A federal judge in Seattle has agreed to block President Donald Trump’s executive order cancelling refugee resettlement.

President Donald Trump closed America’s doors to refugees worldwide through an executive order on the first day of his second term on Jan. 20. But then he issued a new order just 18 days later to make one exception: for white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Refugee admissions programs once enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Now, as Trump slashes them, few are standing in his way.

A federal district judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions Tuesday, the latest in a string of court rulings both for and against the Trump administration,

A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to halt the nation’s refugee admissions system.

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead found that President Donald Trump's order on his first day back in office likely exceeded his authority.

A federal judge in Seattle ordered the Trump administration to restart the refugee-admissions program that legally resettles people from across the globe, which the president had ordered shut down on his first day in office.

The granting of a preliminary injunction effectively requires the administration to restart the refugee admissions program that the president shut down last month.

The lawsuit, brought by a group of religious organizations and refugees, came in response to President Donald Trump’s order suspending the refugee program. The president’s authority “is not limitless,

Rev. Emillie Binja, former refugee and current pastor at Creator Lutheran Church in Oregon, recites a prayer outside the federal courthouse in Seattle after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s suspension of the U.S. refugee-resettlement program on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.

A federal judge Tuesday threw a wrench into President Donald Trump’s efforts to pause the country’s massive refugee resettlement program.