A federal judge in San Francisco is poised to extend an injunction blocking the Trump administration rule barring asylum for migrants crossing the southern border outside of designated ports of entry.

Judge Jon Tigar, who last month issued a temporary restraining order blocking the rules, noted at a hearing Wednesday morning that his ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California had already been reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit largely upheld Tigar’s ruling in an opinion by Judge Jay Bybee, which called the move an “end run around Congress.”

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