Court orders US to admit 12,000 refugees

[rangerrebew]

Court orders US to admit 12,000 refugees
2025-05-06 HKT 14:09
 
A US judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration to admit around 12,000 refugees into the country in a blow to the government's efforts to re-shape America's immigration policy.

The order on Monday clarifies the limits imposed by an appeals court ruling that allowed the Trump administration to suspend the refugee admissions system but said it must admit people already granted refugee status with travel plans to the United States.

The Trump administration argued at a hearing last week that it should only have to admit 160 refugees who were scheduled to travel within two weeks of an executive order in January halting the system.

But US District Judge Jamal Whitehead overruled the claim, saying "the government's interpretation is, to put it mildly, 'interpretive jiggerypokery' of the highest order.

"It requires not just reading between the lines" of the appeal decision "but hallucinating new text that simply is not there," Whitehead wrote in his order.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1803392-20250506.htm?spTabChangeable=0

[rangerrebew]

It seems to me, if the courts can order the government to admit refugees, the government is no longer in charge of immigration, the courts are.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Is Congress anywhere to be found?  535 worthless, useless, lazy sods.

[Bigun]

Is Congress anywhere to be found?  535 worthless, useless, lazy sods.

Well, they are almost universally members of the brotherhood of the bar, so it isn't in their interest to do anything usefully in this area.

[BobfromWB]

It seems to me, if the courts can order the government to admit refugees, the government is no longer in charge of immigration, the courts are.

Since the courts are able to overrule any government policy - domestic or foreign - then why do we need government other than to dole out free stuff and give politicians something to do?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

No need for congressional or executive branches as we are now run by unelected judges having lifetime positions.  Just like the monarchy our forefathers escaped from in Europe.

[Bigun]

No need for congressional or executive branches as we are now run by unelected judges having lifetime positions.  Just like the monarchy our forefathers escaped from in Europe.

A juristocracy rather than a republic.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Can the judge order me a pizza?

[Smokin Joe]

Can the judge order me a pizza?

I think they have people for that...

[240B]

Courts can say what they want to. Courts can issue any decree, edict, or mandatory directive.
But, the Courts have no power to enforce their dictatorial autocratic so-called 'rulings'.

It will take someone to stand up and say 'NO!', to make the courts realize they are a paper tiger.

All of these recent immigration 'rulings' are nothing more than a single person's opinion.
Federal Courts do not make Law. They do not rule the entire country, POTUS and the government, by fiat.

[Wingnut]

These new admittees will need to submit to "Due Process" before approved.  This could take months...maybe years.

[mystery-ak]

Biden-Appointed Judge Requires Trump to Resettle 12K Refugees in American Communities

John Binder 6 May 2025

A district court judge, appointed by former President Joe Biden, is requiring President Donald Trump to bring roughly 12,000 refugees to the United States in a new court order issued this week.

Judge Jamal Whitehead, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in 2023 by Biden, says Trump must admit thousands of refugees who had been approved for resettlement in the U.S. before he signed an executive order to halt the refugee resettlement program.

“This Court will not entertain the Government’s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial order that clearly says what it says,” Whitehead writes:

    The Government is free, of course, to seek further clarification from the Ninth Circuit. But the Government is not free to disobey statutory and constitutional law—and the direct orders of this Court and the Ninth Circuit—while it seeks such clarification. The Government’s obligation to process, admit, and provide statutorily mandated resettlement support services to the Injunction-Protected Refugees is immediate. Likewise, the Government’s obligation to restore funding, information, and operational support to its USRAP partners as necessary to process, admit, and provide resettlement services to these individuals is also immediate.

After taking office, Trump signed the executive order to suspend the refugee resettlement program. As expected, those contractors whose funding relies on resettling refugees in American communities sued the Trump administration to restore the program.

In February, Whitehead blocked Trump from carrying out the executive order to suspend the refugee program, even as he admitted the president holds broad authority over immigration.

“The president has substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions. But that authority is not limitless,” Whitehead wrote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/biden-appointed-judge-requires-trump-to-resettle-12k-refugees-in-american-communities/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Courts can say what they want to. Courts can issue any decree, edict, or mandatory directive.
But, the Courts have no power to enforce their dictatorial autocratic so-called 'rulings'.

It will take someone to stand up and say 'NO!', to make the courts realize they are a paper tiger.

All of these recent immigration 'rulings' are nothing more than a single person's opinion.
Federal Courts do not make Law. They do not rule the entire country, POTUS and the government, by fiat.

And that are the reasons the judges will be swept aside.  A bunch of unelected officials who have no real power to implement what they want to happen.

Unaccountable to the people who will not go along with their crap

[rangerrebew]

Since the courts are able to overrule any government policy - domestic or foreign - then why do we need government other than to dole out free stuff and give politicians something to do?

This is the plan for democrats who can't get politically what they want to destroy the Republic.