US Asked to Update Status of Efforts to Restart Refugee Program

The Trump administration was ordered by a federal court to report its efforts to restart refugee settlement programs after a judge blocked an executive order that suspended their funding.

The US must provide a description of the steps it’s taken to restart overseas adjudications; to facilitate approved refugees’ travel to the US; to insure that the refugees receive settlement support upon arrival in the US; and, to reimburse private organizations for funds they spent under agreements with the government to help settle the refugees. Judge Jamal N. Whitehead of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington gave ...