Trump Administration Must Admit 12,000 Refugees Into America – Judge

A Federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to admit approximately 12,000 refugees into the United States.

This delivers a legal setback to its broader efforts to reshape American immigration policy, and the world has been reacting.

The ruling clarifies a previous appeal court decision that allowed the administration to temporarily suspend the refugee admissions program, but required that individuals already granted refugee status and approved for travel to the U.S. be admitted.

During a recent court hearing, the administration stated that it was only obligated to admit 160 refugees who were scheduled to arrive within two weeks of the January executive order that halted the refugee system, however, U.S. District Judge, Jamal Whitehead firmly rejected that interpretation.

Her words, “The government’s interpretation is, to put it mildly, ‘interpretive jiggery-pokery’ of the highest order. It requires not just reading between the lines, but hallucinating new text that simply is not there.

Had the Ninth Circuit intended to impose a two-week limitation — one that would reduce the protected population from about 12,000 to 160 individuals — it would have done so explicitly. This Court will not entertain the government’s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial order that clearly says what it says.”

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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968. He became president of his father’s real-estate business in 1971 and renamed it the Trump Organization. He expanded its operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses and later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series The Apprentice. He and his businesses have been plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies.

Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City, the fourth child of Fred Trump, a Bronx-born real-estate developer whose parents were German immigrants, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, an immigrant from Scotland. Trump grew up with older siblings Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth and younger brother Robert in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, and attended the private Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade.