A US federal
judge invalidated a Trump administration policy that blocked the issuance of
immigrant visas to applicants from Bangladesh and 74 nations on Friday, ruling
that the restriction exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory
authority.
US District
Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan branded the State Department’s January
directive as “patently unlawful”.
She
determined that the policy directly breached federal immigration law, which
explicitly strips the secretary of state of...