Lawyers ask federal judge to freeze Homeland Security’s Operation PARRIS as Trump administration alleges widespread fraud

A federal operation is scooping up refugees in Minnesota and in many cases shipping them to detention facilities in Texas before their families can find lawyers and file an appeal.

Update: Shortly after publication, a federal judge in Minnesota granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from arresting and detaining lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota.

Dozens of immigrants living in Minneapolis with refugee status have been arrested in recent days and sent to detention centers in Texas, legal representatives warn. According to the Advocates for Human Rights, a legal group in Minneapolis, at least 100 ...

As a young man, George Thawmoo repeatedly fled his rural village in Burma, taking refuge in the jungle with his family until the Burmese government had retrenched. As soldiers left, they would set fires and burn the bamboo huts that his people — the ethnic Karen — called home.