DHS memo signals plan to detain refugees for indefinite vetting
TL;DR
The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo directing federal immigration agents to arrest refugees who have not yet obtained green cards and detain them indefinitely for re-screening, a dramatic policy shift that reverses decades of protections and threatens tens of thousands who entered during the Biden administration; resettlement groups say the guidance upends protections and endangers refugee families.
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- New DHS memo outlines plan to detain refugees for further vetting The Washington Post
- Refugees Without Green Cards Could Be Arrested Under New Trump Policy The New York Times
- Refugees in the U.S. could be arrested under a new immigration memo NPR
- New Trump administration order could lead to the detention of thousands of legal refugees NBC News
- Amid lawsuit, federal judge weighs extending protections for refugees from arrest, detainment in Minnesota Star Tribune
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