February 11, 2020
Refugees who were in the final stages of being resettled in the United States before the Trump administration enacted new rules banning them from entering the country will have their applications processed in exchange for dropping their legal challenge to the rule.
January 30, 2018
A proposed class of refugees suing the Trump administration for banning the admission of family members of refugees already in the United States urged a Washington federal judge Monday not to halt their case, saying even if their case is moot soon, the administration has the burden to prove mootness.
January 08, 2018
A federal court in Washington state denied the Trump administration's bid to partially lift a preliminary injunction that prevented the government from indefinitely banning the admission of family members of refugees already in the United States, with the judge ruling Friday that he could not disregard Ninth Circuit precedent.
January 02, 2018
A Washington federal judge Saturday ordered immigrant advocates and a proposed class of refugees in a consolidated suit to respond this week to the federal government's bid for an emergency stay of an order preventing the Trump administration from imposing an indefinite ban on the admission of refugees' family members.
November 07, 2017
Immigrant advocates asked a Washington federal judge on Monday to bar the implementation of a Trump administration memo that would impose an indefinite ban on the admission of refugees' family members, arguing that administrative agencies do not have the authority to ban "follow-to-join" refugees.