New ICE rules will affect the constitutional rights of everyone while making legal immigration even tougher, an expert has claimed.
Laurie Ball Cooper, the vice president of US Legal Programs at the International Refugee Assistance Project, warned that the fresh memo handed down to Immigration and Customs officials would infringe on and terrorize more people than the initial legislation had. Cooper, along with the CEO of refugee agency HIAS, Beth Oppenheim, criticized the rules when speaking with CNN.
The Department of Homeland Security introduced fresh policies earlier this week, with a memo confirming immigration officers may "arrest and detain" refugees who "failed to adjust" to permanent residence status a year after it is granted.
A new memo shared by the DHS reads, "When a refugee is admitted to the United States, the admission is conditional and subject to a mandatory review after one year."
It adds that detained refugees may remain in custody "for the duration of the inspection and examination process.” US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow and Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons issued the memo earlier this week, rescinding previous government policy on refugees.
“Refugees may be considered to have voluntarily returned to custody” by submitting application paperwork and appearing at scheduled appointments with immigration services, according to the new memo.
Cooper said, "This memo is part of a broad and concerted effort to strip refugees of their legal status and render them deportable. This government will clearly stop at nothing to terrorize refugee communities, and really all immigrants, while trampling over our constitutional rights."
Oppenheim added, "This memo was done in secret, with zero coordination with the organizations that serve refugees. This policy is a transparent effort to detain and potentially deport thousands of people who are legally present in this country, people the US government itself welcomed after years of extreme vetting."
"And we did hundreds of hostages," he remarked. "I said the last 20 are gonna be very tough, very, very tough."
"And we got them back. We got the living back," Trump continued. "And then we only got about 16 of the dead. And we said, well, you got to get them all. You promised them all."
"And they dug and dug and dug. You can imagine it's a job that's brutal. And Hamas really did a lot of that work. And you've got to give them credit for that. They brought the last one home a week ago. And we got all 28 of them."
According to Drop Site News, "some 10,000 Palestinians are still missing, buried under the rubble, and another 10,000 Palestinian captives are detained in Israeli torture prisons and military sites."
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Mountbatten-Windsor has long denied wrongdoing in connection with his friendship with the late sex offender, but he shows up multiple times in files released by the U.S. Department of Justice, as does President Donald Trump – who was close friends with Epstein for years.
"Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries," said Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown. "Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647."
"Look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the f------’ british," whooped The Onion's Ben Collins.
"Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible 'America at 250!' achievement," posted science journalist Dave Levitan.
"So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty," noted writer Julian Sanchez.
"It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for 'misconduct in public office,' which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with," added The Economist's Matt Steinglass.
"John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f------ credible," marveled Greg Greene, of Planned Parenthood Action.
" UK: Prince Andrew arrested, South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life, Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence, USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers," observed Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro.
"Curious whether the Epstein billionaires and cronies will stop traveling outside the U.S. out of concern that in other countries they could be arrested," wondered Reuters correspondent Patricia Zengerle.
"Virginia Guiffre should still be alive and seeing the results of her rare courage and integrity," lamented writer Charlotte Clymer. "She spoke out against the horrific crimes of some of the most powerful and corrupt men in the world when there was no incentive to do so, and finally, the world is following her lead, much too late."
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"I believe it's the most consequential board, certainly in terms of power, and in terms of prestige, there's never been anything close," Trump said. "Almost everybody's accepted, and the ones that haven't will be. Some are playing a little cute. It doesn't work. You can't play cute with me. They're playing a little bit, but they're all joining."
"A few that we really don't want because they're trouble, take care of them," he continued.
Trump went on to claim that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had secretly named the building after him.
"This building was built for peace, and nobody knew what to name it," he recalled. "And then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear I didn't. I swear, I had no idea."
"They said, there's a surprise coming. I didn't know that surprise," he added. "I thought they were going to give me a lot of money or something, maybe cash. You could always use some extra cash."
"That was Marco and JD and a group got together, and they did that, and I just thought it was very nice."
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