mmigrants who came to the U.S. as refugees could be detained after a year of arriving here under a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security.
Refugees must either get a green card within a year, or “present themselves to the agency” to avoid detention, according to a Feb. 18 memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The move marks yet another attempt from the Trump administration to further limit legal pathways to resettle in the United States. The administration last year set the lowest-ever cap for refugees it would admit into the U.S.
And USCIS later announced that it would re-review the status of everyone who had been admitted into the U.S. as a refugee under the Biden administration, essentially reopening those cases and risking the loss of legal refugee status.
They’re getting told to board the train, aren’t they? If these refugees show up, they’ll be deported legally or not.
Get your green card within a year, but we’ll force it to be delayed if you try. Present yourself and be caged.
The circumstances that just happened to that Ukrainian guy who was trying to avoid the war.
