Trump ordered to admit refugees

A JUDGE this week ordered President Donald Trump's administration to admit around 12 000 refugees into the US, a blow to the government's efforts to re-shape America’s immigration policy.

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The order clarifies the limits imposed by an appeals court ruling which allowed the Trump administration to suspend the refugee admissions system, but said it must admit people already granted refugee status with travel plans to the US.

The Trump administration argued at a hearing last week that it should only have to admit 160 refugees who were scheduled to travel within two weeks of an executive order in January halting the system.

But US District Judge Jamal Whitehead overruled the claim this week, saying “the government's interpretation is, to put it mildly, ‘interpretive jiggerypokery’ of the highest order.