Judge blocks the Trump Order that interrupted admission to refugees – NBC New York

A federal judge in Seattle blocked the president on Tuesday “Donald Trump”The executive order was interrupted US refugee admission programwhich is arguments that the order probably exceeded the president’s authority.

“The president has a substantial discretion to suspend the admission to refugees. But this authority is not unlimited, “said US district judge, Jamal Whitehead, in his decision. “He cannot ignore the detailed framework of the Congress for admission to refugees and the limits he puts on the president’s ability to suspend the same thing.”

Between stopping admission, staff redundancies at refugee Agencies and indefinite suspension of family reunification, Whitehead said that there is an “efficient cancellation of the will of Congress.” Moreover, he said, the implementation of the order “probably violates the principles of basic administrative law”.

He said that an ordinance is needed, because “our system of separate powers does not require less.”

The Department of Justice and the White House did not respond immediately to the comment applications.

The lawyers for the applicants asked the judge to take quick measures because the president command, issued on his first day back in office, They had left their customers in danger.

“Like Humpty Dumpty falling from the brick wall, there are broken pieces that will not be made up by immediate relief,” the lawyer of the applicant Deepa Alassan told the judge, adding that they do not quarrel against the order of Trump, but the challenge of the agencies that applied -o and froze the financing.

Their process claimed that the suspension of refugees, including the implementation of federal agencies, is illegal, because it violates the Congress authority to make immigration laws. He also argued that the stops of stopping of the State Department violate the “basic regulatory requirements”.

In Records in courtThe Department of Justice claimed that Trump “acts in accordance with its legal and constitutional authority to take determinations on national security and to admit the aliens.”

During the meeting, Whitehead listed several claims of the applicants, including refugees separated from their families and others being blocked in processing the limbo for months and months. “There are not these examples of textbooks that cannot be canceled with the damages with money?” he asked.

August Flentje, arguing for the Doj, asked the judge to issue a small order that only involves the applicants in this case, if he is in control of them. “It has to address only those who have done a case for an irreparable evil,” including a applicant from Iraq, “said Fableje.

The applicants have argued that a “complete order is the only way to remedy the proven irreparable faces of the applicants.”

Whitehead said that a detailed written order will be future.

costume It was brought by community groups and a series of refugees who have been affected by order, including people from Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of the plaintiffs, identified only as Pecto in the complaint, is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was scheduled to come to the US less than 48 hours from Trump’s order. He “was scheduled to travel on January 22 with his wife and child and sold all the family goods and gave up their rental house; Then he learned that their journey was canceled, ”the trial said.

Trump command He said that the move to close the program was necessary, because the US “does not have the ability to absorb a large number of migrants and, in particular, refugees, in its communities in a way that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, which It protects security and security and this ensures proper assimilation of refugees. ”

Trump said he suspends the program of admission of refugees “until the moment in the United States of refugees aligns with the interests of the United States.”

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