The DHS stated it would reexamine applications of refugees seeking permanent legal status in Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a new investigation Friday targeting refugees seeking safety in Minnesota.
In “Operation PARRIS,” DHS officials are reexamining about 5,600 claims of refugees seeking lawful permanent resident status (known as Green Cards), according to a press release Friday. DHS officials will then pass along cases to ICE agents.
“Minnesota is ground zero for the war on fraud,” a DHS spokesperson stated. “This operation in Minnesota demonstrates that the Trump administration will not stand idly by as the U.S. immigration system is weaponized by those seeking to defraud the American people. American citizens and the rule of law come first, always.”
The DHS stated this operation was an attempt to “root out fraud.”
This news comes after more than 2,000 ICE agents have flooded into the state. On Wednesday, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis residents and state officials – including Gov. Tim Walz – have called for ICE agents to leave the state.