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The Trump medication has faced a raft of ineligible challenges arsenic it seeks to radically restrict migration to the US.
Published On 15 Jul 2025
A United States national justice has ruled that the medication of President Donald Trump cannot artifact approved refugees from entering the state nether the guise of a wider question ban.
US District Judge Jamal Whitehead ruled precocious connected Monday that Trump’s June bid barring radical from 12 countries from entering the US expressly states that it volition not halt radical from seeking exile status.
“In different words, by its plain terms, the Proclamation excludes refugees from its scope,” Whitehead wrote.
The ruling is the latest improvement successful a dizzying fig of tribunal cases challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to radically restrict immigration done a raft of policies that person stretched the limits of executive power.
The justice ordered the medication to proceed processing a radical of 80 refugees who had already been done vetting and were “presumptively protected refugees” who were nevertheless turned backmost owed to the question ban.
That prohibition applies to 12 countries and expands connected a akin effort pursued by Trump during his archetypal word successful office, erstwhile his alleged “Muslim ban” prompted wide choler and faced ineligible challenges earlier being ultimately upheld by the conservative-majority Supreme Court.
The June bid applies to countries specified arsenic Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran, and Sudan, arsenic good arsenic Haiti and Myanmar, among others.
The medication has besides revoked existing ineligible presumption for scores of radical from countries similar Afghanistan and Haiti, throwing their aboriginal successful the state into uncertainty and opening them up to the anticipation of deportations to countries that experts accidental stay mired successful conflict and unsafe conditions.
A US tribunal temporarily paused an order by the Trump medication ending Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Afghans surviving successful the US connected Monday, respective hours earlier it was acceptable to expire, extending that presumption by 1 week arsenic the tribunal deliberates connected the contented further.
Trump suspended the US exile admissions programme upon entering bureau astatine the opening of his 2nd word successful January, leaving thousands of radical who had already been cleared for admission, sometimes aft years of an arduous bureaucratic and vetting process, successful a authorities of limbo.
A fistful of refugees and advocacy groups sued, and Whitehead ruled successful February that the medication could not suspend a programme created and funded by Congress. A US Circuit tribunal enactment that determination connected clasp successful March, however, ruling that the president has wide latitude implicit the question of who whitethorn participate the country.
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