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A federal judge directed the Trump administration to restore the legal status of migrants allowed into the U.S. under a now-defunct Biden administration program for asylum-seekers who arrived at the southern border.

U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs voided the Trump administration's decision to end the immigration parole status of migrants who entered the country under the Biden-era CBP Home policy, finding that the move violated procedures outlined in U.S. law. That program relied on a phone app that the second Trump administration has since repurposed and renamed as CBP Home to facilitate self-deportations of those in the U.S. illegally.

More than 900,000 migrants from countries across the globe were allowed into the U.S. at official ports of entry along the southern border under the CBP One system. It's unclear how many will benefit from the ruling since some may have been deported already or gained another lawful status.

The Justice Department is likely to appeal the ruling.

At the time, the Biden administration argued the CBP One program reduced illegal immigration by giving would-be border crossers the chance to enter the U.S. with the government's permission.

But Trump administration officials have argued that the Biden administration did not have authority to create such a program and that it violated U.S. immigration law by allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the country outside of the traditional legal immigration system.