SEATTLE: Main refugee help teams sued the Trump administration on Monday (Feb 10) over the president’s govt order suspending the federal refugee resettlement program and funding for resettlement companies.
The lawsuit filed in US District Courtroom in Seattle asks the courtroom to declare Trump’s govt order unlawful, cease the order’s implementation and restore refugee-related funding.
“President Trump can not override the desire of Congress with the stroke of a pen,” Melissa Keaney, an lawyer on the Worldwide Refugee Help Undertaking, mentioned in a information launch. “The US has an ethical and authorized obligation to guard refugees, and the longer this unlawful suspension continues, the extra dire the implications will probably be.”
President Donald Trump’s latest order mentioned the refugee program – a type of authorized migration to the US – could be suspended as a result of cities and communities had been taxed by “document ranges of migration” and didn’t have the power to “take up giant numbers of migrants, and particularly, refugees”.
The Trump administration didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by the Worldwide Refugee Help Undertaking on behalf of Church World Service, the Jewish refugee resettlement company HIAS, Lutheran Neighborhood Companies Northwest and people together with refugees.
The organisations say their capacity to supply essential companies to refugees within the US and overseas has been severely inhibited by Trump’s order. It already has impacted refugees who had been authorised to return to the US by having their journey cancelled on brief discover and stored households hoping to reunite aside, the lawsuit says.
It argues that the refugee suspension is illegal and violates Congress’ authority to make immigration legal guidelines.
