Trump administration sued over refugee policy changes

Advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration over three policies they say have left refugees in “legal limbo” by blocking them from obtaining green cards and speeding up the process for terminating their lawful status.

The class action lawsuit, filed Monday in Massachusetts, accuses the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of violating federal immigration law by launching “coordinated attacks” against refugees who have resettled in the U.S. and already been vetted.

“This lawsuit challenges these actions, which, taken together, keep refugees from obtaining lawful permanent residency—a status to which they are statutorily entitled—and place them at risk of termination of their refugee status with no meaningful opportunity to be heard,” the complaint states.

The Trump administration ordered immigration officers in November to re-vet all refugees who were admitted under the Biden administration, placing an indefinite hold on all pending green card applications.

The lawsuit blasted the reinterview process as a........

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