Ukrainian Refugees Tijuana WEB
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- Ukrainian Refugees Tijuana WEB
- May 3, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE REFUGEES TIJUANA HEADLINE: Program Aims to Help Ukrainian Refugees Come to US TEASER: Some advocates believe sponsorship requirement will make it more difficult PUBLISHED AT: 05/03/2022 at 9:01am BYLINE: Genia Dulot DATELINE: TIJUANA, MEXICO VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: SKS, Reifenrath VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, interview with Polukhtin and Frishko recorded via Skype, pictures of Polina and her family are courtesy of Polina Frishko PLATFORMS: WEB___TV X RADIO X TRT: 2:53 VID APPROVED BY: Salem Solomon TYPE: TVPKG/RADIO EDITOR NOTES: Time references reflect expected release next week)) ((INTRO:)) [[Washington’s Uniting for Ukraine program aims to streamline how Ukrainian refugees come to the United States. From the US-Mexico border, Genia Dulot reports for VOA on what the plan means for Ukrainian refugees.]] ((NARRATOR)) Ukrainian-born American Vitaliy Demyanik flew from New York to Tijuana, Mexico, a month ago to help Ukrainian refugees arriving at the U.S. border. ((Vitaliy Demyanik, Volunteer)) “Thousands of Ukrainian refugees sitting on a sidewalk, there’s a small bus stop, one toilet, no place to charge your phone, out in the open.” ((NARRATOR)) Volunteers helped turn this community sports club into a temporary shelter, through which, Demyanik says, thousands had passed. From there, buses took them to the border, where they were processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents and allowed to enter the United States. Those buses stopped last week, [April 25] when the border was closed to Ukrainian refugees. They were told instead to apply online through the Biden administration’s new Uniting for Ukraine program. Mark Rybikov, a volunteer on the U.S. side of the border, says the new program will stop the crowded conditions that he’s seen since the start of the war. ((Mark Rybikov, Volunteer)) “People will get a visa and fly to the United States on much better basis. They can obtain that visa in Europe. They can obtain it in Mexico City. There is no reason to come to Tijuana and be in a camp.” ((PHOTOS COURTESY: Polina Frishko)) ((NARRATOR)) Polina Frishko hid in a bomb shelter in Kyiv for 12 days with her husband, her son, and their dog. Now they are in Poland trying to apply for the Uniting for Ukraine program. She says the biggest challenge is finding a U.S. sponsor to back them. ((Polina Frishko, Ukrainian Refugee)) ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) “The program says that all financial support lies on the shoulders of people who are going to host you, and this probably terrifies them. Two years, they are thinking about, there is no support in insurance way, in any kind of way.” ((NARRATOR)) At present, the program does not include financial support for Americans who agree to help Ukrainian refugees. Immigration attorney Natalia Polukhtin says that will limit its effectiveness. ((Natalia Polukhtin, Immigration Attorney)) ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) “If you look at the situation with Afghan refugees, which was not long time ago, it’s been heavily criticized for bringing people here without any support, any resource, anything, that we can extend to those people. I anticipate that it will be very similar for the Ukrainian community.” ((NARRATOR)) The new program requires background checks for U.S. sponsors and does not offer a path to citizenship for Ukrainian refugees. After two years, they will have to leave the United States unless they have changed their U.S. immigration status. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Tijuana, Mexico))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: UKRAINE REFUGEES TIJUANA HEADLINE: Program Aims to Help Ukrainian Refugees Come to US TEASER: Some advocates believe sponsorship requirement will make it more difficult PUBLISHED AT: 05/03/2022 at 9:01am BYLINE: Genia Dulot DATELINE: TIJUANA, MEXICO VIDEOGRAPHER: Genia Dulot VIDEO EDITOR: PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: SKS, Reifenrath VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, interview with Polukhtin and Frishko recorded via Skype, pictures of Polina and her family are courtesy of Polina Frishko PLATFORMS: WEB___TV X RADIO X TRT: 2:53 VID APPROVED BY: Salem Solomon TYPE: TVPKG/RADIO EDITOR NOTES: Time references reflect expected release next week)) ((INTRO:)) [[Washington’s Uniting for Ukraine program aims to streamline how Ukrainian refugees come to the United States. From the US-Mexico border, Genia Dulot reports for VOA on what the plan means for Ukrainian refugees.]] ((NARRATOR)) Ukrainian-born American Vitaliy Demyanik flew from New York to Tijuana, Mexico, a month ago to help Ukrainian refugees arriving at the U.S. border. ((Vitaliy Demyanik, Volunteer)) “Thousands of Ukrainian refugees sitting on a sidewalk, there’s a small bus stop, one toilet, no place to charge your phone, out in the open.” ((NARRATOR)) Volunteers helped turn this community sports club into a temporary shelter, through which, Demyanik says, thousands had passed. From there, buses took them to the border, where they were processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents and allowed to enter the United States. Those buses stopped last week, [April 25] when the border was closed to Ukrainian refugees. They were told instead to apply online through the Biden administration’s new Uniting for Ukraine program. Mark Rybikov, a volunteer on the U.S. side of the border, says the new program will stop the crowded conditions that he’s seen since the start of the war. ((Mark Rybikov, Volunteer)) “People will get a visa and fly to the United States on much better basis. They can obtain that visa in Europe. They can obtain it in Mexico City. There is no reason to come to Tijuana and be in a camp.” ((PHOTOS COURTESY: Polina Frishko)) ((NARRATOR)) Polina Frishko hid in a bomb shelter in Kyiv for 12 days with her husband, her son, and their dog. Now they are in Poland trying to apply for the Uniting for Ukraine program. She says the biggest challenge is finding a U.S. sponsor to back them. ((Polina Frishko, Ukrainian Refugee)) ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) “The program says that all financial support lies on the shoulders of people who are going to host you, and this probably terrifies them. Two years, they are thinking about, there is no support in insurance way, in any kind of way.” ((NARRATOR)) At present, the program does not include financial support for Americans who agree to help Ukrainian refugees. Immigration attorney Natalia Polukhtin says that will limit its effectiveness. ((Natalia Polukhtin, Immigration Attorney)) ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) “If you look at the situation with Afghan refugees, which was not long time ago, it’s been heavily criticized for bringing people here without any support, any resource, anything, that we can extend to those people. I anticipate that it will be very similar for the Ukrainian community.” ((NARRATOR)) The new program requires background checks for U.S. sponsors and does not offer a path to citizenship for Ukrainian refugees. After two years, they will have to leave the United States unless they have changed their U.S. immigration status. ((Genia Dulot, for VOA News, Tijuana, Mexico))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date May 3, 2022 09:21 EDT
- Byline Genia Dulot
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America