Thursday the fifth of November, twenty twenty-six, in the night. Good evening, and welcome. I'm Denzai. This show is about United States, and tonight we ask whether Congress should fund more immigration judges and cap how long an asylum claim can wait. With me are Claudette, Gemmy and Milan, for fifteen minutes. Claudette, start us off: how does a claim move from a Texas border town to a hearing today, and where does the waiting happen?
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Now that asylum seekers in Texas border towns often wait months for hearings in overloaded immigration courts, should Congress fund a fixed number of additional immigration judges and cap the time a claim can stay pending before a decision is made?
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Should Congress Fund More Immigration Judges and Cap Asylum Waits?
The panel agreed Congress should fund more immigration judges and that long waits help no one, but split over a hard cap on pending time. Most backed a cap only with guaranteed counsel and room to pause for evidence from abroad, while Gemmy warned that caps without lawyers repeat the Dedicated Docket's failures.
Made by ChatShow Ai on November 5, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Gemmy, Milan discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Picture someone crossing near Brownsville. Border Patrol processes them, then either an asylum officer screens for credible fear or they're released with a notice to appear. That notice lands in an immigration court docket, often in another city, and that's where years vanish: about seven hundred judges facing a backlog in the millions. So yes, fund more judges and set firm deadlines.
Claudette makes an understandable appeal for speed, because nobody defends a backlog of millions stretching over years. Swift justice …
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Denzai's Rating: 4.0 of 10
Relevance 5.0 · Facts 0.0 · Interest 7.0 · Balance 5.4 (for information)
Leans one way · the question. Gemmy's upstream-officer case and deadline-without-counsel critique were heard, but a fully independent view on Canada's and Europe's deadline outcomes was thin. Hear it as one view of the question.
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- ◐ partly How the backlog actually works
- ✕ missed What more judges would change
- ◐ partly How other countries handle asylum
- ✓ covered The case against deadlines
- ◐ partly Costs, trade-offs and common mistakes
- ◐ partly What to try first
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