A Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Administration Immigration Policy Affecting 39 Countries

BOSTON — A national judge connected Friday struck down a Trump management argumentation enacted aft nan shooting of 2 National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enactment and participate nan country.

In a ruling harshly criticizing nan administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said nan argumentation “threw nan lives of countless immigrants surviving successful nan United States into indeterminate ineligible limbo,” and he accused nan U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring nan law.

“In enacting its latest migration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without nan reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without respect for nan reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions pinch pretextual concerns of ‘national security’ that disguise anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting power its decision-making,” he wrote. “In ineligible position that intends USCIS’s actions are contrary to rule and arbitrary and capricious.”

The policies enacted aft nan National Guard shooting past twelvemonth meant that immigrants from 39 African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries person been “categorically barred” from receiving last decisions on, among different things, their asylum, activity permit, greenish card, and citizenship applications.

“This ruling reaffirms a basal principle: nan national authorities cannot unopen down lawful migration pathways aliases discriminate against group based connected wherever they travel from,” said Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward. “These unlawful policies caused tremendous harm to families, workers, asylum seekers, and communities crossed nan state who were near successful limbo, incapable to work, entree protections, aliases move guardant pinch their lives.”