, Feb. 11 -- Major refugee aid groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over the president's executive order suspending the federal refugee resettlement program and funding for resettlement agencies.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle asks the court to declare Trump's executive order illegal, stop the order's implementation and restore refugee-related funding.

"President Trump cannot override the will of Congress with the stroke of a pen," Melissa Keaney, an attorney at the International Refugee Assistance Project, said in a news release. "The United States has a moral and legal obligation to protect refugees, and the longer this illegal suspension continues, the more dire the consequences will be."

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