Trump’s 75-country immigrant visa ban struck down by judge
” Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Federal District Court in Manhattan took issue with the State Department’s rationale for the policy, reversing any visa denial based solely on it – in another setback to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Fallon/AFP/Getty Images/File The Trump administration’s ban on visas for immigrants from 75 countries was struck down by a federal judge on Friday, who ruled it was “contrary to law” and outside the statutory authority of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
But Vargas said that case turned on the president’s power to decide who may enter the country, whereas the visa ban case rested on a different question: whether a visa may be issued at all.
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