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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

White House grants ICE power to detain refugees for aggressive ‘rescreening’

two people walk on a sidewalk, one has a sign attached to the back of their jacket that says 'neighbors say ice out'
ICE watchers patrol the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on 9 January in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Trump administration is moving to arrest thousands of people already legally admitted to the US as refugees and detain them indefinitely for aggressive “rescreening”, a report published on Thursday said.

Under the new policy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that federal immigration officers can and should arrest anyone who has not yet obtained the right to permanent residence, a so-called green card, and subject them to interviews to assess their refugee claims while they are in custody, as first reported by the Washington Post.

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