Judge bars Trump admin from detaining thousands of Minnesota immigrants admitted as refugees [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Feb 10th, 2026, 2:09 pm
The Trump administration may not detain thousands of immigrants in Minnesota who were admitted into the country but have not yet received "lawful permanent resident (LPR) status," a federal judge ruled. And, Senior U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim wrote in his 20-page order on Monday, those fitting this description who have already been detained must be released immediately.
Tunheim recounts the case starting from Jan. 9, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Operation Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening (Operation PARRIS). The agencies declared at the time that the initiative was a "fraud investigation" reexamining "thousands of refugee cases through new background checks and intensive verification of refugee claims," with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also involved.
"To effectuate this reexamination, DHS began the warrantless arrest and detention of refugees present in the United States for greater than one year who were still awaiting adjudication of their LPR status," the judge recounts, pointing to how this timing — one year — is a "check-in" and not designed to be a detention.
Several refugees filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the "Refugee Detention Policy" being employed by DHS, and they subsequently sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) to put a halt to it.
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Full headline: 'Solution in search of a problem': Judge bars Trump admin from detaining thousands of Minnesota immigrants admitted as refugees
Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26905516-uhavbondiopn020926pdf/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26905516/uhavbondiopn020926pdf.pdf
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