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华盛顿，8月21日（路透社）—— 美国一名法官周五叫停了特朗普政府一项暂停向75个国家的申请人发放移民签证的政策，称该政策超出了国务卿马尔科·卢比奥的法定权限。
曼哈顿的美国地区法官珍妮特·巴尔加斯表示，国务院今年1月公布的这项政策“明显违法”，违反了联邦移民法，该法律明确剥夺了国务卿对领事官员处理移民签证事务的管辖权。
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“这项政策基于申请人的国籍绝对禁止发放移民签证，直接违背了这一法定框架，”她写道。
国务院今年1月同时生效的暂停政策影响了来自以下国家的申请人：包括巴西、哥伦比亚和乌拉圭在内的拉美国家；波斯尼亚和阿尔巴尼亚等巴尔干国家；巴基斯坦和孟加拉国等南亚国家；以及非洲、中东和加勒比地区的众多国家。
国务院称，这些国家的申请人“极有可能成为公共负担，并依赖美国地方、州和联邦政府的资源”。该部门未立即回应置评请求。
巴尔加斯是民主党前总统乔·拜登任命的法官，她在移民权利组织天主教法律移民网络、非洲社区联合会，以及移民签证申请人和为指定国家亲属担保移民签证的美国公民提起的诉讼中作出了上述裁决。
唐纳德·特朗普总统一直在推行激进的移民打击政策，他称此举旨在改善国内安全。
权利组织表示，这场打击行动违反了言论自由和正当程序权利，营造了不安全的环境，对少数族裔尤为如此，他们担忧会遭遇种族 profiling。
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US judge strikes down policy suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 nations
2026-08-22T01:28:10.686Z / Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday
struck down, opens new tab a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan said the policy that the State Department announced in January was “patently unlawful” and ran afoul of federal immigration law, which explicitly stripped the secretary of state of authority over consular officers’ processing of immigrant visas.
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“The Policy, which categorically prohibits the issuance of immigrant visas based upon the nationality of the applicant, represents a direct abrogation of this statutory scheme,” she wrote.
The State Department’s suspension that also took effect in January impacted applicants from Latin American countries including Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay; Balkan nations such as Bosnia and Albania; South Asian countries Pakistan and Bangladesh; and those from many nations in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean.
The State Department said applicants from those countries were “at a high risk for becoming a public charge and recourse to local, state and federal government resources in the United States.” The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
Vargas, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by immigrant rights groups Catholic Legal Immigration Network and African Communities Together along with applicants for immigrant visas and U.S. citizens who are sponsoring family members from the designated countries for immigrant visas.
President Donald Trump has pursued an aggressive immigration crackdown that he says is aimed at improving domestic security.
Rights groups say the crackdown has violated free speech and due process rights and has created an unsafe environment, particularly for ethnic minorities, who have raised concerns about racial profiling.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Nate Raymond; Editing by Saad Sayeed
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Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.
Nate Raymond reports on the federal judiciary and litigation. He can be reached at nate.raymond@thomsonreuters.com.
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