A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Wednesday that it is unconstitutional for the Trump administration to require states to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster-relief funding overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). US district judge William Smith granted summary judgment to a coalition of 20 Democratic-led states and Washington, DC, who had sued in May, arguing the administration was unlawfully conditioning billions of dollars in emergency aid on compliance with immigration actions. Smith called the policy “arbitrary and c ap ricious” and said it was coercive, ambiguous, and unrelated to the purpose of the federal grants, according to news agency AP. “Plaintiff States stand to suffer irreparable harm; the effect of the

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