Posted on 08/27/2025 7:57:59 AM PDT by Twotone
The Trump administration is reinstating a long-dormant practice of conducting "neighborhood checks" to vet immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship, expanding its efforts to aggressively scrutinize immigration applications, according to a government memo obtained by CBS News.
The neighborhood checks would involve on-the-ground investigations by officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that could include interviews with the neighbors and coworkers of citizenship applicants.
The government investigations would be conducted to determine if applicants satisfy the requirements for American citizenship, which include showing good moral character, adhering to the U.S. Constitution and being "well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States."
To qualify for American citizenship in the first place, applicants typically must have lived in the U.S. for three or five years as legal permanent residents. They must also not have any serious criminal records, and pass a civics and English test. The process is known as naturalization.
The Trump administration's memo upends a decades-old U.S. government policy. While the neighborhood investigations for citizenship cases are outlined in U.S. law, they can also be waived, which the U.S. government has done since 1991, government records show. Since then, the government has relied mainly on background and criminal checks by the FBI to vet citizenship applicants.
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Aggressively? No, doing the job they were and should have been doing all this time.
I’d love to see what the civics and English tests look like
and the mosques, especially.
Just sayin
The neighborhood checks would involve on-the-ground investigations by officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that could include interviews with the neighbors and coworkers of citizenship applicants.
MAGA
They do it for security clearances. So, sounds ok to me.
This will put the left wing dingbats into over drive with outrage.
In other words, what used to be the norm in this country.
i.e. performing the “basics”.
they’re a joke. I took them in 2004 when I naturalized. I had to answer 10 questions picked from a possible list of 100 which I had been given, with the answers to beforehand
Focus first on “sanctuary” cities and states.
Could also just be verifying they live at the address they put on the paperwork.
Always with the drama.
I VOTED FOR THIS
WE ALL DID
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