Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has rejected Texas's lawsuit seeking a halt to federal resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state.
U.S. District Court Judge David Godbey ruled on Monday that Texas officials had failed to show a "substantial threat of irreparable injury" in the state's request for a preliminary injunction to stop further Syrian refugee resettlements.
"Because neither the Refugee Act nor the [Administrative Procedure Act] creates a cause of action for the Commission to compel advance consultation regarding the resettlement of individual Syrian refugees in Texas, the Commission is unlikely to succeed on the merits," the judge wrote.
In December 2015, Godbey, appointed by President George W. Bush, rejected the state's attempt at obtaining an emergency halt to the resettlement, denying a request for a temporary restraining order in the case.
The state filed the lawsuit against the Obama administration and a refugee resettlement nonprofit organization in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is one of more than 30 governors who had said they would stop or otherwise oppose the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states.
Since then, Texas and Alabama officials have sued the federal government.
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