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

A new DHS memo details plan to allow federal immigration officers to detain legal refugees in the US indefinitely

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.