How Trump Will Fill His Gulags – Mother Jones

Tunheim also found the government's argument would lead to absurd results. Because the law "makes refugees ineligible for adjustment [to lawful permanent resident status] until one year after entry, Defendants' interpretation would subject every refugee to detention, unless USCIS conducted the inspection and examination precisely at the one-year mark," he wrote. "That outcome is nonsensical and would cause many unadjusted refugees to celebrate their one-year anniversary in this country in a jail cell." This is obviously not what the law requires. But the administration is asking the courts to apply the judicial stamp of approval to its cruel and absurd policy anyway…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-refugee-immigant-ice-detention/ 

 

Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo

Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn't notified, officials say…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/border-patrol-refugee-buffalo

 

US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans | US immigration | The Guardian

Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/trump-refugee-restrictions-white-south-africans 

 

White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts | US immigration | The Guardian

Charl Kleinhaus confirms he owns account that contained posts, as White House uses antisemitism as rationale for deportations…



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/south-african-refugee-antisemitic-posts 

 

Comparison of refugee, Social Security payments is outdated and exaggerated - PolitiFact

…But the $2,125 figure did not refer to a monthly payment to assist refugees directly. It referred to a one-time grant to resettlement agencies for each refugee, a portion of which can be used to fund housing and basic necessities during refugees' first few months in the U.S…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/sep/30/instagram-posts/comparison-refugee-social-security-payments-outdat/

Afghan refugee debate fractures GOP - POLITICO

The question of resettling individuals and families in the U.S. is scrambling the party's Trump-era consensus on tighter immigration and refugee policy...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/18/afghan-refugee-debate-fractures-gop-506135

Trump Admin Deporting Unaccompanied Minors Due To Coronavirus Guidance

A refugee advocate said the administration was “using” a public health crisis “to advance their long-standing goal of overturning US laws protecting vulnerable children."....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/coronavirus-unaccompanied-minors-deported

Far-Right Terrorists Want Syria Crisis to Bring on Race War

It’s time to pay attention. The fighting in Syria’s Idlib province is sending refugee shock waves surging toward a Europe that’s unprepared politically—or morally—to receive them.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-terrorists-want-syria-crisis-to-bring-on-race-war

Majority of Americans Support Allowing Central American Refugees Into U.S. - Newsweek

As the Trump administration seeks to cut down on legal immigration, a new poll shows that a growing majority of Americans support allowing Central American refugees into the United States. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-support-allowing-refugees-united-states-1454020

Comparing Benefits for Refugees and Senior Citizens - FactCheck.org

A popular meme falsely claims that each month refugees in the United States receive over three times more money in "federal assistance" than Social Security beneficiaries. That's a new version of an old claim we debunked over a decade ago. ....
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/comparing-benefits-for-refugees-and-senior-citizens/

Trump just admitted something he probably shouldn’t have about the census citizenship question - The Washington Post

President Trump just explained why he thinks we need a citizenship question on the census. But in doing so, he seems to have said the quiet part out loud — and conceivably could have undercut the Justice Department’s legal case...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/05/trump-just-admitted-something-he-probably-shouldnt-have-about-census-citizenship-question/

Trump’s war on refugees is tearing down US's life-changing resettlement program

Tecle Gebremicheal loves Idaho, and he wants people to know about how it has now become home after he fled an orphanage in Eritrea at 14. After eight years in an Ethiopian refugee camp, he resettled in Idaho in 2012, learning at an airport in Florida that instead of being sent to Texas, as originally planned, he was being moved to what was then a mysterious place. “People were saying ‘Tecle, you can say no, this is America, you have freedom’ because everyone was shocked and nobody had heard of this secret state [Idaho],” Gebremicheal said...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/trump-refugees-us-resettlement-program

Germany fears far-right violence after pro-refugee politician killed and others threatened - The Washington Post

