African immigrant advocates point to 'double standard' as Ukrainians receive U.S. relief.
and prosecution than the general population, 76 percent of Black immigrants are deported because of contact with police, according to the Black Alliance report.
“We’ve always known that African, Black people always get the worst of the worst,” Bello said. “Ukraine has TPS after days of conflict, and there’s no Cameroonian TPS after five years. That discrimination should not come as a shock because every other program within American immigration justice is anti-Black, anti-African.
However, immigrant advocates have noted that the U.S. has not granted Cameroon TPS designations despite years of pressure, and it onlyRacial disparities regarding refugees from Ukraine are also becoming evident among European leaders. Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, “These are not the refugees we are used to. ... These people are Europeans.”
. Ukrainians who said they believed getting into the country would be simple are running into the realities faced by those fleeing violence from Central American countries. Several Ukrainian asylum-seekers have been in holding areas near the border waiting for days to be processed alongside Central American refugees who have waited weeks or longer.
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