Green Card applicants in Minnesota targeted through Operation PARRIS
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it is "reexamining" the refugee status of Minnesotans who have entered the country legally but have not yet been granted their Green Cards.

On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents.

“They were getting ready for work, and all of a sudden their house was surrounded by men with drawn guns saying, ‘Oh, it’s OK. It’s just some paperwork that needs to be fixed. Just open the door,'” said Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota.

The mother did as she was told, and her 20-year-old son was immediately removed from the home, the latest in a growing number of planned detentions involving recent immigrants with lawful refugee status who have applied for but not yet received their permanent residency, otherwise known as their Green Cards.

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  • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    353·
    15 hours ago

    i want to go back to a world where I neither cared nor heard about Minnesota. Minnesota is not a state that was really ever in the news. Now it’s Minnesota all day and night. Leave the state and the cleansing waters of Lake Minnetonka in peace, president Trump.