HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) -- In a change to recent trends, U.S. immigration courts are asking for more in-person hearings where migrant asylum-seekers face the potential for being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, immigration lawyer Claudia Galan says.

Galan joins South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez in the latest edition of Border Report Live where she weighs in on lawyers from the Army Reserve and National Guard who have been tapped as U.S. immigration judges, and how the current government shutdown is affecting immigration court proceedings.

Training is to begin Monday for over 100 Judge Advocate General (JAG) officers, or military lawyers, who will go through a six-week course before taking the bench to oversee immigration cases.

Galan

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