A Trump administration plan to give state and local authorities the power to reject refugees from being resettled in their communities is headed for court.
Three organizations that help refugees find places to live when they first arrive in the United States filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the executive order on refugee resettlement that President Trump issued in September.
“It’s cruel and shortsighted,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, one of the agencies suing to block the order. “Refugees that have been waiting to be reunited with their families for years may be forced to settle hundreds of miles away,” she said.
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