Immigration Raids in Places of Worship Put on Hold by Court (1)

The Trump administration was preliminarily blocked by a federal court from conducting immigration raids in or near certain places of worship.

Religious groups showed that the administration’s new policy likely violates their free exercise rights, Judge Theodore D. Chuang said Monday for the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

The opinion is the latest to put Trump’s new immigration policies on hold. A federal judge in Seattle last month temporarily blocked the president’s birthright citizenship order and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week declined to narrow the injunction. A New Hampshire federal judge ...