Trump Halt to Ukraine Migrant Program Strains Their US Employers

President Donald Trump’s elimination of a program that helped hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Venezuelans, and other immigrants find US sponsors and jobs has outraged advocates and left their employers scrambling for ways to keep them.

More than 730,000 immigrants have arrived since the Biden administration in 2022 established parole pathways that let US residents sponsor applicants from Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

Losing those new arrivals could deal a blow to local businesses and towns that have come to rely on those workers to sustain struggling regions.

“This targets people who did ...