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A federal judge in Seattle blocked President Donald Trump鈥檚 effort to halt the nation鈥檚 refugee admissions system Tuesday.

The ruling came in a lawsuit聽聽who argued that Trump’s executive order suspending the federal refugee resettlement program ran afoul of the system Congress created for moving refugees into the U.S.

Lawyers for the administration argued that Trump鈥檚 order was well within his authority to deny entry to foreigners whose admission to the U.S. 鈥渨ould be detrimental to the interests of the United States.鈥�

“Today’s message is simple, President Trump cannot overrule the law with a stroke of a pen,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Deepa Alagesan with the International Refugee Assistance Project.

Alagesan said the administration is working to “dismantle the entire refugee resettlement infrastructure to ensure that the U.S. is not resettling refugees long into the future,” calling the聽administration’s actions “unprecedented” and “catastrophic.”

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said in his ruling after the hearing Tuesday that the president鈥檚 actions amounted to an 鈥渆ffective nullification of congressional will鈥� in setting up the nation鈥檚 refugee admissions program.

“The president has substantial discretion … to suspend refugee admissions,” Whitehead told the parties. “But that authority is not limitless.”

Seattle Deputy Mayor Greg Wong spoke to the impact of immigrants in the city.

“We recognize that our refugee and immigrant communities, they’re not just quotas,” he said. “They’re not just faceless people who live somewhere far, far away who come here. No. They are our neighbors. They’re our friends, our teachers, our small business owners, but more importantly for us, they’re all Seattleites, regardless of where they called home before they came here.”

What will happen next?

Justice Department lawyer August Flentje indicated to the judge that the government would consider whether to file an emergency appeal.

The plaintiffs include the International Refugee Assistance Project on behalf of Church World Service, the Jewish refugee resettlement agency HIAS, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, and individual refugees and family members. They said their ability to provide critical services to refugees 鈥� including those already in the U.S. 鈥� has been severely inhibited by Trump鈥檚 order.

Some refugees who had been approved to come to the U.S. had their聽聽on short notice, and families who have waited years to reunite have had to remain apart, the lawsuit said.

聽said the refugee program 鈥� a form of legal migration to the U.S. 鈥� would be suspended because cities and communities had been taxed by 鈥渞ecord levels of migration鈥� and didn鈥檛 have the ability to 鈥渁bsorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees.鈥�

The federal refugee program has been in place for decades and helps people who have escaped war, natural disaster or persecution. Despite long-standing support from both parties for accepting thoroughly vetted refugees,聽.

Trump also temporarily halted it during his first term, and then dramatically lowered the number of refugees who could enter the U.S. each year.

Last week a federal judge in Washington, D.C., refused to immediately block the Trump administration’s actions in a similar lawsuit brought by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. That case faces another hearing Friday.

Contributing: The Associated Press; James Lynch, 成人X站 Newsradio