Judge Halts Trump’s Suspension of Refugee Resettlement Program

A group of refugee resettlement organizations and applicants won their bid Tuesday to stop temporarily President Donald Trump’s suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Program.

Although the president has “substantial discretion” to suspend refugee admissions, “that authority is not limitless,” Judge Jamal N. Whitehead, of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, said during a hearing Tuesday.

Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order said the US has been “inundated with record levels of migration” over the last four years, including through the USRAP. The order suspended the program until the entry of refugees “aligns with the interests of ...