Federal judge orders Trump admin to immediately resettle 12K migrants

A national justice connected Monday ordered the Trump medication to instantly resettle immoderate 12,000 refugees into the U.S. nether a tribunal bid that partially blocks President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid aimed astatine halting the refugee admissions program. 

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead, a 2023 appointee of erstwhile President Joe Biden, issued the bid contempt the Trump medication saying during a proceeding past week that it should lone person to process 160 refugees into the state and would apt entreaty immoderate bid requiring thousands to beryllium admitted.

"This Court volition not entertain the Government’s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial bid that intelligibly says what it says," Whitehead wrote Monday. "The Government is free, of course, to question further clarification from the Ninth Circuit. But the Government is not escaped to disobey statutory and law instrumentality — and the nonstop orders of this Court and the Ninth Circuit — portion it seeks specified clarification." 

Trump signed an enforcement bid connected his archetypal time successful bureau suspending exile resettlement and ordering the Department of Homeland Security to study backmost successful 90 days connected whether resuming resettlement would beryllium successful the interests of the U.S.

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Signs are seen arsenic Tshishiku Henry, a erstwhile exile and Washington State Delegate for the Refugee Congress, speaks during a rally extracurricular the U.S District Court aft a national justice blocked President Donald Trump's effort to halt the nation's exile admissions system, Feb. 25, 2025, successful Seattle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)

In February, Whitehead blocked the Trump administration’s determination to suspend exile admissions into the United States successful effect to a suit from exile assistance groups.

Whitehead said astatine the clip that Trump’s actions were an "effective nullification of legislature will" successful mounting up the nation’s exile admissions program.

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Whitehead ordered the Trump medication wrong the adjacent 7 days to resume processing the cases of refugees who are protected by the tribunal order. 

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The national justice besides told the authorities to instantly instrumentality steps to facilitate admittance to the U.S. for those refugees whose clearances, including aesculapian and information authorizations, person not yet lapsed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.