US judge invalidates Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries
The ruling orders USCIS to resume processing asylum, work permit and citizenship cases after judges said the agency lacked authority to halt them.
- On Friday, Chief District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. struck down President Donald Trump's administration policies that unlawfully blocked immigration decisions for applicants from 39 countries, ending freezes leaving many in "indeterminate legal limbo."
- Immigrant service organizations and labor unions filed a lawsuit in March challenging policies adopted in November that placed global holds on asylum applications and immigration benefits for the 39 countries.
- McConnell wrote that the agency violated immigration laws, noting immigrants had "adhered to the legal processes that Congress had enacted" but remained "stuck waiting, for months on end, for benefit requests that USCIS refuses to adjudicate."
- "Over six months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, and without any meaningful ability to plan for their futures," the judge wrote, describing the direct human consequences.
- Skye Perryman, president of the nonprofit Forward, said the ruling "reaffirms a basic principle: The federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from.
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Judge Throws Out Trump's Halt to Immigration Processing
A Trump administration effort to effectively hit pause on swaths of the legal immigration system was tossed out Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island. In a 135-page ruling, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ordered US Citizenship and Immigration Services to resume processing asylum and immigration applications that had...
US Court Strikes Down Trump Policies Targeting Immigrants From 39 Countries
A federal judge on Friday ruled that US President Donald Trump's administration had adopted a series of unlawful policies that have barred people from 39 countries from receiving decisions on applications for asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship.
Federal judge strikes down Trump immigration policy affecting 39 countries
BOSTON — A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S.In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said the policy “threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo,” and he accused…
CAIR Welcomes Federal Court Ruling Striking Down Trump Admin’s Asylum Freeze on 39 Countries
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a federal court ruling striking down a Trump administration policy that effectively froze asylum, work permit, green card, and citizenship applications for immigrants from 39 countries, many of them Muslim-majority nations. A federal judge ruled that the policy was unlawful, arbitrary, and exceeded the authority of…
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