Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement | Trump administration

Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement | Trump administration

A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding. Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the…

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