{"id":686332,"date":"2026-06-05T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:59:08","slug":"us-judge-rules-against-trump-policies-targeting-immigrants-from-39-travel-ban-countries-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686332\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge rules against Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 travel-ban countries | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel-ban<\/a> countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship applications, a US federal judge ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n

The decision came on the same day that the US Senate voted to pass<\/a> legislation to fund Donald Trump\u2019s controversial immigration crackdown<\/p>\n

Chief US district judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had adopted a series of unlawful policies targeting people from 39 African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries.<\/p>\n

His ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by a coalition of immigrant service organizations and labor unions challenging a suite of policies adopted starting in November by USCIS, which is part of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS<\/a>), amid the US president\u2019s anti-immigration agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those measures placed a hold on processing immigration benefit applications from people in the 39 countries subject to Trump\u2019s full or partial travel bans, which he has justified on vetting and security grounds. Green cards grant foreign nationals permanent resident status in the US.<\/p>\n

The DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

McConnell, who was appointed by Barack Obama, said those policies \u201cthrew the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge wrote: \u201cUSCIS\u2019s hold on adjudications cannot be attributed to anything that these individuals did wrong; rather, it arises solely by the happenstance of their birth.\u201c<\/p>\n

He said the immigrants at issue had adhered to the legal processes that the US Congress had enacted and USCIS had adopted by regulation, yet had been \u201cstuck waiting, for months on end, for benefit requests that USCIS refuses to adjudicate\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the rule of law has to apply to everyone equally and, as evident here, USCIS has neither \u2018followed the law\u2019 nor \u2018done things the right way\u2019,\u201d McConnell wrote, adding: \u201cIndeed, the agency has violated the very immigration laws that Congress has charged it with administering, as well as the administrative laws that govern the agency\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel-ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-686332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}