US judge strikes down Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries

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Source: Reuters

US judge strikes down Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 countries

By Nate Raymond
June 5, 2026 10:48 AM EDT Updated 14 mins ago


Muslim migrants stranded after U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled all U.S. asylum appointments for migrants waiting in Mexico are seen at the Assabil shelter, the only such refuge in Mexico specifically for Muslim migrants, in Tijuana, Mexico January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes/File Photo

Summary
* Judge says USCIS policies left immigrants in legal limbo without authority
* Ruling came in lawsuit by immigrant service organizations and labor unions
* Trump adopted policies after shooting of two National Guard members

June 5 (Reuters) - 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.

Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, struck down a slate of policies that the U.S. 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."

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-invalidates-trump-policies-targeting-immigrants-39-countries-2026-06-05/

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1. Ketchup bottles must be flying

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2. A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries

A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries

The Associated Press
June 5, 2026, 2:44 PM

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S. ... In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. 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.

“In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of ‘national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” he wrote. “In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: the federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represented the plaintiffs in the case. “These unlawful policies caused enormous harm to families, workers, asylum-seekers, and communities across the country who were left in limbo, unable to work, access protections, or move forward with their lives.”

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