Dozens of Ukrainian men have been deported by ICE. Some were sent straight to the military | CNN

Volodymyr Dudnyk was picked up by Ukrainian military draft officers almost immediately after crossing the border into Ukraine following his deportation from the United States. He was sent straight to a training center. “When I was on the plane to Ukraine, I knew what was coming. But I hoped that perhaps they’d at least let me go home first. Everything happened even faster than I’d thought. I never made it home; I haven’t seen my parents yet,” the 28-year-old told CNN. Dudnyk spent 51 days in boot camp, then a few weeks training as a drone operator. He is now fighting on the frontline in eastern Ukraine, where his fellow soldiers gave him a new military callsign: “America.” In President Donald Trump’s second term, the United States has cracked down on every form of immigration and embarked on a mass deportation campaign. While the Trump administration says it is focused primarily on major criminals that it calls “the worst of the worst,” many of those detained have committed only minor offenses or have no criminal records. This has brought deep uncertainty to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who are now at risk of being removed from the US. But for Uk