A federal judge has sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal fo

A federal judge in Rhode Island has struck down a series of Trump administration policies that were delaying the immigration process for hundreds of thousands of applicants. CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.

Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully targeted 39 countries with immigration policies.

U.S. ⁠District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode ⁠Island, ruled that the U.S. Citizenship ⁠and Immigration Services had adopted a series of unlawful policies targeting people from 39 African,

A federal surge has more than doubled caseloads within some immigration courts nationwide. Lawyers say the tactic is causing errors and confusion.

The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging the administration's expansion of the process which allows the government to quickly expel migrants.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in March, alleging that the Trump administration is attempting to place unlawful conditions on $74 billion in federal food assistance.

U.S. District Judge Myong Joun on Friday granted a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ( USDA) new funding conditions while the legal challenge proceeds. Government attorneys had opposed the request for a preliminary injunction,