The State Department trying to evade the judicial order admitting refugees, say the help groups

Seattle -The refugee aid groups declared in a federal court that filed on Thursday that President Trump’s administration seems to try to bypass a decision this week Efforts to suspend the program for admitting refugees in the country.

The US district judge, Jamal Whitehead, in Seattle, established on Tuesday that, while the president has a wide authority over those entering the country, he cannot cancel the law adopted by the Congress that instituted the program of admission of American refugees.

Whitehead, a 2023 appointed by former President Joe Biden, said that Mr. Trump’s actions were raised to an “efficient cancellation of the will of the Congress”, and from the bench, he granted the request of aid groups for a preliminary decision that blocks the executive order of Mr. Trump. Whitehead promised a written decision in the following days.

But the aid groups on Wednesday, including the World Church Service and the Hias Jewish Reset Reset, have received notifications that their “cooperation agreements” with the State Department have been canceled.

On Thursday, the groups requested Whitehead an emergency hearing to discuss the impact of termination notifications or to say clearly that its decision also applies to those newly issued notifications. The groups called the actions of the administration a “flagrant attempt” to evade the court decision.

“The defendants continue to implement their defund, and an emergency hearing is necessary to ensure that the defendants are not allowed to evade the decision of the bank of this court and the next written order designed to confuse the state of play,” the motion shows.

Whitehead has set a hearing for months.

The State Department acknowledged the receipt of an E -mail from The Associated Press about the applicants’ motion, but did not answer the questions about it. The announcements indicated that the cooperation agreements with the relocation agencies have been ceased “for the convenience of the US government in accordance with a directive of the US Secretary Marco Rubio, for aligning with the priorities of the Agency and the national interest.”

The program of refugees, created by Congress in 1980, is a form of legal migration in the US for people relocated, natural disaster or persecution – a process that often lasts years and involves significant verification. It is different from asylum, through which people who have just arrived in the US can seek permission to stay, because they fear 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. Mr. Trump also stopped temporarily during his first term and 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.

The order of Mr. Trump and the subsequent detention of the fund administration has blocked refugees who have already been approved to come to the US, forced refugee aid groups to personally dismiss and interrupt short-term assistance, such as rent, for those who have recently reinstated here, organizations said in the process.

The submission of Thursday came the next day after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block another court decision that requires it to issue billions to suspended external aid. administration Plans presented by cancellation More than 90% of the external aid contracts of the US Agency for International Development and $ 60 billion in US general assistance worldwide.

Shawn Vandiver, a Veteran of the Navy and head of #fghanevac, a coalition that supports Afghan relocation efforts, said the termination of contracts will affect Afghans who have worked closely with the US during his war in two decades in Afghanistan and are now in danger. They reinstalled to the US through the refugee program, as well as the special immigrant visa visa program.

While the special immigrant visa program is still operational, the termination of the contract eliminates the financing that was to help those who qualified to come to America and start new lives here.

“Now the Afghans are on their own to get here,” he said.

“Do not make a mistake in this regard – this is a betrayal as what we all felt in August 2021,” he said, referring to the American chaotic withdrawal under the Biden administration.