The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals — which includes Arizona — has reversed a lower court’s decision that green lit refugee processing in the United States.
It’s the latest ruling in a case that began more than a year ago, after a Day 1 executive order enacted by President Donald Trump froze all refugee admissions and the funding attached to them.
Resettlement agencies filed suit on behalf of refugees who were in the final stages of resettlement and blocked from U.S. entry. A district court order sided with them last year and the ban was lifted. Mevlüde Akay Alp is a senior staff attorney with International Refugee Assistance Project, one of the groups filing suit.
“That was an incredible moment for many refugees who were on the verge of being resettled in the United States, because it required the government to re-open refugee processing,” Akay Alp said.
The new ruling reverses that order, she says, leaving over 100,000 new refugees blocked once again. A second portion of the appeals court order requires the Trump administration to keep funding services for refugees already in the United States.
The report, from Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory and the Center for Policing Equity, looks at how cities, states and counties can respond to federal actions they don’t approve of.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died Monday at Honor Health hospital in Scottsdale after complaining of a toothache in mid-February in ICE custody.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, was in the process of seeking asylum after entering the U.S. in 2024 on a humanitarian parole program established under the Biden administration.
ICE has released a 79-year-old Cuban woman from the Eloy Detention Center, after she spent nine months there. Julia Benitez suffers from dementia and was known inside the detention center as “la abuela,” or the grandmother.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested more than 20 people in a raid in Phoenix this week near 15th and Peoria avenues.
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