Posted on 05/30/2007 1:44:39 PM PDT by USconvoy.com
WASHINGTON -- Last June, US immigration officials were presented a plan that supporters said could help slash waiting times for green cards from nearly three years to three months and save 1 million applicants more than a third of the 45 hours they could expect to spend in government lines. It would also save about $350 million.
The response from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services: No thanks.
Leaders of the agency rejected key changes because ending huge immigration backlogs nationwide would rob it of application and renewal fees that cover 20 percent of its $1.8 billion budget, according to the plan's author, agency ombudsman Prakash Khatri.
As the nation debates whether, and how, to legalize as many as 12 million illegal immigrants, the agency that would spearhead the effort is confronting its reputation as a broken bureaucracy whose inefficiency encourages more illegal immigration and paradoxical disincentives to change.
Under the Senate's proposed immigration legislation, Citizenship and Immigration Services would vet legalization applications and perform security checks for illegal immigrants already living here -- a surge that would be as much as triple the agency's annual caseload of 5 million applications.
"If the USCIS fails once again to meet the challenge, the laws of supply and demand will overtake US immigration laws," driving workers and employers to bypass the law, said James Jay Carafano, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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ping
“ending huge immigration backlogs nationwide would rob it of application and renewal fees that cover 20 percent of its $1.8 billion budget”
interesting......wonder which side they’re on?
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