A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to sever and transfer to Georgia a lawsuit alleging deliberate denial of access to counsel for immigrants being detained while seeking asylum.

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit April 4 over immigrants detained in three locations—two in Georgia and one in Louisiana. First, Homeland Security lawyers asked to break the case up into three separate lawsuits, then move them to different courts.

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