US judge invalidates Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries
Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered processing to resume after finding the freeze left immigrants in legal limbo and unlawfully blocked benefits for thousands.
- 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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The Billings GazetteFederal judge reverses immigration policies
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration adopted a series of unlawful policies that barred people from 39 countries from receiving decisions on applications for asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship.
Judge strikes down immigrant policies
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration adopted a series of unlawful policies that barred people from 39 countries from receiving decisions on applications for asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship.
A US federal judge has overturned a series of restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump's administration on legal immigration to the United States following last year's attack on a National Guardsman in Washington by an immigrant from Afghanistan.
Judge strikes down Trump’s immigration freeze on 39 nations
A federal judge on Friday ruled that U.S. 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.
On Friday, June 5, a US federal judge invalidated a series of restrictions on legal immigration imposed by the Trump administration following a fatal attack in Washington in November by an Afghan national.
Federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries
U.S. District Chief Judge said the policy “threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo”, and he accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law
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