A nationwide pause of President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending funds to refugee resettlement programs should be lifted, the Department of Justice told a federal court.
The US is likely to beat the challenge to the executive order because the president has broad discretion to suspend funds to any class of immigrants, it said in a motion Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.
- Judge Jamal N. Whitehead granted the nationwide preliminary injunction Feb. 25, saying the refugee resettlement program “functions as an integrated whole, with interconnected processes spanning international borders and domestic agencies.”
- Trump’s ...
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