Key Highlights
- Citizenship and Immigration Services is deploying personnel on site in Minnesota to reexamine the legal refugee population, which includes Somalis, and search for cases, potentially leading to deportations.
- Operation Post-Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening (PARRIS) was launched in mid-December to reexamine Minnesota’s roughly 5,600 refugees from countries of concern listed in President Donald Trump’s travel ban proclamations.
- "Minnesota is ground zero for the war on fraud.
- USCIS’ show of force in Minnesota demonstrates that USCIS will not stand idly by as the US immigration system is weaponized by those seeking to defraud the American people," USCIS spokesperson Matthew Tragesser told Fox News Digital.
- "American citizens first, always." The 39 countries listed in the president’s travel ban include Somalia, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, and others.
