Posted on 05/06/2025 4:17:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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.
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“jurisdiction” for federal judges? What a quaint idea!
No jurisdiction.
When are these idiot/ communist “judges” going to be removed ?
Find his neighborhood, put up tents and put all 12,000 of them there.
The federal government has no constitutional power to import people.
It can admit them if they show up, but can’t bring them to or into the USA.
Yes. All twelve thousand.
Anyone know Da’s Judge’s zip code? Incoming Judge!
Okay Jamal, Manhattan it is.
Send them to Martha’s Vineyard.
“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.”
Question, did Congress go beyond their powers in crafting and passing the statute? It seems any decisions regarding who may or may not enter the U.S. (regardless of claims of refugee status) is in the executive branch wheelhouse.
Anyone able to give a quick explanation of what an injunction protection refugee is? I just am too tired to look it up.
Like that’s going to happen. 🙄
Immediate SCOTUS appeal.
Making national policies from the bench, acting as super legislators with executive powers.
Why can’t we tell these un-American rogue judges to go to h311 from whence they came? It is insane.
Head don’t look white to me.
Nevertheless, that isn’t relevant. What is relevant is that this is an unlawful order from a judge trying to act way outside of his jurisdiction, as well as outside the constitution.
Tell’em to pound sand, Mr President.
Dear DISTRICT Judge jamal:
KMA
Trump
Imagine if we had judges like this in the 1940s. I’m certain there would have been an injunction bloc the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.
Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution GUARANTEES that this is not possible. The states are GUARANTEED a “Republican” form of Government in Article IV, Section 4. We the people have the ultimate power to have our will and intentions carried out by those we ELECT to office in the Legislative and Executive Branch of our federal government. If we are not satisfied by their job performance, the founders gave us ELECTIONS as a means to replacing them. THIS is what a “Republican” form of government is. Lifetime appointed Judges, including the Supreme Court, have ZERO role in telling the Legislative branch which laws to pass, and ZERO role in telling the Executive branch how to enforce those laws. That role belongs to we the people at election time. The judiciary is trying to assume this role and thus is denying we the people the “Republican” form of government GUARANTEED to us in Article IV, Section 4. It is time to arrest those perpetrating this activity and send them to GITMO for trials and execution.
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