Mark Levin takes caller concerned with his fiancé's immigration status
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From the February 19, 2025, edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show
MARK LEVIN (HOST): Let's take a few calls, shall we? Yes. We can. Let's go to Joe in Pennsylvania, XM Satellite. Joe, go right ahead, please.
CALLER: Yeah. I'm — this is actually the first time I've been on the show. It's a great honor to be on your show. My father has been on your show in the past for a few years.
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LEVIN: Go ahead. Yes, sir.
CALLER: So I just wanted to talk about, I've actually been to Ukraine during the war. My fiancée is Ukrainian. I filed the paperwork for her to come over here because we actually were just friends at the time, but we became more with time. And, she's been here because her city gets bombed usually every day. And it just — it — it's very concerning to me.
I've been a Republican, ever since I could vote and same with my family. And, so her family's here. I'm here.
LEVIN: Let me guess, you're gonna say, what is this animus against Ukraine and this either open or backdoor support for a mass murderer like Putin? That's your question. Right?
CALLER: Yes. And also my other question is, you know, her parents are here and she is here and her daughter and we've been planning on getting married now for a few months. And it seems like I've read on the news now that, if you were paroled into the United States, you can't file any forms for immigration.
LEVIN: I'd have to be honest with you. I'm not an immigration lawyer, and I don't know what the status is of firing — filing for parole. So I can't really help you with that.
CALLER: It wouldn't be filing for parole. It would be filing because we've been planning on getting married for a while.
LEVIN: I know. But I said I — I'm not really up on this right now. I'm certainly not up to what's up on what's going on right now.
CALLER: It seems like though it's crazy to me how much isolationism is going around. There's so much talk. It seems like people — it's flipped. They hate Ukraine now. I've never.
LEVIN: Yeah, I don't get that at all. You won't hear that from me. Some of these other people, they're gonna have to explain themselves. They never wanna come on here and debate me. I tried to do that once with one of them, and it was really kinda silly.
But, no, I don't get it. I really don't get it at all. You're talking to somebody who's mostly of Russian ancestry, some Ukraine, but mostly Russian, and I don't really care. We've spent trillions of dollars since the end of World War II to protect ourselves from enemies and primarily the Soviet Union, and now it includes, of course, Russia, China, and others. We talk about spending money.
That's a lot of money. That's number one. That doesn't mean we should be wasteful or frivolous with our money with any country, Ukraine or otherwise. But, you know, a lot of us see what Ukraine is facing, that Ukraine was invaded, that Ukraine is actually the good guy here. Putin's actually the bad guy.
He's an assassin. He's KGB. He was an enforcer in East Germany in the day. The mentality remains the same. They talk about an election. That guy has been ruling that country for 24 years and his elections are a joke. I mean, if elections are the standards, we have to go all throughout the Middle East. Why are we dealing with Saudi Arabia? Why are we dealing with Jordan? Why are we dealing with Egypt?
All those — none of them have elections. For that matter, why are we dealing with New York, which has lousy elections? That's a joke. Look. I'm sympathetic to your view, Joe, and so we'll see how this plays out.
Thank you for your call. Best to your father. We'll keep going here.