The International Refugee Assistance Project, which two years ago filed a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban involving seven predominately Muslim countries, is seeking legal action over a new White House executive order limiting the number of refugees being admitted into the United States.
Last week, Trump announced a new refugee resettlement ceiling of 18,000 for 2019, a little more than half of the 30,000 refugees that were resettled last year and significantly less than the 85,000 refugees that were resettled in the final fiscal year of the Obama administration—the highest number admitted under his tenure.
Trump’s executive order shifts authority to accept refugees from the federal government to state and local jurisdictions, a move that resettlement agencies maintain will lead to confusion and possible discrimination.
“Under this new policy, a governor or locality may block refugees from being resettled in their jurisdictions even if a community of people stands ready to welcome them, even if family members have been awaiting their arrivals, even if resources and opportunities available make it the best place for those refugees to rebuild their lives, and even when the desire to keep them out is based on where they are from, the color of their skin, or how they pray,” the complaint reads.
IRAP filed…
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