A US federal judge has partially blocked President Donald Trump’s latest restrictions on refugees seeking to enter the country.
The ruling by James Robart from Seattle on Saturday was the latest in a slew of immigration-related legal setbacks for Trump.
Robart said that the restrictions could not apply to refugees with “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
He demanded that American authorities resume processing and admitting so-called “follow-to-join” refugees, which would once again enable the spouse and unmarried children of a refugee already in the US to be admitted.
In October, the US announced it would resume accepting refugees after Trump’s 120-day ban expired, but some refugees, most of whom from Muslim majority countries, were still barred from coming into the US.
“Plaintiffs in both cases are refugees, who find themselves in dire circumstances, their…