Refugee Agency Sues Trump Over Racial Bias

0:00It's April 9, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Vancouver News today, local news powered by AI. A Tacoma Refugee Agency just hit the Trump administration with an amended lawsuit slamming their refugee program as straight up discriminatory for. Fast-tracking white africaners from South Africa while sidelineing everyone else. Over the past 14 months, they've admitted around 3,160 refugees with over 95% being white africaners, or other non-black minorities, leaving folks from war zones in limbo after years on wait lists. This builds on earlier fights against Trump's refugee overhaul, where he slammed the brakes on emissions right after taking office, set the lowest. Cap ever at 7,500 and carved out case-by-case exceptions, mostly for those, Afri-Conners claiming racial persecution. Agencies like Lutheran Community Services, Northwest, and affected families are fired up, adding five new plaintiffs, including an Iraqi guy named Jalal, whose brother got

1:04his travel plans canceled, and now watches Afri-Conners zip through in months while he stuck apart. The suit claims this race and origin bias violates the Constitution's equal protection rules, and with no hearing date set yet, these legal battles. Keep pushing to reopen doors for refugees truly in need.