‘I realized that my country was doing something wrong’: Nearly 22,000 Russians have tried to enter the US since Putin’s war draft

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Nailia Manzurina’s eyes filled with tears as she remembered the moment she and her two young sons had to separate from her husband in their native Russia. After 40 days of waiting in Reynosa, Mikhail says US immigration authorities allowed him and his family to enter the United States through something called humanitarian parole – which allows people who would otherwise be ineligible for admission to the US to enter the country for a temporary period of time for urgent humanitarian reasons. ”Mikhail says his family will file for political asylum and his dream is that his boys will one day become US citizens and grow up free and safe

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