Kulyk legally entered the U.S. in late 2023 along with his wife, 38, and daughter, who’s now 5. The family was sponsored by U.S. citizens as part of the Uniting 4 Ukraine program, a humanitarian program set up in April 2022 to allow Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war to live and work in the U.S. on “parole.”
Once the initial two-year parole period expires, entrants can file for re-parole to remain in the country longer. That’s exactly what Kulyk says he did. His wife and daughter’s applications were approved. But his remained pending.
He said he was putting groceries in his car on Jan. 1 when he was approached by three ICE agents.
“I explained to the ICE officers that the war was killing people, that my wife had a disability, that it was violence, terrorism which we had escaped from but one of them began to laugh,” Kulyk told The Daily Beast. “I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.”
Goon probably couldn’t even articulate why he wanted Russia to win.
Important to remember that ICE is and has always been a bipartisan enterprise, and in fact, go look up who first appointed Tom Homan.
Yep it’s been broken for years. As soon as they started enforcing a 100-mile border zone, I knew something was rotten. But what’s been happening lately highlights that immigration needs fixed more than ever. Write or call your congressman tell them we need immigration reform now before more people die or have their lives ruined for no good reason. It seems like congres needs to be told what to do by enough of their voters or they do nothing. The main thing they’re worried about above all else is getting reelected.
All the violations of liberty and building of the surveillance state have been bipartisan.
“I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.”
Not surprised at all.
I think some ICE goons should be deported to Russia, let’s see how they like being conscripted when they get there.
Every single story I read about US Americans moving to Russia because they think Russia is so much better is always a hilarious read. I particularly liked the black woman who thought there wasn’t racism in Russia. 🤣🤣🤣
Just to be clear, Edward Snowden leaked classified info to US journalists, and fled the country, he tried going elsewhere, but US took his passport and Russia accepted him staying. And he choose to flee after watching Obama’s war on whistleblowers, and how some are still in prison for the first amendment in US constitution. Some even faced what many consider to be torture.
That was a wild ride. Snowden was stateless after his passport was revoked and Russia accepted him in transit to another country.
He wanted to go to Ecuador first, but his passport was revoked while he was in Russia, where he stopped on his flight from Hong Kong. He’s still in Russia, openly speaking on Twitter all the time.
Holy shit, that’s not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that’s crawling into it’s stomach as hard as you can.
After pre-masticating your own face for it.
Is it possible that some of them are hired Russian mercenaries?
Doubtful, Russia needs all their men for war.
They’re probably sending the people too stupid to be fed to the meat grinder
See the video of the guy that couldn’t figure out why the water bottles were frozen? No such thing.
it also doesn’t make sense.
“I want russia to win the war,that’s why I’m sending reinforcements to ukraine”
They’re not thinking that far ahead and likely give zero shits either way.
I bet they chose to tell this guy they support Russia just to make arresting this guy more abusive.
Russiaboos think that no amount of bodies or western equipment is actually hurting Russia, only delaying the inevitable complete capitulation. He’s happy he gets to, in his eyes, send a Ukrainian to die pointlessly.
They want immigrants out more. You know take care of byour own house first.
I hate these fucking fascists.
Trumps goons are pro Russia? That surprises no one.
I bet Putin has video of Trump banging a guy … thus explaining his pro Russia stance.
American conservatism has an ideological bromance with Russia.
- violent suppression of LGBT
- systemic racism
- patriarchal values, domestic violence
- subservience to (state controlled) church
- nationalist chauvinism
- wars of plunder
Seems more likely they’re business partners in a criminal empire that includes child sex-trafficking, likely using DONT’s “modeling” agencies to move or entrap victims
They haven’t read foundations of geopolitics
They haven’t read anything that wasn’t on their Facebook feed.
I bet Putin has video of Trump banging a guy
This is such a bizarre take, given that we have mountains of compromat released through the Epstein files, plus all his sex scandals dating back to the 1970s. None of them indicate that
a) He’s sexually attracted to men
or
b) Revealing any amount of his habitual pedophilia of women affects how he governs
Trump isn’t hard to control. Anyone and everyone with two shillings to rub together has been able to bribe him. But liberals need to believe he’s a closeted homosexual for some reason.
Check this guy out. He draws the line with Trump being gay. I mean he could be a rapist, a pedophile, and guilty of countless crimes of moral turpitude but he better not be GAY
I am pretty sure his first wife admitted he was GAY. He even had a boyfriend when he was in boarding school, so GAY. Not that there is anything wrong with being GAY and the fact that Trump loves men.
“habitual pedophilia of women” isn’t a thing that exists. Children aren’t women.
