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Federal judge blocks Trump's asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico

The temporary restraining order halts President Donald Trump’s effort to automatically deny asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin, center, talks to Nicaraguan asylum seekers while they wait for CBP agents to bring a wheelchair for one of them, on the U.S. side of the international bridge in Hidalgo on Sept. 15, 2018.

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