#ICE Arrested Dozens of #Refugees in #Minnesota & Sent Them to #Texas, Lawyers Say
The refugees, many of them from #Somalia, had PASSED #security screenings before coming to the #UnitedStates. The #Trump admin has vowed to “re-examine thousands of refugee cases.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/ice-arrests-refugees-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The arrests of the #refugees, who are mainly from #Somalia & include #children, come after an announcement last Friday that the #Trump admin would “re-examine thousands of refugee cases through new background checks,” focusing on people who have yet to obtain #GreenCards after arriving in the #US. But that announcement, by US Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], did NOT say that the refugees would be subject to #arrest & transfer to immigrant #detention facilities.
#USCIS did not respond to emailed questions Tuesday. #ICE, the agency that detained the #refugees, according to the lawyers, also did not respond.
Michele Garnett McKenzie, executive director at the Advocates for #HumanRights in #Minneapolis, said most of the detainees were being transferred to facilities in #Texas. She estimated that at least 100 people had been detained.
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“It’s happening very fast,” she said, adding, “It’s devastating the community.”
Among the cases she cited was one of a #Somali mother who was detained, leaving behind a toddler, & another family in which a mother & 2 adult children were detained.
#Trump closed the #US to #refugees from around the world on his first day in office. In November, he began targeting refugees in #Minnesota, a #BlueState with the country’s largest Somali population….
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