The federal government has barred a Texas immigration legal aid provider from giving “know your rights” presentations to asylum seekers in El Paso and won’t fully comply with an open-records request for details on the policy, alleged a new federal lawsuit.

The nonprofit Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc. on Thursday sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, asking a judge to force the agency to process its July 1 Freedom of Information Act Request, which has been pending for seven weeks. The nonprofit’s lawsuit said that because the Trump administration since March has forced asylum seekers to stay in Mexico as the U.S. immigration courts process their claims, lawyers have faced severe hardships in representing immigrants.

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