With so many issues arising during the same week, from the unfurling of the Trump mugshot banner on the Department of Justice building to more murders on the high seas to the $10 billion in United States taxpayer funds being given without any lawful authority to the Trump vanity board, of which Trump will be chairman for life and eschewed by every democracy in the world, to repainting the fleet of airplanes in Trump’s favored palate to getting his stacked board to give final approval the enormous White House ballroom even though there are no final plans to the unauthorized war threatened against Iran to putatively stop its nuclear program that doesn’t exist because Trump already “obliterated” it, it’s understandable that this bit failed to make a banner headline on the front page.

At any other time, under any other president, it would have. And despite the plethora of daily outrages, it’s still worthy of recognition.

The Department of Homeland Security has decided that all refugees legally admitted to the United States of America must be re-vetted, and during the period between their return for “inspection and re-examination,” they are to be held in detention. In other words, legal immigrants will be imprisoned because Trump doesn’t trust the vetting process they went through when they were admitted as refugees.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a memo dated February 18 and ​submitted in a federal court filing, said refugees must return to government custody for “inspection and examination” a year after their admission into the United States.

“This detain-and-inspect requirement ensures that refugees are re-vetted after one year, aligns post-admission vetting with that applied to other applicants for admission, and promotes public safety,” ‌the department said in the memo.

It’s troubling enough that these refugees, already vetted before their admission into the United States, will now be required to be vetted again, this time by an administration staffed by people of politically dubious qualifications and with a purpose of denying admission to people from “shithole” countries. While DHS continues to mouth the nonsense that it is ridding the nation of the “worst of the worst,” it is instead proving that no action by the US is reliable at the whim of the next guy.

But as bad as forcing refugees, those legal immigrants MAGA pretends to accept so it can pretend everyone else is illegal, even though most are not, to suffer the indignity of re-vetting, that’s just the starting point of the problem.

Under ⁠U.S. law , refugees must apply for lawful permanent resident status one year after their arrival in the country. The new memo authorizes immigration authorities to ⁠detain individuals for the duration of the re-inspection process.

The new policy is a shift from the earlier 2010 memorandum, which stated that failure to obtain lawful permanent resident status was not a “basis” for removal from ​the ​country and not a “proper basis” for detention.

These refugees aren’t getting “caught” by ICE or CBP hiding in the shadows, but appearing as required by law for their permanent resident interviews. Green cards. They are coming in as the law requires of lawful immigrants to become residents of the United States in the lawful manner. That’s when the boom gets dropped, as they are taken into custody and put in a Trump gulag like Alligator Alcatraz, where they will remain under horrific conditions until whenever it’s decided they’ve been vetted enough. Or they aren’t the sort of person Trump wants walking the street of America, in which case they will be shipped to wherever the next plane, with or without a bedroom for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, flies.

And who are these refugees that so threaten the United States that their prior vetting was so inaccurate that they need to be imprisoned?

AfghanEvac’s president Shawn VanDiver called the directive “a reckless reversal of long-standing policy” and said it “breaks faith with people the United States lawfully admitted and promised protection.”

These are the Afghan refugees, the ones who served alongside American soldiers, thus making them the target of Taliban fury and putting their lives in almost certain jeopardy. They were promised that America will be their refuge after risking their lives to help America, and this is how they’re being repaid.

HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, said the “move will cause grave harm to thousands of people who were welcomed to the United States after ‌fleeing violence and persecution.”

Trump has already made it abundantly clear that he will sell out Ukraine to gain the love of Putin, and forsake our NATO alliance because our former European allies won’t do as he tells them. And now, he’s made clear that the promises America made to the people who help us in foreign wars are worthless and will not be honored. This might be notable for the people of Iran, as Trump considers going to war, but they should have already come to that realization when Trump told them to fight and he had their backs, then left them to be slaughtered by the Khomeini regime.