Refugee aid groups say the Trump administration is trying to provide the court decision

By Gene Johnson, The Associated Press

Seattle (AP) – refugee aid groups said in a federal court that submitted on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration seems to try to bypass a decision this week that blocked his efforts to suspend the refugee admission program.

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 Trump’s actions have risen to an “effective cancellation of the will of Congress”, and from the bench, he granted the request of aid groups for a preliminary order that blocks Trump’s Executive Order. Suspension of refugee relocation program. He promised a written decision in the following days.

But Wednesday, help groups including The world service of the church And the Hias Refugee Refugee Refugee Organization received notifications that their “cooperation agreements” with the State Department were 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’s decision.

“The defendants continue to implement their Defund of Usrap and an emergency hearing is required to ensure that the defendants are not allowed to evade the decision of the bank of this court and the written order of the future 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.

Notifications indicated that the cooperation agreements with the relocation agencies have been ceased “for US Government’s convenience in accordance with a US Directive Secretary of State Marco Rubiofor 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 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.