S3326-119

In Committee

Temporary Immigration Judge Integrity Act

119th Congress Introduced Dec 3, 2025

Summary

What This Bill Does

Authorizes temporary immigration judges with specified experience requirements, training, oversight, and service limits.

Who Benefits and How

The immigration court system gains a temporary staffing tool that could increase adjudication capacity when used with experienced personnel.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Department of Justice must manage training, oversight, caseload assignment, and service limits for temporary immigration judges.

Key Provisions

  • Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint temporary immigration judges from specified pools of experienced adjudicators and attorneys.
  • Gives temporary judges standard immigration judge authority over assigned cases.
  • Requires management, performance oversight, training, and service-term limits, with limited training exemptions for recent former judges.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

Authorizes temporary immigration judges with specified experience requirements, training, oversight, and service limits.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

Authorizes temporary immigration judges with specified experience requirements, training, oversight, and service limits.

Policy Domains

Immigration Government Operations

Main Provisions

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Immigration court administrators needing temporary capacity
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Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Department of Justice and immigration court administrators
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Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 3, 2025

Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Booker, …

Dec 3, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Dec 3, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Government
1 mention across 1 clause
-1 negative

Executive Office for Immigration Review

1/3
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"the attorney general"
→ Attorney General

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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