The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that required federal agencies to produce documents related to the Trump Administration’s alleged “ideological screening” of immigrants and refugees at the border.

The unanimous panel decision found that some of the documents, which included terrorism screening questions in government training manuals, were shielded under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that protects materials involving law enforcement “techniques and procedures.”

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