US judge blocks Trump’s ‘absurd’ visa caps for students, journalists

The last-minute freeze keeps old rules in place as legal challenge by university groups and labour unions makes its way through the courts Judge F. Dennis Saylor in Boston said the rationale for the restriction was “exceptionally weak”, and the connection between the rule and the problems it purported to address was “exceptionally attenuated”. He wrote that the US Department of Homeland Security had built the case “almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do nothing to prevent or even mitigate”.

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