US judge temporarily blocks Trump immigration order

Updated Feb 4, 2017 – 11.57am, first published at 11.51am

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President Donald Trump's immigration restrictions were temporarily blocked nationwide by a federal judge who said the states of Washington and Minnesota could sue claiming their residents were harmed by the ban.

The ruling came after a federal judge in Boston on Friday refused to extend a temporary ruling blocking enforcement of Trump's ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries at Boston's airport. The administration has also been sued over the order in Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles and Alexandria, Virginia.

Bloomberg