US judge blocks immigration freeze for 39 countries (opens in new tab)
U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. in Providence, Rhode Island, struck down Trump administration policies that blocked many immigrants from 39 countries from receiving final decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship applications. McConnell wrote that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had put "countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo" and found the agency's actions "contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious". The ...
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