The Department of Homeland Security is broadening federal immigration authorities’ ability to detain legal refugees who have not yet obtained green cards, citing national security concerns and the need to ensure refugees undergo additional screening,

The new policy is a shift from an earlier memo, that failure to obtain lawful permanent resident status was not a 'basis' for removal or detention.

Resettlement organizations said the updated guidance represents a dramatic shift in how refugees are treated after being legally permitted to enter the United States.

Memo permits ICE to detain legally admitted refugees for 'rescreening' if they do not obtain green card within one year of arrival

American officials welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday afternoon, in a ceremony greeting them as refugees under the argument that they are fleeing discrimination and racially based violence in ...