The federal government agency that handles United States asylum requests, processes visa applications and grants citizenship is preparing to furlough most of its employees.
"I think it would be an extraordinary travesty to basically kick to the curb all of these civil servants and basically withhold their salaries in the middle of an economic crisis," said Doug Rand, a former White House policy advisor during the Obama administration, who now specializes in immigration legal services."Not to mention bringing the immigration system to a grinding halt when there's absolutely no need to do so.
U.S. immigration officers administer the oath as a swearing-in of newly naturalized United States citizens takes place in an empty parking lot in Santa Ana, Calif., July 29, 2020.deputy director, told lawmakers at the end of July that the agency was able to catch up on its backlog of 100,000 pending naturalization ceremonies delayed by the pandemic.
An analysis from the Migration Policy Institute found budget problems at USCIS -- which is almost entirely funded by the immigration application fees it collects -- were apparent well before the pandemic and likely the result of President Donald Trump's push for"extreme vetting" of applicants.
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