Federal judge upholds Trump asylum restrictions

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington, D.C., upheld on Wednesday asylum restrictions imposed by President Trump and his administration.

The decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by two nonprofit immigrant advocacy groups that considered Trump’s new rules to greatly block aide to refugees fleeing persecution. An attorney for the plaintiffs asserted that the rule “radically rewrites” current U.S. asylum law, but Kelly declined to halt the Trump administration’s move.