President Donald Trump will sign an executive order at the White House’s Oval Office on January 20, 2025 (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Only refugees closest to arriving in the US will be eligible for orders Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Partially blocks the suspension of the Trump administration, published last month US refugee enrollment programsthe court made clear in a filing Monday.
The three judge panel wrote that the previous orders only concern those who had conditionally approved as refugees by immigration officials before January 20th and arranged a trip to the United States.
The March order from the 9th Circuit Panel upheld some of the order blocking of federal judges in Washington President Donald Trump’s Day Presidential Order Suspends admissions programs for US refugees.
Trump administration I asked for clarification Regarding the Court of Appeal’s March order. The High Court had Denied some of the government’s demands Suspends previous interim injunctions in the lower court.
On Monday, a committee of the Court of Appeals said the government and refugee advocacy groups challenging Trump’s executive order were exaggerating what the panel’s March order demanded.
Rather than acknowledging all of the refugees that were approved under the condition, as the government argued, the group demanded that the government allow those who “have to complete a sorted trip to the United States,” as it said the order was applied.
“Under these definitions, the parties interpreted our carve-out widely enough to engulf the entire stay order,” the judges wrote Monday.
The judge used the example of a Kenyan refugee family who was forced to evacuate to the parking lot of the US embassy in Nairobi after their trip was suddenly cancelled as the type of people allowed to settle in the United States under the order in March.
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In line with the January 20th executive order, the administration withheld funds allocated by Congress for these services – deriving expedited legal action.
The International Refugee Assistance Project filed lawsuits on behalf of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Association, Church World Service, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, and several refugees affected by the February order.
In the order of March, Court of Appeal “We have rejected the administration’s claim to the extent that applies to individuals who have been conditionally approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services by the extent to which they apply to individuals who have been conditionally approved for refugee status.
“The interim injunction is only valid for these individuals and the government must resume processing, promoting travel to the United States and providing resettlement benefits after entry,” the judge wrote Monday.
The panel said when it issued the order in March, it “did not define conditional approval.”
“The 9th Circuit repeats that the U.S. government is ready for travel and ends the refugee limbo, who has lost their lives by halting President Trump’s refugee program,” said Melissa Keeney, senior supervisor attorney for the litigation division of International Refugee Aid Project.
“We are responsible for the government to actually deal with these refugees right away, and we will continue to defend the entire refugee program in court,” Keeney said.
