The ruling gives the woman more time. Her case will be transferred to an immigration court in Virginia, close to her home in Richmond.
"Thank you and have a blessed day," the woman told the judge.

The woman, speaking through a translator, asked for more time to get a lawyer. The judge denied the government's motion to dismiss her case and had the court clerk print out a new application for asylum.

To her left, an attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss her case.

Outside, her family was waiting. ICE officers nearby waited to arrest the woman if a judge approved her dismissal.

A woman whose case took place hours before this one sat inside one of the courtrooms, wearing a white sweater with her black hair pulled into a tight bun. She listened through headphones to a translation of what the judge was telling her.

They were then arrested by federal agents and escorted down six flights of stairs or taken down a freight elevator surrounded by plainclothes officers. The man in the video was one of them.

But some people have been able to get by.

New guidelines in January authorized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to make arrests at courthouses and to fast-track the removal of anyone in the country for less than two years.

Three people had their cases dismissed Wednesday morning.