Judge slams brakes on Trump's 'dystopian nightmare' to lock up refugees

A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked President Donald Trump's plan to arrest thousands of legal refugees for questioning and re-evaluation, calling the plan a "dystopian nightmare."

The order was first reported by Chris Geidner, who runs the Law Dork blog.

"In a pair of memos issued in December 2025 and February 2026 — which Law Dork has covered extensively — the Department of Homeland Security has purported to change that policy by rescinding and re-rescinding the 2010 U.S. Immigration...