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Transcripts For KQED PBS NewsHour Weekend 20151025

Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. Brangham good evening and thanks for joining us. Im william brangham, Hari Sreenivasan is on assignment. Hurricane patricia has toppled trees and battered buildings, but has caused much less damage than expected. The storm, which briefly rated as the strongest hurricane on record in the western hemisphere, with 200mph winds while over the pacific ocean, has been downgraded to a tropical depression with winds of only 35mph. Patricia weakened as it made landfall on Mexicos Pacific coast last night and largely spared the cities ....

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A record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts

Immigration courts are buckling under an unprecedented 3 million pending cases, most of them newly arrived asylum-seekers. The number of migrants trying to fight their deportation in front of U.S. judges has grown by 50% in less than a year. Judges, attorneys and migrant advocates worry that’s rendering an already strained system unworkable, as it often takes several years to grant asylum-seekers a new stable life and to deport those with no right to remain in the country. In Miami, with the largest backlog, so many migrants seek help navigating the complex legal system that Catholic Legal Services has had to pivot to teaching them how to self-petition and represent themselves before judges.

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