The U.S. government must let some 12,000 refugees into the United States, a federal judge ruled on May 5.
“The Government’s obligation to process, admit, and provide statutorily mandated resettlement support services to the Injunction-Protected Refugees is immediate,” U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead wrote in the 14-page decision.
The judge in February blocked government officials from implementing an executive order from the president that suspended the entry of refugees into the country.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in March entered an emergency injunction against Whitehead’s order, apart from refugees who had been conditionally approved before President Donald Trump entered office on Jan. 20….