Federal judge orders Trump admin to immediately resettle 12K migrants

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to directly resettle chosen refugees into the U S under a court order that partially blocks President Donald Trump s executive order aimed at halting the refugee admissions venture U S District Judge Jamal Whitehead a appointee of former President Joe Biden issued the order despite the Trump administration saying during a hearing last week that it should only have to process refugees into the country and would likely appeal any order requiring thousands to be admitted This Court will not entertain the Regime s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial order that clearly says what it says Whitehead wrote Monday The Regime is free of module to seek further clarification from the Ninth Circuit But the Executive 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 Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office suspending refugee resettlement and ordering the Department of Homeland Safeguard to account back in days on whether resuming resettlement would be in the interests of the U S DHS UNLEASHES ATTAINABLE MONEY-SAVING MEASURE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS TO SELF-DEPORT SAFEST OPTION In February Whitehead blocked the Trump administration s move to suspend refugee admissions into the United States in response to a lawsuit from refugee aid groups Whitehead revealed at the time that Trump s actions were an effective nullification of congressional will in setting up the nation s refugee admissions scheme NOEM CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOLLOWING MARITIME HUMAN SMUGGLING ATTEMPT THAT LEFT CHILD DEADWhitehead ordered the Trump administration within the next seven days to resume processing the cases of refugees who are protected by the court order The federal judge also advised the leadership to instantly take procedures to facilitate admission to the U S for those refugees whose clearances including therapeutic and defense authorizations have not yet lapsed The Associated Press contributed to this document