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A federal judge is considering terminating Minnesota mass immigration operation Officials are allegedly “hunting down” recently resettled refugees, including children, “from door to door” and sending them to internment camps in Texas.
Trump administration Operation Paris was launched earlier this month to specifically target 5,600 new refugees in the state who are legally in the country after an extensive vetting process but have not yet become legal permanent residents.
but Immigration and Customs Enforcement According to a recent class-action lawsuit, police arrested them at immigration checkpoints, on their way to work or school, and showed up at their doorsteps without warrants.
“I fled my home country because I faced government repression,” wrote one plaintiff, D. Doe. He said he flew to Texas in shackles after he was suddenly arrested at his home earlier this month. “I can’t believe this is happening here again. It’s chilling and I’m scared.”
Lawyers for the targeted refugees asked a judge on Monday to halt the operation, which they argued was fueled by the president’s “hostility” toward Somali immigrants, whom he derided as Somali immigrants. “Garbage” “from hell”.
The Twin Cities are home to approximately 80,000 people of Somali descent, the vast majority of whom are legal residents or U.S. citizens. But the president has seized on a series of fraud cases involving government programs in which most of the defendants are from Somalia, and he has sent a large number of officials to the state as part of his efforts to deport millions of people across the country.
in a statement In announcing the operation, Department of Homeland Security officials said Minnesota is “ground zero in the war on fraud.”
“This action in Minnesota demonstrates that the Trump administration will not stand idly by while the U.S. immigration system is weaponized by those seeking to defraud the American people,” a spokesperson wrote. “American citizens and the rule of law always come first.”
But refugee attorneys argue that ICE is “intentionally and unlawfully intimidating resettled refugees who have not been accused of any wrongdoing,” according to a statement from Kimberly Grano, a staff attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project.
“These are people who entered this country legally under the refugee affirmative action program,” attorney Michelle Drake Tell Monday before District Judge John R. Tunheim.
“They’re vetted before they get here,” she added. “Many have been living in refugee camps in other countries for years, waiting to enter the United States. They undergo extensive background screening, even biometric screening, and they receive work authorization before coming to this country. These are the people we work with.”
independent The Department of Homeland Security has been asked to comment.
The plaintiffs in the case entered the U.S. through the Refugee Admissions Program “after undergoing a painstaking vetting process and waiting years for safe resettlement,” according to the lawsuit.
They are not subject to any deportation order and are not considered a flight risk, the attorneys wrote, “but they have been detained or face imminent risk of detention” because homeland security officials “arbitrarily decided to intimidate and intimidate refugees in Minnesota without any rational basis or legal authority” since they were admitted under President Joe Biden’s administration.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is reviewing thousands of refugees who entered the U.S. legally during the Biden administration, while Department of Homeland Security officials Widespread removal of legal protections About 1 million immigrants entered the country at that time.
Presidential Directive An overhaul of the nation’s refugee admissions program Last year, we examined whether it was in America’s interest to allow refugees into the country.
Shortly after Trump took office, the government suddenly canceled previously scheduled refugee flights. In the months that followed, the government slashed financial aid and health insurance for refugees, and the president’s Big Beauty Act restricted refugee eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, children’s health insurance, and emergency food assistance.
In May, a group of 59 white South Africans entered the United States as “refugees,” and the United States “essentially expanded their citizenship,” Trump said at the time.
The administrative body is Dramatically reduce the number of refugees entering the country each year and reserving most of the remaining limited places for white South Africans. Refugee resettlement groups said the move was a departure from longstanding refugee policies based on humanitarian needs, rather than ideology or identity.
Refugee admissions now gave clear priority to the resettlement of Afrikaners, and the admissions cap had been significantly reduced from 125,000 that year to just 7,500.
“The federal government is removing refugees from their homes and communities, undermining their hard-won security,” said Michelle Garnett McKenzie of Advocates for Human Rights, the group that organized the Minnesota case.
“International law and U.S. law are clear — we have a legal and moral obligation to protect individuals facing persecution and not subject them to incarceration, isolation, coercion and abuse,” she said. “The government must stop these illegal practices, which undermine our commitment to these refugees and cause serious harm to individuals, families and communities.”