# Liberal court delivers immigration win for Trump as judge warns of ‘floodgates’ if law firm succeeded

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/liberal-court-delivers-immigration-win-for-trump-as-judge-warns-of-floodgates-if-law-firm-succeeded/
- Published: 2026-10-30T18:30:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T20:06:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liberal-court-delivers-immigration-win-trump-judge-warns-floodgates-law-firm-succeeded
- Topics: Art, Culture, World

## Key points

- Appeals court blocks order to open 2027 visa lottery applications.
- Judges said the suing law firm lacked standing.
- The ruling did not decide whether the government followed the law.

## Summary

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower court order requiring the State Department to open applications for the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery. The decision gives the Trump administration a procedural win, leaving the application period unopened while the case proceeds.

In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court found that Red Eagle, an immigration law firm representing lottery applicants, lacked standing to sue on its own behalf. The court said the programme was intended to encourage immigration, not generate revenue for law firms, but stressed it was not deciding whether the department had acted lawfully. The programme typically grants about 55,000 visas a year; the department had delayed applications to make changes and later paused visa issuance indefinitely after a lottery recipient was linked to the Brown University and MIT killings.

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