PROVIDENCE – A federal judge in Rhode Island is accusing the Trump administration of violating a court ruling by continuing to tie the payment of federal disaster assistance grants to states to their cooperation with immigration enforcement.

In an order issued Tuesday, Oct. 14, Senior U.S. District Judge William E. Smith called the federal government’s effort “a ham-handed attempt to bully the states into making promises they have no obligation to make at the risk of losing critical disaster and other funding already appropriated by Congress.”

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