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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge says Trump administration ‘terrorizing’ refugees under ‘dystopian nightmare’ policy

A federal judge has blasted President Donald Trump’s administration for turning the “American dream into a dystopian nightmare” with Homeland Security’s new policy to arrest and detain recently resettled refugees who are not yet lawful permanent residents.

The order from Minnesota District Judge John Tunheim is blocking federal authorities from interpreting immigration law to “terrorize refugees who immigrated to this country under the promise that they would be welcomed and allowed to live in peace, far from the persecution they fled.”

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