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Respond to of 1583560 Federal judge allows Trump administration rule restricting asylum access to continue Spencer Hsu 1 hr ago Disney settles long-running 'Home Improvement' lawsuit How much is a view worth in Manhattan? Click to expand Replay Video UP NEXT 1 Cancel 00:07 02:20 United States (English) SETTINGS OFF HQ HD HQ SD LO Ad 00:00 - up next: "Why Trump is targeting asylum seekers" Why Trump is targeting asylum seekers Why Trump is targeting asylum seekers The Washington Post See more videos SHARE SHARE TWEET SHARE EMAIL What to watch next Why Trump is targeting asylum seekers The Washington Post2:20 Mueller testifies, protests in Puerto Rico, warm weather in Europe: World in Photos, July 24 ABC News1:38 Mueller hearing both a tragedy and disaster, former Independent Counsel Ken Starr says FOX News0:36 Mueller clarifies answer he gave about OLC CNN0:51 Mueller refutes Trump claim that probe was a "witch hunt" CBS News1:03 Mueller clarifies testimony on indicting a president NBC News1:34 Mueller: My investigation "is not a witch hunt" MSNBC4:45 Mueller on his investigation of Trump and Russian interference: ‘It is not a witch hunt’ The Washington Post1:11 Video captures bear dumpster heist Associated Press1:02 Mueller corrects testimony on Trump indictment decision Reuters0:43 Can criminal charges be filed against a sitting U.S. president? USA TODAY1:02 Who is Boris Johnson? ABC News1:06 Mueller calls Russian efforts to interfere with 2016 presidential election a serious challenge to democracy FOX News4:54 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'I am very much alive' CNN0:54 Iowa man used his fortune to send 33 strangers to college CBS News3:19 Mueller: Russia was 'absolutely' trying to impact our election NBC News3:17 The Newsstand USA TODAYFree UP NEXT President Trump’s move to sharply cut asylum requests by Central Americans and others fleeing persecution cleared its first legal hurdle Wednesday, as a federal judge said migrant advocacy groups failed to quantify how their legal services would be harmed by the change. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington, D.C., denied a request by the groups to block the 10-day-old rule while their lawsuit proceeds. A second federal judge in San Francisco will weigh a similar challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and civil rights groups at a hearing later Wednesday. The cases present the first court tests of the new rule, announced July 15, which bars migrants from applying for asylum if they passed through any other country en route to the U.S.-Mexico border and failed to seek protection first in that country. The change imposes the heaviest burden on people from Central American countries, who constitute the vast majority of asylum seekers. Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington Post In a bench ruling Wednesday, Kelly said he did not discount the impact on asylum seekers who are turned away or deported under the change, but said two nonprofit plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit — the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition of Washington and the Texas-based Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services — had failed to establish that their organizations would suffer “certain, immediate and great harm” to warrant halting the new measure. Kelly said that while the groups argued they are being “irreparably harmed” by the rule because it forces them to serve fewer individuals, families and children, they had failed to show how many of their clients are subject to the change or who could face deportation in the two to four weeks a restraining order would last. “There is just nothing in the record to suggest how many individuals, if any, fall into that category,” Kelly said. “Plaintiffs have not shown the likelihood of irreparable harm by the standard required and the temporary restraining order