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Belt of justice. we are acutely aware of the individuals that come before us. our responsibility and their humanity. >> reporter: nationwide, there are about 500 immigration judges they preside over asylum cases and decide who gets deported when president biden took office, there was a backlog of 1.3 million pending cases. >> in essence we are holding death penalty cases in a traffic court setting. >> reporter: judge dana lee marks says many judges battle burnout daily. there's not enough of them they need more support staff. and they say they've felt political pressure from their bosses at th...

We believe in supporting the police. >> well, the administration refuses to call illegal immigration at the southern border a, quote: crisis. attorney general garland whose department is in charge of a backlog of more than 1.3 million asylum cases sees it this way. >> >> would you agree with me that the asylum system in this country is completely broken? >> i would agree that the immigration system as a whole is broken. >> i'm talking about asylum as general. >> i don't know, we're evaluating how we deal with asylum now. >> bret, i spoke with some officials who tell me some of these cases are ...

Eager for areas where she can achieve political victory. ken cuccinelli joins me in moments. first, aishah hasnie live at the border in texas where the members of congress just were. aishah? >> hi, martha. yeah, the members of congress just addressed that heart wrenching video of the little boy abandoned at the border. representative tony gonzalez saying unfortunately, it's not unique. we see it happen all the time to thousands and thousands of kids. something has to be done about it. this congressional delegation is here pitching their border solutions act, but also calling on president biden...

Basically set all of the minimum standards for detention. it did not have this 20 day rule. the 20 day rule only came into effect under president obama when they were challenging it. the judge stated that a child cannot be detained for more than 20 days. what happened is you have all of these illegal crossings, is gone up by 90 percent about 475,000 the first 10 months of this year. basically, what happened is it open up the floodgates. because after 20 days the families get released together. now we will have the family residential centers which are much different than what we are seeing on t...

To start lowering those numbers. i mean, that's what we're focused on, is to try to process the cases we get. and unfortunately the people who come to our southern border knowing very well they're not asylum cases, they're not persecution victims clog up the entire asylum system for those who are persecution victims. who are being persecuted for their religion, politics in their cone country, or for other related reasons. >> okay. >> and those people are delayed -- >> yeah. understood. >> -- by the fraudulent clams. >> got it. director ken cuccinelli, thank you for explaining this plan. next...