By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration had violated his previous court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement a condition for receiving grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, wrote that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had done precisely what his Sept. 24 ruling forbade when it imposed new immigration-related conditions that states must accept before they can obtain emergency preparedness grants from FEMA.

The judge in his earlier ruling had struck down conditions the department originally imposed on grant awards that 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Colum

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