By Human Rights Watch
This 40-page document examines the detention of refugees for failure to dossier for lawful everlasting resident prestige, although US immigration officers already placed them via a radical vetting strategy on the time they have been well-known as refugees. even though just a small variety of refugees are jailed for this function, and the quantity seems to have reduced below the Obama management, the detentions remain selective and arbitrary, and for this reason a contravention of foreign human rights legislations. The record recommends altering US legislation to shut the felony loophole that permits for detaining those refugees and to provide them lawful everlasting place of dwelling whilst the USA gives you them asylum or admits them to the rustic less than its in a foreign country refugee resettlement program.
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2) Any alien who is found upon inspection and examination by an immigration officer pursuant to paragraph (1) or after a hearing before an immigration judge to be admissible (except as otherwise provided under subsection (c) of this section) as an immigrant under this chapter at the time of the alien's inspection and examination shall, notwithstanding any numerical limitation specified in this chapter, be regarded as lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of such alien's arrival into the United States.
The majority of refugees interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that before their detention, they did not know they were required to file for adjustment of status. Most refugees believed that filing for adjustment of status was optional, and were unaware of any potential legal repercussions for failure to file after one year. S. government. It appears to be arbitrary and unnecessary. The detained refugees do not pose a danger to their communities, nor are they a flight risk. Their detention separates them from spouses and children, interrupts their education, results in loss of jobs, and often re-traumatizes those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ironically, although lawful permanent resident status is a necessary step toward naturalization, in certain instances it has had the anomalous effect of stripping individuals of protections they had enjoyed as refugees. (See Smriko v. 3d 279 (3d Cir. S. law. (INA § 207(c)(4)). 70 This and the following subclauses makes the termination of refugee status the same for refugees whether they are admitted under INA section 207 or granted asylum under INA section 208 and brings the grounds of cessation and exclusion into conformity with international refugee law.