Federal Court Blocks Trump Driven Veto Power Arrangement To States
Donald Trump’s regional policies are always under scrutiny, especially by the federal courts. This time it is mindlessness that has caught the attention of the federal judge in Greenbelt who was wondering as to how he could give state and local governments the ability to object to having refugees resettled within their borders?
Ordered in September, the executive order transfers the right to ascertain the right to stat by a refugee in the U.S. only if a state and locality consents to have them. The policy is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten refugee entry.
Rubbishing the U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte’s defense of the policy, the federal judge pointed out that the White House administration had no right to give veto power to states, in admitting people of refugee status. Messitte was a Clinton nominee and repeatedly pressed a Justice Department lawyer.
This is so because the power to make a decision of such sensitivity in nature still rests with the federal government. Three refugee resettlement organizations are already seeking a preliminary injunction to block the policy’s implementation. These include HIAS, Church World Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
The judge himself pointed out that this political propaganda does not help anyone, not even Mr. Trump. It is worth noting that Trump had made an assertion in his October campaign where flaunted his executive order to political supporters, saying in Minnesota that, “Believe me, no other president would be doing that.” That state is home to a large population of refugees from Somalia.
Trump’s move also comes as a retaliatory step against the one made by Obama in 2015, where he had accepted the flow of 10,000 Syrian refugees. The decision later bombarded as it was discovered that the controversial attacks on Paris had been done by an attacker who entered with a Syrian passport.
Since then, governors from 31 states asked the Obama administration for permission not to accept Syrian refugees to their states, which the administration denied. Indiana, under then. Mike Pence, moved to unilaterally ban Syrian refugees, but the effort was blocked by federal courts.
Ordered in September, the executive order transfers the right to ascertain the right to stat by a refugee in the U.S. only if a state and locality consents to have them. The policy is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten refugee entry.
Rubbishing the U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte’s defense of the policy, the federal judge pointed out that the White House administration had no right to give veto power to states, in admitting people of refugee status. Messitte was a Clinton nominee and repeatedly pressed a Justice Department lawyer.
This is so because the power to make a decision of such sensitivity in nature still rests with the federal government. Three refugee resettlement organizations are already seeking a preliminary injunction to block the policy’s implementation. These include HIAS, Church World Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
The judge himself pointed out that this political propaganda does not help anyone, not even Mr. Trump. It is worth noting that Trump had made an assertion in his October campaign where flaunted his executive order to political supporters, saying in Minnesota that, “Believe me, no other president would be doing that.” That state is home to a large population of refugees from Somalia.
Trump’s move also comes as a retaliatory step against the one made by Obama in 2015, where he had accepted the flow of 10,000 Syrian refugees. The decision later bombarded as it was discovered that the controversial attacks on Paris had been done by an attacker who entered with a Syrian passport.
Since then, governors from 31 states asked the Obama administration for permission not to accept Syrian refugees to their states, which the administration denied. Indiana, under then. Mike Pence, moved to unilaterally ban Syrian refugees, but the effort was blocked by federal courts.
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