiers. The whereabouts of Mikhail Kumok remain unknown.
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