The court ruled the administration can stop processing applications, but must continue to provide services to refugees already resettled in the country.
A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently determined that President Donald Trump’s administration may suspend the resettlement of refugees in the U.S. The appellate court vacated a lower court’s injunction that blocked the implementation of President Trump’s executive order on the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which stopped the admission of refugees unless they “appropriately assimilate“ into society.
The majority wrote, “The panel concluded that Plaintiffs failed to make a strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their challenges to Executive Order No. 14163 as beyond the President’s statutory authority under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) and the Refugee Act.”
The court found that nothing in the program’s act required the president to process applications during the suspension of admissions. The judges did uphold the lower court’s ruling that services continue to already-admitted refugees.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For President Trump and members of his Cabinet as they seek to stem the influx of migrants and refugees into the nation.
- For federal justices and judges as they hear and rule on challenges to the administration’s policies for enforcing immigration laws.
Sources: Reuters, Breitbart