Concerns over right-wing extremist violence mounted in Germany this week, after a string of death threats against several politicians that support allowing refugees into the country. The threats came only days after Walter Luebcke, a regional politician and member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party, was fatally shot at point-blank range in what investigators described as an “execution.” One suspect with ties to the far-right has been taken into custody...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/20/germany-fears-far-right-violence-after-pro-refugee-politician-killed-others-threatened/

‘I Can No Longer Continue to Live Here’ - POLITICO

What's driving so many Honduran women to the U.S. border? The reality is worse than you've heard.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/07/domestic-violence-immigration-asylum-caravan-honduras-central-america-227086

Nielsen v. Preap and Due Process Due Aliens (Opening Arguments podcast OA263)

Today’s breaking news episode contains your guide to the hotly-debated Supreme Court decision in Nielsen v. Preap, regarding how and whether aliens can be detained without due process. What does it all mean? Listen and find out!

We begin, however, with a brief update on the Congressional Investigations we discussed in Episode 259 with the news that Hope Hicks will cooperate. Listen to our past episode if you don’t realize how huge this is.

Then, we move on to some news regarding a recent order handed down by Judge Kollar-Kotelly in the District Court for the District of Columbia with respect to the trans ban. We dive into the unique procedural issues giving rise to this order and tamp down on your enthusiasm that this may put the trans ban in jeopardy.

Then, it’s time for our main segment breaking down Nielsen v. Preap. We tell you exactly what this decision means along with the reasons why the Court reached the result it did.

But that’s not all! After that, we have our weekly trip to Yodel Mountain with two items: (1) an Andrew Was Right about the source of the National Enquirer‘s acquisition of compromising material about Jeff Bezos; and (2) a follow-up on the New York indictment of Paul Manafort.

And if all that isn’t enough for you, well, we end, as always, with a brand new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #119 involving long-term contracts for the sale of wheat. As always, remember to follow our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and like our Facebook Page so that you too can play along with #TTTBE!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa263-nielsen-v-preap-and-due-process-due-aliens/

Despite Being Unable to Spell Menstrual, Scott Lloyd's ORR Tracked Teens' Periods on a Spreadsheet - Jezebel

Last spring, a judge ruled that incompetent scumbag Scott Lloyd and his shit show Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) could no longer prevent underage refugees from legally seeking abortions. However, new documents suggest after the ruling, he continued to track pregnancies in order to do just that...
https://theslot.jezebel.com/despite-being-unable-to-spell-menstrual-scott-lloyds-o-1833348219

Stephen Miller & President Trump -- Miller Reveals the Weakness of the Trump Legal Argument on the Wall | National Review

One of the first rules of effective litigation is that you don’t want your client to make statements out loud that reveal the weakness of your legal case. On Sunday morning, Trump adviser Stephen Miller violated that rule. In a remarkable exchange with Chris Wallace, he demonstrated the extraordinary weakness of the administration’s statutory argument. Here’s the exchange:..
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stephen-millers-own-words-show-the-weakness-of-the-trump-legal-argument-on-the-wall/

Arkansas grocery store sparks controversy with 'Heaven has a wall' ad mailers -The Hill

A Christian grocery store in southeast Arkansas offered a weekly ad mailer to customers with a message referencing the controversy over President Trump's proposed border wall...
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/429411-arkansas-grocery-store-sparks-controversy-with-heaven-has-a

Why white evangelicals are so hostile to immigration - Vox

68 percent of white evangelicals say America has no responsibility to house refugees....

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/30/18035336/white-evangelicals-immigration-nationalism-christianity-refugee-honduras-migrant

'Who said that I have to be a refugee forever?'--Palestinians in Gaza reflect on living in 'world's largest open-air prison' - Mondoweiss:

Young Palestinians often describe their upbringing in the Gaza Strip as serving a sentence in "the world's largest open-air prison," and see themselves as trapped between Israel's refusal to support Palestinian statehood, and an international community willing to look the other way. .....
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/10/refugee-palestinians-largest/