US judge strikes down Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries

WASHINGTON, Jun 6: 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.
Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, struck down, opens new tab a slate of policies that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services had adopted that he said left people from dozens of African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries in "indeterminate legal limbo."
He said the immigrants had adhered to the legal processes that Congress had enacted and USCIS had adopted by regulation, yet had been "stuck waiting, for months on end, for benefit requests that USCIS refuses to adjudicate."    �"REUTERS