A judge of the District Court, appointed by former Joe Biden, demands President Donald Trump to bring approximately 12000 refugees to the United States in a new court order issued this week.
Judge Jamal Whitehead, appointed for the United States District Court for the West District of Washington in 2023 by Biden, says Trump must admit thousands of refugees who had been approved for resettlement in the United States before signing an executive order.
“This Court will not intertece the rewriting oriented to the government’s results of a court order that clearly says what it says,” Whitehead writes:
The government is free, of course, to look for more clarifications from the ninth circuit. But the government is not free to disobey the statutory and constitutional law, and the direct orders of this court and the ninth circuit, while seeking such clarification. The government’s obligation to process, admit and provide resettlement support services by legitimate order to protected refugees by court is immediate. In the same way, the government’s obligation to restore financing, information and operational support to its USRAP partners as necessary to process, admit and provide resettlement services to these people is also immediate. [Emphasis added]
After taking a position, Trump signed the executive order to suspend the refugee resettlement program. As expected, those contractors whose funds are based on resetting refugees in US communities sued the Trump administration to restore the program.
In February, Whitehead blocked Trump to carry out the executive order to suspend the refugee program, as he admitted that the president has a wide authority over immigration.
“The president has a substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions. But that authority is not unlimited,” Whitehead wrote.
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