Things to know about governing the blocking of Trump Ban-Tlanangana’s refugee

The program of refugees, created by Congress in 1980, is a form of legal migration in the US for people displaced, natural disaster or persecution – a process that often takes years and involves significant verification

Seattle: President Donald Trump’s effort to suspend the US Refugee Refugee System after a federal judge in Seattle was blocked. US district judge Jamal Whitehead, a 2023 named President Joe Biden, found that, while the president has a wide authority about who comes to the country, he cannot cancel the law adopted by the Congress that establishes the program.

The Department of Justice indicated that he would consider a quick appeal, saying that Trump’s actions were in his authority.

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Here’s what to know about the case.

What is this process about?

Trump stopped the program of relocating the nation’s refugees as part of an executive order series that collapse on immigration, saying that the cities were taxed by “record migration levels” and could not “absorb a large number of migrants and, in especially, refugees. “

He forbade refugees from coming to the US, and the administration began to cut financing for the agencies supporting refugees.

The program of refugees, created by Congress in 1980, is a form of legal migration in the US for people traveling, natural disaster or persecution – a process that often lasts years and involves significant verification.

It is different from asylum, through which people have arrived in the US can seek permission to stay, because they are afraid of persecution in the country of origin.

Despite the long -term support from both parties to accept refugees, the program has become politicized in recent years. Trump also stopped temporarily during his first term, then dramatically dropped the number of refugees who could enter the US every year.

There are 600,000 people processed to come to the US as refugees from all over the world, according to the administration.

Groups for refugees who challenge Trump

The process filed in Seattle was introduced by individual refugees whose reinstallation efforts have been stopped, as well as major refugee aid groups.

These organizations include the International Refugee Assistance Project on behalf of the Church’s World Service, the Refugee Refugee Agency Hias and Lutheran Community Services Northwest. They say they had to dismiss personally, because the administration has frozen the financing to process the applications of over the seas, as well as for support, such as short -term rental assistance for those who are already in the US.

“I reinstalled people a few days before the inauguration, which were just interrupted by benefits,” said David Dua, CEO of Lutheran Community Services, CEO, David Dua, after hearing on Tuesday. “This means rent, help children enter school and management. It was an inhuman act. “The lawyer of the Department of Justice, August Flentje, challenged the idea that the applicants suffered some kind of” irrepara “damages that would justify a wide order to block the actions of the administration.

Most people whose trip to the US has been canceled at the last moment have already been moved to a third country where they were not in danger, he said, and the cancellation of financing for refugee aid groups has been up to a contractual dispute . The judge did not agree.

“I read the statements,” Whitehead said. “We have refugees stuck in dangerous places. I have families who sold everything they held before the trip, which was canceled. I have the spouses and children separated endlessly by the members of their family in the US, the relocation agents who have already fired hundreds of staff. “Last week, a Federal judge in Washington, DC, refused to immediately block the actions of the Trump administration in a similar process, brought by the conference of the United States Catholic bishops. This case is facing another hearing on Friday.

The judge said that the president’s authority is wide, not unlimited during Tuesday’s arguments, Fableje cited a law that allows the president to refuse the entry of foreigners whose admission to the US “would be to the detriment of the United States.”

But Whitehead has established that the president’s actions have risen to an “efficient cancellation of the will of the Congress” in establishing the program for admitting refugees in the country. He promised that he would provide a more complete reason in a written opinion in the next few days.

“The president has a substantial discretion … To suspend admission to refugees,” Whitehead told the parties. “But this authority is not unlimited.”

A call is expected

Falentje indicated that the government could submit an “emergency appeal” to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, a motion that would be taken into account. He also asked Whitehead to interrupt his decision waiting for a appeal, but Whitehead called this premature request, as he has not yet issued the written decision.

The lawyers for the plaintiffs said that Whitehead’s decision is expected to delete the way for the money to start flowing again to organizations and plaintiffs stuck abroad to book new trips to the USA, although it remained unclear if any call could complicate this.

Outside the Court of Tuesday, their organizations and supporters celebrated the decision, describing refugees as a blessing for the country.

Tshishiku Henry, an activist who works on behalf of refugees in Washington, called the presence of “the miracle of the second chances.” He and his wife reinstalled to the US in 2018, after fled the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said.

“It was a rescue line,” Henry said. “You did not give us only safety, but you gave us our future back.”