"When USCIS first enacted the policies at the center of this litigation, the agency did not simply place a hold on adjudications," Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. wrote.
More fundamentally, he said, it "placed the lives of countless individuals on hold—solely by virtue of their countries of birth."
A federal court in Rhode Island set aside a Trump administration policy freezing work permits and other benefits for applicants from roughly 40 countries subject to travel bans, handing a win to immig...
