A federal judge in Seattle prevented President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop the refugee acceptance system in February 25.
This ruling came in a lawsuit filed by major refugee relief groups, which argued that Mr. Trump’s executive matter suspended the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program had undergone the creation of Congress to transport refugees to the United States.
Administration attorneys have argued that Mr. Trump’s order was good in his authority to refuse to enter the foreigners who “the recognition of the United States” would be harmful to the interests of the United States.
The American boycott judge, Jamal Whitheid, said in his decision after the hearing on February 25 that the president’s actions were a “effective cancellation of the will of Congress” in establishing a refugee acceptance program in the country.
“The president has a great appreciation authority … to suspend the acceptance of refugees,” Mr. Whiteheed told the parties. “But this power is not limited.”
The lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, August, referred to the judge that the government would consider whether it would resume the emergency.
Prosecutors include the International Refugee Assistance Project on behalf of the global service of the Church, the HIAS Refugee Resettlement Agency, North West Lutheran community, individual refugees and family members. They said that their ability to provide critical services to refugees – including those already in the United States – was severely prevented by Mr. Trump’s order.
The lawsuit said that some of the refugees who were approved to come to the United States had canceled their travel in a short notice, and the families who had awaited for years had to reunite to remain far apart.
Mr. Trump’s latest order said that the refugee program – a form of legal immigration to the United States – will be suspended because cities and societies have been imposed on them through “record levels of migration” and they did not have the ability to “absorb large numbers of immigrants and in particular , Refugees.
The Federal Refugee Program was valid for decades and helps people who fled war, natural disasters, or persecution. Despite the long -term support from both parties to accepting the refugees who have been accurately examined, the program has become a distinguished program in recent years.
Mr. Trump temporarily stopped her during his first term, then reduced the number of refugees who can enter the United States significantly every year.
Last week, a federal judge in Washington, DC, refused to prevent the actions of Mr. Trump’s administration immediately in a similar suit filed by the Catholic Bishops Conference in the United States. This issue faces another session on February 28.
This story was reported by Associated Press.
