The Trump administration has issued a sweeping new order that could lead to the arrest of tens of thousands of refugees who are lawfully in the United States but do not yet have permanent residency. A memo filed by the Department of Homeland Security ahead of a Thursday federal court hearing in Minnesota says refugees applying for green cards must return to federal custody one year after they were admitted to the U.S. for reviews of their applications. DHS "may maintain custody for the duration of the inspection and examination process," said the memo, which was filed Wednesday.

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States. The department said Wednesday it had instructed consular officers to halt immigrant visa applications from the countries affected in accordance with a broader order issued in November that tightened rules around potential immigrants who might become "public charges" in the U.S. The suspension will not apply to applicants seeking non-immigrant, or temporary tourist or business, visas. The department says it's "bringing an end to the abuse of America's immigration system." The suspension begins Jan. 21.

Investigators are trying to sort out why a former Brown University student allegedly opened fire on the campus decades after he dropped out and later gunned down an esteemed Massachusetts college professor he attended school with in Portugal in the 1990s. Authorities say Claudio Neves Valente was found dead Thursday night in New Hampshire from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators believe he opened fire in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine others, before heading to the Boston area and killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro on Monday. He was a Brown graduate student from fall 2000 until spring 2001, and he and Loureiro attended the same Portuguese academic program before that.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status. That's according to an internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press. Trump officials have been reaching deep into communities across the country to ramp up deportations and fought for the health data on immigrants from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The dataset released this week includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., which all allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to enroll in relatively new Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars.

Colleges around the country are reporting cases of international students suddenly learning their visas have been revoked. Visas can be canceled for a number of reasons, but college leaders say the government has been quietly terminating students' legal residency status with little notice to students or schools. It marks a shift from past practice and leaves students vulnerable to detention and deportation. A growing list of colleges that have announced discovering students with revoked status recently includes Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, UCLA and Ohio State University.

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect's political movement into public display. The argument previews fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — that is, wealthy members of the tech world who want more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies.

Immigration attorneys say families are in limbo after a federal judge in Texas paused a Biden administration program that would provide immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to citizenship. The order Monday night by a federal judge in Texas followed a challenge by 16 states and is led by Republican attorneys general. The program could benefit an estimated 500,000 immigrants in the country, plus about 50,000 of their children. The pause on the program will be in place for 14 days but could be extended. The Department of Homeland Security says the government will continue to take applications as it defends the program in court.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump was running for re-election, foreign-born U.S. residents were rushing to get their American citi…