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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Refugees face ‘grave harm’ after ICE memo allows arrests for those without green cards, advocates warn

The Trump administration is threatening thousands of recently arrived refugees with arrest and indefinite detention if they have not yet received a green card.

An internal memo, revealed in court documents Wednesday, marks a stark reversal of long-standing policy that protected legally present refugees who have not yet obtained a green card, in their first year in the United States.

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