Trump immigration policies face dual court defeats on visas and green cards

In two separate federal courtrooms this week, the machinery of American immigration law ground against the ambitions of executive power, as judges moved to shield millions of students, journalists, and immigrant families from policies the administration had framed as security and fiscal necessity. A Boston judge appointed by a Republican president found the justifications for capping student and journalist visas not merely insufficient but 'exceptionally weak,' while a coalition of twenty-two states challenged a resurrection of rules that would penalize green card seekers for accepting food an