Nonprofit Immigration Groups Stuck With Noem’s Funds Freeze (1)

Multiple nonprofit groups that help prepare immigrants to obtain US citizenship aren’t entitled to an injunction preventing the government from cutting off their federal funding, a federal court said.

The plaintiffs either didn’t establish that the US District Court for the District of Maryland had jurisdiction over their claims, or point to any discrete agency action to support them, Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby said Thursday. For other claims, the plaintiffs seek only backward-looking relief, she said.

The plaintiffs alleged that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem froze certain grants they receive with the intent to terminate them. They received the ...