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A federal judge prevented the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday from forcing 20 states led by democrats to cooperate with the application of immigration in order to receive billions of dollars in transport subsidies.
The chief judge of the American district John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, judged that the transport service did not have the power to demand that the states cooperate with immigration and customs application to obtain transportation of transport and that the condition has violated the Constitution.
McConnell said that the administration had provided no plausible link between cooperation with the application of immigration and the end of the congress intended for funding, which is to support highways, bridges and other transport projects.
“The Congress has not authorized or granted power to the Secretary of Transport to impose conditions of application of immigration to federal dollars specifically appropriate for transport purposes,” wrote McConnell.
The judge, appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, published a preliminary injunction preventing such a condition from being imposed against the 20 states which have continued with their government subdivisions, such as cities.
The Trump administration did not respond to a request for comments. He argued that politics was at the discretion of the ministry.
The decision came in a trial brought by a group of general prosecutors of the Democratic State who argued that the administration sought to illegally hold federal funds hostage to force them to join the Hard Immigration Program of the Republican President.
They continued after the Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy on April 24 informed the states that they could lose from transportation of transport if they do not cooperate with the application of federal law, including with ice in his efforts to enforce the Immigration Act.
Since his return to functions on January 20, Trump has signed several decrees which have called to reduce federal funding to so -called sanctuaries who do not cooperate with ice, because his administration has decided to make mass deportations.
The courts of the sanctuary generally have laws and policies which limit or prevent local police from helping federal officers with civil immigration arrests.
The California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a statement praised McConnell’s decision, saying that Trump had “treated these funds – funds that go to improve our roads and keep our planes in the air – as a negotiation program”.
The 20 states are also pursuing a similar case also in the Rhode Island, which questions new conditions for applying immigration that the Department of Internal Security imposed on grant programs.
