Take that, Vladimir Putin! A record number of Russians have fled their homeland and are seeking asylum in New York following Putin’s war against neighboring Ukraine — contributing to th…
The number of Russians with cases in New York State Immigration Court — which rules on asylum/deportation cases — has skyrocketed 158% over the past year, the data reveals.
Meanwhile, data shows there were only a few hundred cases of Russians in asylum/deportation proceedings going back every year to 2001 — meaning the numbers surged nearly 10-fold sinceThe US Department of Justice immigration court statistics were retrieved by Mayor Eric Adams’ Office of Immigrant Affairs from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. City Hall is monitoring immigration court proceedings to track the migrant flow.
Russian nationals are the sixth largest group of asylum seekers, or 3% of the total, tracked by the city — behind Central and South American countries Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru and Mauritania in Africa, the mayor’s office says. But Krikorian said being opposed to the war or avoiding the military draft in Russia are not necessarily grounds for asylum — and that many are here illegally.Krikorian said many Russians don’t like the authoritarian direction their country is heading, adding, “This is more a matter of, ‘strike while the iron is hot.'”There have been 8,002 asylum cases involving Russian nationals in New York City for the current fiscal year.
“To date, New York City has accepted over 110,000 migrants from Haiti, Mexico, Columbia, and Venezuela, with an overwhelming majority of their asylum cases rejected.”
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