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The president has substantial discretion … to suspend refugee admissions,
Whitehead told the parties
I’ve read the declarations,
Whitehead saidWe resettled people days before the inauguration that were just cut off from benefits,
said Lutheran Community Services Northwest CEO David Duea said after Tuesday’s hearingThe United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees,
Trump said in his Jan 20 order
Like Humpty Dumpty falling off the brick wall, pieces are being broken that will not be put together by immediate relief,
plaintiff attorney Deepa Alagesan told the judge, adding
It has to go to only those individuals who have made out a case for irreparable harm,
including one plaintiff from Iraq, Flentje saidAren’t these textbook examples of harms that can’t be undone with money damages?”
he askedThe defendant agencies’ implementation of the order likely violates bedrock principles of administrative law by vastly expanding the scope of the order with no reasoned explanation [and] no advance notice,
the judge said
But that authority is not limitless,
he said during a court hearing