{"id":1371849,"date":"2022-03-11T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371849"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:26:11","slug":"biden-says-he-will-welcome-refugees-from-ukraine-but-psaki-and-state-department-seem-to-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-will-welcome-refugees-from-ukraine-but-psaki-and-state-department-seem-to-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He Will \u2018Welcome Refugees\u2019 From Ukraine, But Psaki And State Department Seem To Disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-he-will-welcome-refugees-from-ukraine-but-psaki-and-state-department-seem-to-disagree%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden seemingly misspoke about his administration\u2019s policy on accepting Ukrainian refugees Friday, according to statements from White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTTa-V9cvPQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> \u201cI will welcome Ukrainian refugees, we should welcome them here with open arms if they need access,\u201d during a press conference about additional measures taken to hold Russia accountable for its war on Ukraine. He also noted that the U.S. has provided $107 million of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the past two weeks, and that Congress passed an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/09\/house-passes-government-funding-fy2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$13.6 billion<\/a> \u201cin new assistance to the Ukrainian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2022\/03\/03\/secretary-mayorkas-designates-ukraine-temporary-protected-status-18-months\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> March 3 that Ukrainian nationals residing in the U.S. since March 1 will get Temporary Protected Status for 18 months. However, new refugees will be \u201cconsider[ed]\u201d by the U.S., not welcomed with \u201copen arms,\u201d a State Department spokesperson told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe expect most displaced Ukrainian citizens will want to stay in neighboring countries or elsewhere in the EU where they can travel visa-free, where they may have family, and where there are large diaspora communities, in the hope they can return home soon,\u201d a State Department spokesperson said in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIf there are Ukrainians who are not able to remain safely and for whom resettlement in the United States is a better option, we will work with UNHCR and the EU to consider them, bearing in mind that resettlement to the United States is not a quick process,\u201d the statement said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/10\/ukrainian-family-fled-russia-invasion-turned-away-southern-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ukrainian Family That Fled Russia\u2019s Invasion Turned Away At Southern Border)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7390378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7390378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BERLIN, GERMANY \u2013 MARCH 02: People fleeing war-torn Ukraine get food, clothing and toiletries at Hauptbahnhof main railway station on March 2, 2022, in Berlin, Germany. Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly Ukrainian women and children as well as foreigners living or working in Ukraine, have fled the country as the current Russian military invasion continues to inflict growing casualties on the civilian population. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Psaki also seemingly disagreed with Biden\u2019s comment, noting that at present, the U.S. is focusing its efforts by providing aid to countries accepting Ukrainian refugees, but is not accepting them into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast, vast, vast majority of refugees, we believe, will want to stay in neighboring countries in Europe where many of them are \u2014 have family, many of them have worked, many of them have friends and others \u2026 That is why we are continuing to provide humanitarian assistance to neighboring countries who are providing \u2014 who are welcoming refugees from Ukraine, who are providing them the assistance they need in this moment of time.\u00a0 And that\u2019s where we feel our efforts are best focused,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/03\/09\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-march-9-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to comment at the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden seemingly misspoke about his administration\u2019s policy on accepting Ukrainian refugees Friday, according to statements from White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the State Department.Biden said \u201cI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}