A US federal judge yesterday, Monday, order to the Donald Trump government to allow 12,000 refugees to enter the US in a new judicial defeat in the US president’s efforts to suspend the entries.

At the end of February, the same judge had blocked Donald Trump’s decree ending the US refugee entrances – which was implemented for a long time – judging it to be “detrimental to the interests” of the country.

The decision issued yesterday clarifies the box other decision which was taken in April by a federal Court of Appeal, which allowed the Trump government to suspend the entry of refugees, while at the same time ordering it. to accept those who had already secured refugee status and organize their journey to the US.

The Trump government estimated that the second aspect of the decision concerned only the 160 people who predicted to travel to the US within the two weeks following the decree signed by the US president in January, which suspended the arrivals of refugees in the US.

However, a federal judge of Seattle ruled yesterday that this interpretation of the Trump government is the result of “interpretive confusion”.

If the Federal Court of Appeal “wanted to impose a two -week threshold – which would reduce the protected population from 12,000 to 160 people – would do it clearly,” he said in a decision issued yesterday by Judge Jamal Waithent.

The US has accepted refugees for decades through a program that has been one of the few ways to gain access to American citizenship.

Joe Biden’s previous government had prioritized the entry of refugees. During the financial year 2024, about 100,000 refugees had relocated to the US, the highest number in three decades, according to official data.

After returning to the White House, Donald Trump implemented a large -scale aggressive policy towards immigration, keeping his pre -election commitments.