A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump’s plan to crack down on asylum claims overstepped his authority.

Immigrant rights groups filed a lawsuit over Trump’s January declaration of an “invasion” at the southern border, arguing that the administration unlawfully overriding immigration and asylum procedures set by the Immigration and Nationality Act., or INA.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled this week that the Constitution does not “grant the president or his delegees authority to adopt an alternative immigration system” despite Trump’s proclamation, and determined that the president does not have “the unilateral authority to limit the rights of aliens present in the United States to apply for asylum.”

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