Border agents in California have been ordered to detain illegal immigrants from Russia and five other former Soviet countries and deport them immediately. The newspaper reports this New York Post, refers to an internal document.
Citizens of other countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, have the opportunity to remain in the United States while their cases are pending.
“Only adult immigrants from Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will be immediately sent for deportation from the United States,” the memorandum stated in the broadcast.
This rule applies to the section of the border near the city of San Diego, where the bulk of illegal immigrants from “eastern hemisphere” countries occur. The number of Russian immigrants among them reached a record 43 thousand in the last fiscal year, which ended in September.
Before that, various regions of Russia offered Jobs for labor migrants from Afghanistan.
Putin also stated About the absence of a meaningful migration policy in the Russian Federation.
Former HSE experts calculatedThat 1.1 million immigrants per year may be needed to maintain Russia’s population.