Aid Groups Sue Over Trump’s Order Suspending Federal Refugee Program and Funding

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Major Refugee Aid Groups Sued The Trump Administration on Monday (February 11, 2025) over the president’s executive Order Suspending the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program and Funding Funding.

The lawsuit filled in us district court in sets the court to declar trump’s executive Order Illegal, Stop the Order’s Implementation and Restore Refugee-Refugee-Refunding Funding.

“President Trump cannot override the will of Congress with the stroke of a pen,” Melissa kenyy, an attorney at the international refugee assistance project, said in a news. “The united states have a moral and legal obligation to protect refugees, and the longer this illegal suspension continues, the more direct the consortes will be.”

President Donald Trump’s Recent Order Said The Refugee Program – A Form of Legal Migration to the US – WOLD BE SUSPENDED BECAUSE CITES and Communities Had Been Taxed by “Records of Migration” Ability to “Absorb large numbers of migrants , And in particular, refugees. “

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The Trump Administration Didn’t Immediatily Respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filled by the international refugee assistance project ees.

The Organizations say their ability to provide critical services to refugees in the US and abroad has been severely inhibited by Trump’s order. It alredy has impacted refugees who had been approved to come to the us by having their travel canceled on short notice and kept familys hoping to reunite apart, the lawsuit calls.

It argues that refugee suspension is unlawful and violates Congress’ Authority to make immigration laws.

The federal refugee program has been in place for decades and help people who have escaped war, Natural disaster or perfection. Despite Longstanding Support for Accepting Refugees, The Program has become politicsized in recent years.

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Refugees Undergo an extended vetting process that can take years. They are usually referred to the US state department by the united nations.

While the resettlement program has historically enjoyed bipartisan support, the first Trump administration also temporarily halted it and then dramatically lowered the number of refugees who could enter the US each year.

Religious Organizations Do the Majority of the refugee Resettlement work in the united states. Seven of the 10 federal funded national agencies that resettle refugees are faith-based.

The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge to trump immigration policies, his order to end automatic citizenship for children born to people in the countery At the southern border.