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Hawaii judge places restraining order on Trump EO involving refugee pause
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/hawaii-judge-places-restraining-order-on-trump-eo-involving-refugee-pause/

President Trump has all the authority he needs to not import any more refugees this entire year (I’m not sure that his team even knows that he has no legal obligation to bring in even 50,000!).

As of this morning, we have admitted 38,106 refugees this fiscal year (2017) via Wrapsnet. 783 refugees arrived in the ten day period from the announcement of this EO and today when the “moratorium” was to go in to effect.
I repeat! The President does not have to call it a moratorium or include it in this EO. He can simply stop processing new refugees abroad with no further explanation!

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Trump must demand that Congress back his immigration order in the April budget bill by defunding the refugee resettlement program

Horowitz: Where is Congress? Why are they not helping Trump on immigration?
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/horowitz-where-is-congress-why-are-they-not-helping-trump-on-immigration/
Here is Horowitz (emphasis mine):
Where is Congress?
Look at the House GOP’s agenda since January. It has been devoid of any substance. What other majority party with control of the White House has failed to act on a single significant issue in its first 100 days? Why are they not passing bills defending Trump’s executive order, and why are they not stripping the courts of jurisdiction over immigration?
Trump’s only major accomplishment thus far was the refugee moratorium and that is hanging by a thread thanks to the erroneous outsourcing of legislative and executive authority to the courts. It’s time for Trump to work with House conservatives to bolster his immigration agenda against the courts, instead of fighting conservatives to enshrine Obamacare into law.

Trump must demand that Congress back his immigration order in the April budget bill by defunding the refugee resettlement program and the issuance of any visas from the six countries on his list. House conservatives should also work with Trump to defund Obama’s executive amnesty.

Instead of threatening conservatives with primary challenges if they fail to betray Trump’s own election mandate, why not threaten to primary the RINOs for not backing his immigration agenda? Or is it easier to go after conservatives because they are politically expendable?
Read the whole column here and see how “rogue” judges are taking control of the immigration issue in America.
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/03/no-sovereignty-allowed-rogue-judges-give-legal-standing-to-future-hypothetical-immigrants

For more on Congress, see my tag ‘Where is Congress‘ especially on the appropriations issue!

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The judge revealed his proposal in a footnote...

From article:

If actually implemented, the judge’s plan also would be extremely expensive for Americans, because state and local communities subsidize each new immigrant with roughly $1,600 each per year for decades.

The judge revealed his proposal in a footnote in his March 15 decision where he denounced Trump’s reformist Executive Orders, which sharply curbs the inflow of refugees from war-torn Islamic countries. The judge’s footnote declared:

On February 22, 2017, Plaintiffs filed a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction of S 5(d) of the Executive Order, ECF No. 64, requesting that the Court enjoin a specific provision of the First Executive Order. With the agreement of the parties, the Court set a briefing and hearing schedule extending to March 28, 2017. The Court will resolve that Motion, which the parties have agreed should be construed to apply to the successor provision of the Second Executive Order, in accordance with the previously established schedule.

Decision
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3518169/Read-the-federal-judge-s-ruling-in-Md-on-Trump-s.pdf

reference to cost to taxpayers
Feb 19 2017
Refugees Will Cost Taxpayers an Estimated $4.1 Billion in FY 2017

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/19/refugees-will-cost-taxpayers-an-estimated-4-billion-in-fy-2017/

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President Trump has all the authority he needs to not import any more refugees this entire year (I’m not sure that his team even knows that he has no legal obligation to bring in even 50,000!).

As of this morning, we have admitted 38,106 refugees this fiscal year (2017) via Wrapsnet. 783 refugees arrived in the ten day period from the announcement of this EO and today when the “moratorium” was to go in to effect.

The President does not have to call it a moratorium or include it in this EO. He can simply stop processing new refugees abroad with no further explanation!