A federal judge in the United States has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump has violated a previous court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement a condition for receiving grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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

In his earlier ruling, the judge had struck down conditions the department originally had imposed on grant awards.

At the time, 20 Democratic-led st

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