President Donald Trump’s administration had previously threatened to withhold disaster relief funds via the Federal Emergency Management Agency if a particular state declined to cooperate with its immigration agenda. After a coalition of Democratic-led states filed a federal lawsuit, a judge in Rhode Island called the Trump plan “coercive and ambiguous” and ruled it unconstitutional.
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already been under heavy criticism. Just this week, the Department of Homeland Security was forced to explain why it was accused of using a 5-year-old autistic girl as “bait” to capture a man suspected of being in the country illegally. This ruling against Trump’s mass deportation push could not have come at a more inconvenient time.
