A group of American citizens, immigration nonprofits and legal organizations on Monday sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department, asking a judge to block a visa ban that they said attempted to “eviscerate decades of settled immigration law.”

The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, is the first major attempt to stop the State Department policy announced and implemented last month that suspended the approval of visas for people from 75 countries. More than 85 percent of the countries are non-European and have significant nonwhite populations.

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The State Department policy, which was announced on Jan. 14 and went into effect the following week, is the latest in a string of policies stretching back to the first Trump administration in which President Trump has sought to restrict immigration from countries that he and other top officials have cast as undesirable.

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{snip} The State Department said it was meant to ensure that immigrants from “high-risk countries do not utilize welfare in the United States.” Experts have said that the policy would block close to half of all legal immigration.

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The suit asks a judge to find that the ban is unlawful and to set it aside. It argues, “Congress has never authorized categorical bans, wealth tests or nationality-based presumptions regarding public charge risk.”

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Along with the blanket ban on visas, the administration has again attempted to broaden the definition of “public charge,” which the lawsuit is also challenging.

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