EL PASO, Texas - A West Texas judge on Friday rejected asylum applications of two immigrants who surrendered to U.S. authorities on the border with Mexico in September to protest federal immigration policies.

Attorney David Bennion said he will suspend the order on behalf of their clients, José Alfredo Cornejo and Brandon Pena Valencia. However, he added that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, for its acronym in English) "may simply deny or ignore" the request.

One of the 25 immigrants arrested in El Paso in September was deported.

The authorities released on Tuesday 11 people group young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, but they are not citizens because they entered the country without authorization.

They are called "dreamers" in reference to the Dream Act, a law to regularize their situation in the United States.