Though an official announcement has not yet been made, various media outlets are reporting this morning that the Biden administration will admit at least 100,000 of the 3.6 million Ukrainians displaced by the conflict with Russia, now entering its second month.
Those 100,000 will join the approximately same number of Afghans who began being resettled in the U.S. last year after Biden’s debacle in Kabul; approximately 76,000 of them are already here.
According to reports, many of the Ukrainians will be resettled under the same auspices as most of the Afghans, i.e. under “humanitarian parole,” a catchall category used to avoid legal caps on refugee numbers and when more stringent “refugee” status cannot be confirmed.
The expected announcement was leaked after Biden found himself being criticized during his current European visit for not doing enough. To further ingratiate himself with the international woke community, he apparently has directed that the resettlement efforts will focus on “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons.”
In recent years, it should be noted, criminal behavior by Ukrainians toward Americans has been growing. Consider the following passage from the Country Reports website, directed to American visitors:
Street crime remains a serious problem in Ukraine. . . . [Y]ou and other foreign visitors may be perceived as wealthy and become easy targets for criminals. United States citizens often stand out in Ukraine, and are therefore more likely to be targeted than in Western European countries where incomes are higher and U.S. citizens may blend in better. The police are poorly paid, motivated, trained, and equipped, and also are considered to be one of the most corrupt organizations in Ukraine. Ukrainian police and emergency services remain generally below Western European and U.S. standards in terms of training, responsiveness, and effectiveness. Ukrainian law enforcement and emergency officials rarely speak English and interpreters are not readily available.
The site goes on to describe the many kinds of nonviolent crimes endemic to Ukraine, such as credit card, ATM, and Internet scams. All in all, the place has not been especially hospitable to Americans.
Before reflexively admitting large numbers of persons from any such country out of an excess of sentimentality, the United States should consider the safety of its own citizens, which, of course, it never does anymore.
For more, see the NY Post.