Federal agencies that pulled funding for a group of refugee organizations in response to President Donald Trump’s order to suspend a key resettlement program went beyond their statutory authority, a federal judge said.
A nationwide preliminary injunction is warranted since the refugee resettlement program “functions as an integrated whole, with interconnected processes spanning international borders and domestic agencies,” Judge Jamal N. Whitehead of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington wrote in a Feb. 28 order, which outlined the details of a preliminary injunction he granted on Feb. 25.
The plaintiffs—which include individual refugee applicants and ...
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