<p class="Component-root-0-2-349 p Component-p-0-2-339">A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-349 p Component-p-0-2-339">U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas stayed the termination until legal challenges by Texas and Missouri are settled but didn’t order the policy reinstated. The impact on the program wasn’t immediately clear.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-349 p Component-p-0-2-339">“It’s a common sense policy to prevent people from entering our country illegally,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted after the ruling. “Texas wins again, for now.”</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-349 p Component-p-0-2-339">The decision comes as El Paso, Texas, and other border cities&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-immigration-el-paso-d0a9ab87492fd4e9e3061ebefc6e1094" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-immigration-el-paso-d0a9ab87492fd4e9e3061ebefc6e1094">face a daily influx of migrants</a>&nbsp;that could grow larger if&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/public-health-immigration-asylum-54c11e091d464fe8d9272d607f6778f8" _mce_href="https://apnews.com/article/public-health-immigration-asylum-54c11e091d464fe8d9272d607f6778f8">separate asylum restrictions enacted under President Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;end next week as scheduled.</p> <p class="Component-root-0-2-349 p Component-p-0-2-339">Thursday’s&nbsp;<a class="paragraph-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680.178.0.pdf" _mce_href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680/gov.uscourts.txnd.346680.178.0.pdf" target="_blank">ruling</a>&nbsp;could prove to be a temporary setback for the Biden administration, which may appeal.</p>