Thousands of refugees are waiting at the U.S.-Mexico border. This might sound like old-news, but these asylum-seekers are getting through the border. What makes them different from the previous waves of migrants is that these people are from Ukraine.
More than 2,000 Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border at Tijuana into San Diego. President Biden has ordered border agents to process any Ukrainians seeking sanctuary in the U.S.
He says the United States will accept up to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine.
But why exactly are Ukrainians coming to the U.S. through Mexico from Europe amid the war in their homeland?
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