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New Trump Policies Bring Second Wave of Immigration Lawsuits

President Donald Trump is facing a new round of litigation that seeks to knock down his rapidly evolving policies on immigration restrictions.
Hours after of the U.S. Justice Department’s request to terminate an appeal of the ruling that ultimately killed Trump’s original travel ban, Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said he would ask a federal judge to temporarily bar the president’s latest executive order from being enforced on March 16. On Wednesday, San Francisco asked a federal judge to mothball the president’s Jan. 25 edict to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions that protect undocumented immigrants.
The latest legal push by city and state attorneys will intensify the constitutional challenges to the eight-week-old administration’s policies that have attempted to reshape how a nation of immigrants treats new ones coming from six Muslim-majority countries and across its southern border. The president’s original travel ban drew court challenges around the country, and judges in Seattle, New York and Virginia quickly blocked parts of the order.
The Trump administration, after taking more than a month to re-shape travel restrictions under the new executive order, has agreed to a court schedule for deciding Hawaii’s challenge, according to a court filing. The state won permission Wednesday to seek a new court order, which will be considered on March 15, the day before Trump’s directive takes effect.
The case will be the first attempt to halt the latest travel ban that’s been tailored to stand up to claims the temporary order discriminates on religious grounds.

‘Muslim Ban’

“The history of this executive order is rife with evidence that this has been, from start to finish, a Muslim ban," said Neal Katyal, a lawyer of Hogan Lovells in Washington who’s representing Hawaii. "President Trump may now want to not call that spade a spade, but he’s done so many times before.”
After San Francisco became the first U.S. city to sue Trump over an executive order threatening funding cuts to cities that provide a safe haven for undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Wednesday asked a judge to temporarily block the president’s directive. The city claims it may lose up to $2 billion in direct and indirect federal funding if the policy is enforced, all while it tries to cobble together a balanced budget for its fiscal year starting July 1. The city has been joined in its efforts by its Silicon Valley neighbor to the south, Santa Clara County.  
In Seattle, a 23-year-old man is facing deportation to Mexico after he was granted protected status for having entered the U.S. as a child. Daniel Ramirez Medina’s attorneys on Wednesday will argue that removal proceedings be thrown out by a federal judge since he’s one of 1.4 million undocumented immigrants with permission to stay in the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals pr

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