Trump To Revoke Legal Status For 240,000 Ukrainians? PressSec Says “Fake News”!

Earlier this morning, news circulated from Reuters that the Trump Administration was preparing to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians.

See one post here:

https://t.co/jgaRJ6pvdb

— We The Media (@WeTheMedia17) March 6, 2025

And from the Reuters article:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.

The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden’s administration.
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The planned rollback of protections for Ukrainians was underway before Trump publicly feudedwith Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week. It is part of a broader Trump administration effort to strip legal status from more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the U.S. under temporary humanitarian parole programs launched under the Biden administration, the sources said.

Even the NY Post jumped on the story:

Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations https://t.co/nVMfGBtk2a pic.twitter.com/XdqIoa81cB

— New York Post (@nypost) March 6, 2025

But no sooner did that article start to go viral, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped in to declare the report “FAKE NEWS”.

Here was her post correcting the record on X:

This is more fake news from Reuters based on anonymous sources who have no idea what they are talking about.

The truth: no decision has been made at this time. pic.twitter.com/djf0CjTfiD

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 6, 2025

NOTE the very interesting wording thought: “No decision has been made at this time.”

That certainly leaves the door wide open for a decision to be made at any point in the future.

We’ll continue to monitor and bring you updates.