A group of American citizens, immigration non-profits and legal organisations on Monday sued US secretary of state Marco Rubio and the state department, asking a judge to block a visa ban that they said attempted to “eviscerate decades of settled immigration law”.
The suit, filed in federal court in New York City’s Manhattan borough, is the first major attempt to stop the state department policy announced and implemented last month that suspended the approval of visas for people from 75 countries. More than 85 per cent of the countries are non-European and have significant non-white populations.
The state department said in a social media post last month that the policy, which it has characterised as a pause, was necessary to prevent migration of those who “take welfare from t
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