Update: Shortly after publication, a federal judge in Minnesota granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from arresting and detaining lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota. The judge ordered that refugees detained in Minnesota be released immediately and those in Texas be released within five days. On a Friday afternoon in the middle of January, agents inside Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s Houston processing center told Andrea to come with them. They gave the young Venezuelan refugee the clothes she’d been wearing when they detained her on the street outside her aunt’s home in Minneapolis, days earlier. They gave her back her cellphone. They kept her driver’s license. “No me dijeron nada ni a donde iba ni nada,”…The post Why Refugees From Minnesota Are Being Sent to Texas appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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