The Trump administration suffered a major setback Friday after a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down a series of immigration restrictions imposed following last year’s deadly National Guard shooting, ordering the government to resume processing immigration applications that had been frozen for months.

Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services unlawfully halted adjudication of immigration benefits for applicants from 39 countries subject to Trump’s travel bans and improperly suspended asylum processing nationwide.