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“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,” Whitehead wrote.
“This Court will not entertain the government’s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial order that clearly says what it says,” he added.
The lawsuit had been brought by Jewish refugee non-profit HIAS, Christian group Church World Service, Lutheran Community Services Northwest and a number of individuals.
Those nonprofits said in their February lawsuit that several people who had been about to travel, having sold all their belongings in their own country, were abruptly left in limbo by Trump’s order.
Refugee resettlement had been one of the few legal routes to eventual US citizenship, and had been embraced by former president Joe Biden, who expanded eligibility for the program to include people affected by climate change.
Trump’s White House campaign was marked by vitriol about immigrants.
He has also pushed a vigorous program of deportations, with highly publicized military flights taking handcuffed people to countries in Latin America.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
