Texas GOP urges Biden to increase immigration judges at border.

Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales Calls for Immigration Judges at the Border

Get Your Day in Court: Gonzales Urges Biden to Send Judges to the Border

Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales has a solution to the current immigration crisis: send immigration judges to the border to quickly determine whether or not migrants have legitimate asylum claims. Gonzales believes that releasing migrants into the United States to wait years for a court date is insufficient, especially since court dates can be as far out as eight years down the road.

Gonzales appeared on CBS’s “Face The Nation” and argued that the majority of asylum seekers won’t qualify for asylum anyway. “The president should surge immigration judges to the border,” Gonzales told host Margaret Brennan. “That person should get their case heard in days, not years.”

Gonzales shared footage from an overcrowded Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility in El Paso, which he said shows the situation is worse than it’s being made out to be. “This is what ‘not that bad’ looks like,” Gonzales said.

“We can’t allow ‘not that bad’ to be the normal,” he said, adding that a migrant child died in HHS custody last week.

Gonzales said Biden should have sent judges, not troops, to the border because “nine out of ten” migrants don’t qualify for asylum.

Overcrowding at the Border

Gonzales said more than 6,000 migrants in the El Paso sector are currently in custody and that the facility he filmed is meant to hold 1,000 people – not the 3,000 he says it’s currently housing. Gonzales notes that one of the rooms was intended to hold 120 people but was holding more than 700.

His comments come after Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that allowed authorities to turn away migrants at the border based on public health grounds, ended on Thursday. According to the Border Patrol union, as of last week, CBP was holding roughly 28,000 illegal immigrants at detention facilities, a number beyond capacity, according to Reuters.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported a “record setting” 83,000 illegal immigrants crossed the Southern Border last week alone.

• Gonzales urges Biden to send immigration judges to the border to quickly determine whether or not migrants have legitimate asylum claims.
• Gonzales shared footage from an overcrowded Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility in El Paso, which he said shows the situation is worse than it’s being made out to be.
• According to the Border Patrol union, as of last week, CBP was holding roughly 28,000 illegal immigrants at detention facilities, a number beyond capacity.
• Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported a “record setting” 83,000 illegal immigrants crossed the Southern Border last week alone.

“This is America. Get your day in court.” – Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales