Immigrant trucker returns to war-torn Ukraine rather than risk ICE encounter: ‘I preferred going back home’

Immigrant trucker returns to war-torn Ukraine rather than risk ICE encounter: ‘I preferred going back home’

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. S...

By Justo Robles