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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge strikes down Trump’s ‘anti-immigrant’ policies blocking asylum and green card applicants

Donald Trump’s administration illegally discriminated against “countless” immigrants by categorically barring asylum seekers, green card applicants and people seeking citizenship “solely by the happenstance of their birth,” according to a federal judge.

The administration unlawfully used national security concerns that “mask anti-immigrant sentiments” to justify a sweeping set of immigration policies that have left “countless” immigrants in legal limbo, U.S. District Judge John McConnell wrote Friday.

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