U.S. citizens and immigration groups sued Marco Rubio and the State Department in federal court to block a visa ban affecting people from 75 countries.

•⁠ ⁠The lawsuit challenges a State Department policy that suspended visa approvals, arguing it violates long-standing immigration law.

•⁠ ⁠The State Department said the policy was needed to prevent immigrants who “take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates,” a claim the lawsuit calls “unsupported and demonstrably false.”