Immigrant trucker returns to war-torn Ukraine rather than risk ICE encounter: ‘I preferred going back home’ via US news | The Guardian — New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion Karina Krainova, who worked as a trucker in the US after fleeing Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine, where she is from, rushed to the closest motor vehicle’s office last fall, just days after the US transportation department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for immigrant drivers like her. She was already afraid of being deported back to Ukraine as the war rages on. She

Facing new US restrictions, a Ukrainian immigrant trucker returned to war-torn Ukraine to avoid potential encounters with immigration enforcement. The new rules threaten noncitizen trucker l...

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