Posted on 10/07/2005 5:20:48 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
Immigration officials said yesterday that every application for a green card is subject to background checks, but union officials said managers' efforts to reduce a backlog of applicants mean adjudicators cut corners and could be letting in the wrong people. "The push to reduce the backlog has compromised the integrity of the system," said Kevin Tinker, an official with the National Homeland Security Council (NHSC), a part of the American Federation of Government Employees. "The average adjudicator is not sure whether the decision he's making is the right decision. He doesn't have the time." He said he knew of several customer-service centers where adjudicators feel they are "rubber-stamping" applications in order to make performance quotas. The Washington Times reported yesterday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), the agency charged with admitting foreigners, is in disarray, with some adjudicators not being able to see some law-enforcement databases before making a decision and with employees facing thousands of charges of misconduct. An internal affairs investigator briefed some members of Congress behind closed doors on the disarray last week, said two sources familiar with the briefing. Yesterday, CIS officials said the agency's system requires adjudicators to certify that the background checks have taken place. "The crux of the issue here is we have a strict policy regarding these background checks and there is not rubber-stamping going on," said CIS spokeswoman Angelica Alfonso. "There's always room for improvement, but the issue of cutting corners and rubber-stamping does not apply when it comes to our background checks." She said all applications are put through law-enforcement checks, and those checks must be completed before a green card or other immigration benefit is granted. "USCIS maintains a strict policy requiring that all law-enforcement checks be resolved prior to granting an immigration benefit," she said.
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I think that all potential immigrants should be required to provide a reason why we should allow them to enter the country, instead of just allowing entry to the huddled masses.
But hey, I'm only an angry racist white male who has his head up his ass (when you listen to the arguments of the Indymedia crowd).
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