DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees

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https://www.lawdork.com/p/uscis-refugee-detention-rescission-memo

The Department of Homeland Security is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted between January 20, 2021 and February 20, 2025.

One of its keys steps to doing so — reversing the government’s longtime position on whether a federal law allows the government to detain certain refugees — appears to based on nothing, at best, or a lie, at worst.

The information is coming out of litigation filed in the wake of the launch of Operation PARRIS (Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening), an “investigation” announced by DHS on January 9 that is targeting certain refugees in Minnesota to start.

As Law Dork reported on Wednesday, the Trump administration had suggested in federal court in Minnesota recently that it had rescinded 2010 guidance that barred detaining refugees who had not yet obtained lawful permanent resident status — a green card — after a year of being in the U.S. The guidance itself — as U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, a Clinton appointee, has made clear — wasn’t even new, as it echoed earlier views of the provision in the Refugee Act of 1980 — 8 U.S.C. 1159.

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