DHS expands detention power for refugees awaiting green cards
The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo expanding detention authority for legal refugees who have not yet adjusted to permanent residency, allowing immigration officers to arrest and detain such refugees one year after admission and potentially hold them for the duration of the inspection process; the move reverses prior policy that detention wasn’t mandatory and has drawn sharp criticism from refugee groups and a Minnesota court case challenging the policy, all amid the Trump administration’s broader refugee admissions crackdown.
