More than 200 would-be immigrants from about 70 countries who were winners in the U.S. government’s Diversity Visa lottery programme and relatives have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s recent executive order suspending immigration until next year.

“The plaintiffs in the case followed the rules and did everything they were supposed to do.

”They had planned to build a new life in the United States of America,” the lawyer Curtis Lee Morrison, based in Los Angeles, told el Nuevo Herald.

The federal lawsuit was filed in the District of Columbia and claims that the Trump administration has repeatedly attacked the Diversity Visa programme, created by Congress in 1990 with the purpose of facilitating immigration from countries that are underrepresented in the demographics of the U.S.

The executive order, enacted in June, prevents the winners of the Diversity Visa Giveaway, just over 50,000 people, from completing the process of their immigrant visa application.

The State Department has said it will not make an exception for immigrants, who must complete their application before the end of September.

Trump has said the order seeks to protect the U.S. job market at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has triggered unemployment and an economic recession is feared.

But the lawyers and almost 500 plaintiffs – including the visa winners and relatives – disagree.

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Source:https://lifeandtimesnews.com/diversity-visa-lottery-winners-sue-trump-ban/

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