The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just issued a new memo, stating that refugees who hadn’t gotten their green cards should be arrested and detained indefinitely. When you consider the administration’s $38.3 billion plan to acquire and retrofit huge warehouses across the country into new immigration detention centers, it creates a terrifying reality for immigrants.
This new directive rescinds a 2010 memo that stated failing to apply for lawful permanent resident status within a year wasn’t a reason to detain refugees who entered the U.S. legally. Two Trump officials, acting ICE director Todd M. Lyons and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow, wrote that the memo was incomplete. They claim the law requires DHS to detain these refugees and subject them to new interviews while in custody.