Did you miss the weird “blowing Bubba” comments in the files?
Because I didnt.
The subtlety of context in this case was missed by anyone who believed that comment was literal.
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The comment was in email by Epstein’s brother, who hated tRump.
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He was aware that Clinton and Epstein were acquaintances (plausible) or it was a reference to the name of Gislain’s horse (more likely).
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He likely knew, or it had been alluded to, of Epstein (or someone) having damning evidence of tRump improprieties of sexually explicit, and potentially embarrassing, blackmail material.
Reading that email, with the context, made it sound much less like a literal, factual statement and more an insulting joke about the proclivities of a serial liar and suspected/known sexual deviant. Learning of the horse’s name, as well, afforded further credence to it being an insult about tRump and the horse, than about tRump and Bill Clinton.
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I think Bubba was a horse though so not the same as a man
Bubba was Bill Clinton’s nickname, and also the name of Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse. You pick which would be easier to co troll him with.
It’s horrifying to say, but while Trump boasts he could shoot someone on the street and still be popular, it only takes one passing transwoman to pull that rug out from under him. You think he’s chromosome-testing every trafficked woman on his private jets?
You think he’s chromosome-testing every trafficked woman on his private jets?
I don’t think it matters in any meaningful way. You’re pointing to court gossip like it affects national policy.
Well I’m not, I’m not the person you were responding to.
But your absolute confidence that it hasn’t happened is somewhat undermined as I’d bet that being provided witg dozens if not hundreds of random, suffering women and raping them without a second thought increases the chances of having had sex with a transwoman, not decreases it.
But your absolute confidence that it hasn’t happened
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof
You might try reading the rest of the paragraph?
More desperate women to spend those ICE paychecks on.
Heck they only got the job because as one of putins referal getting them to the top of the list.
If america ever has a brief moment of intelligence. And asks itself if we are the bad guy. Ya. You are. And it’s not a new thing. You have been the bad guy a long time. Things like this is just a small symptom. The internal rot is now showing through the propaganda and flag you have been trying to cover it with.
You can lay all that at the feet of the boomer generation and their parents, thank you. American exceptionalism was propagandized in our textbooks, by our media, and worst of all by the voting bloc that now demands we shut up and work harder to get to where they got to. Many of us in gen-x and older millennial’s were just as horrified at the atrocities of our earlier generations as many who faced down the receiving end of that exceptionalism outside the US. However, it wasn’t until the last 20-25 years that we even knew all the awful shit that happened at the hands of American imperialism.
We didn’t learn the same history in school. We didn’t have the ability to push back against the generational propaganda being fed to us from every side. Nor did we have the ability to vote to stop it at any point before the information age. So please don’t throw all American’s under the same umbrella as our government, past or present. Many of us were born into this mess and have been powerless to stop it our entire lives. We may never get a chance to make amends for our past, at this rate, but not for a lack of trying.
Or, if you prefer, we can lump all current citizens of any nation in with their government’s past. Probably wouldn’t seem fair to blame all Canadians for their treatment of native people and the indoctrination schools containing mass graves of Inuit children that seem to turn up regularly, aye?
Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.
Let’s not be too quick to judge. Maybe American all support Graham Platner like that guy with his nifty hat with Platners tattoo.
Americans are bifurcated between “people who want to nuke Moscow” and “people who think Stepan Bandera didn’t go far enough”.
But just like with Vietnam, there’s vanishingly little compassion afforded anyone in the region. It’s all just “I hope more of the other team dies”
They think Rambo is a documentary
I mean, First Blood was loosely based on real-life World War II veteran Audie Murphy’s struggles with PTSD. And it was further informed by the deplorable treatment of protesters at the hands of local police and national guard - many of them returning veterans - during the Vietnam War. The original novel was intended to juxtapose this initial horrifying abuse of a homeless American veteran with the events happening half a world away by a US-sponsored dictatorship.
But reactionaries always forget the first film and fixate on the next four, because it lets Rambo embody the mythological special forces superhuman rather than the Vietcong revolutionary resisting imperial oppression.
Which one was dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters?
Yup. American.
I know this is a serious story, but that headline had me wondering when the war got to Walmart.
I thought I was having a stroke.
To fellow Ukrainians who haven’t realized this yet: migrants are not “they”, it’s our friends and family, and making any migration means-tested and bureaucratic is bullshit that will make “illegals” out of random people, out of you, and cause great suffering. Let’s build international solidarity with migrants and refugees from all countries, in all countries.
Walmart is involved in the Ukraine war now?
No, this is the Georgia (country) / Georgia (US State) thing all over again.
Every US Walmart has a Ukraine inside of it, this particular one just happened to also be at war.
