You’ve Got Mail: America’s Broken Immigration Agency at Work

From prior experience with both, I would rather deal with the IRS than the INS (or its successors). Not that I want to deal with the IRS, just that the INS is that much worse.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59270 details our Presidents "diversity visa lottery" that enables (good hardworking people) from State sponsors of terror, such as Iran, Sudan, Cuba and Syria to gain access to our Country via our own Government. Folks from China and Brazil are not eligible.

September 1997
U S Commission on Immigration Reform
"The Commission recommends fundamental restructuring of responsibilities within the federal government to support more effective management of the core functions of the immigration system: border and interior enforcement; enforcement of immigration-related employment standards; adjudication of immigration and naturalization applications; and consolidation of administrative appeals."

Maybe we should close the door for awhile.
Assimilation is sorely lagging as well.

ALL immigration needs to cease.

All of the wanna-be Conservatives are finding that Conservatism is not easy. Now we see the RINOs come out of the woodwork though the Illegal Alien issue. The Mike Medveds, Eric Hogues and Hugh Hewitts of talk radio fame along with the RINOs exposed in our Government because of the illegal alien issue is Daunting.Republicans in their infinite wisdom can not and will not make a case for Hispanics to join us. Hispanics identify with Democrats because of terms used though out the Media such as Democratic and Democracy to describe the United States and our Government. Because Republicans have allowed these terms to be used in our Republic with out correction. Hispanics identify Democrats with Freedom, Liberty and Capitalism leaving the term Republic no where to be found. Who is to tell them different? Spanish Speaking Radio, Public Education or a Lame Stream News Media whom act as an arm of the DNC. The secret minorities will never learn that all Conservatives know. If one race is left behind they will hold all of us back. This fact will always be overlooked as long as the Media has a horse in the race and one political party must have poverty in order to hold power. Being a Conservative and fighting the good fight has never been easy and is not for everyone. Capitulating a position can have short term gains. Republican History has proven that even the Acts of Blood shed by hundreds of thousands ordered by Abe Lincoln were not enough to overcome the Democrats buying votes with the peoples money.

With any luck there will be a lot of empty buildings in WDC in about 2 years and 7 months. Let's see how the government likes 9.9% unemployment.

better the new comers to this country enter illegally,…………..

a legal immigrant is less in need of the government, hence,…………

he is one step closer to the Republican Party,……and what good is a new voter,………….

if he not going to vote Democrat.

The Dems are just trying to use this as a wedge issue. They are desperate going into November and will be looking for any and all wedge issues to try to minimize damage in November.
http://www.PoliticalCentrist.com News and views for independent voters

excellent point, DQ

I was saying that same thing this past Saturday at a political gathering. We should close the borders for a year, close them and then re-examine where immigration went wrong. Deny people access until we can figure out a real solution, not just a fence. I'm not opposed to the fence, but I see the fence almost every weekend and it's a reminder of how it's really not doing it's job. A real solution is what we need to combat immigration. NOT just more laws, though I am a huge supporter of AZ's new immigration law, I just don't think it's going to work because some how it will be corrupted. BUYcott AZ by the way, I try to do business with them on line and on weekends.

TY. question answered. Treason it is.

As an election official (majority inspector), I'm amazed at the lack of participation in voting by the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS).

Voting lists don't have Social Security numbers, they have names and addresses and birthdates. Those pieces of data are often inaccurate and not current.

What concerns me is the USCIS has no way of helping voting officials check the voting rolls for people who are not citizens at the time they vote. If they have no program for this, no one else does either. Their databases are a mess, their backlog is huge, and they can't give a simple answer if Joe Schmo at main street Springfield AK born 1/1/1901 was a citizen or not.

We need to get this information for election officials everywhere! Open the databases, and let the local police and others with authorization clean it up.

I disagree that illegal aliens are themselves the problem. The problem is a government legal system that can't validate voters or residents or hospital patients or anyone else.

If we just let that data be accessible by those who need it, there wouldn't be an issue. Hospitals could demand payment from illegal aliens, and we could keep a running tab on the costs by the alien's country of origin.

We could decline medicaid, medicare, and food stamps to illegal aliens if we just knew who they were. That's how it is supposed to work, but not how socialists want it to work.

It is slavery. That's what it is when we employ illegal aliens and force them to make inadequate wages and threaten them with deportation should they fail.

We need the list of known illegal aliens made public so we can handle voter fraud and other issues like this.

Seriously. What ever happened to the concept of actually doing your damned JOB in this country?

Smile ILLEGALS… you're onhttp://www.BorderInvasionPics.com and Obama has made sure that DHS.gov computers can't see you!

Must be about time to move to Arizona! I'd much rather be there than in Washington DC or California!

"…Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department was “considering” a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law…"

So, now our own tax dollars are being used by the government to sue those state representatives who pass laws we vote for, agree with and wholeheartedly support.

Beware, this administration is working to invalidate our voting power–

lagging? try a blatant refusal of a certain bunch from the south….

Our American government requires a moral American populace in order to work. When Americans, who occupy the positions in our government bureaucracies, compromise their moral values (by manipulating the mail counts, by spending 8 hours a day looking at porn, by working at less than 100 percent), the operation of government, and the useful effort purchased by our tax dollars, is compromised. We are wll past an "allowable" slippage. Too many people "work" for their own benefit, not for the good of the country. Our country was founded "to form a more perfect union". The labor unions (and civil service workers) must think that means them.
We are doomed by our own loss of values. And we are all responsible, for we no longer hold ourselves to any standard. Live and let live. Started in the 1960s.

You wrote: "If you’ve had problems with the USCIS feel free to post them or email them to me."

To be fair, how about if you had no problems with them?

My case: I applied, after 25 years of Resident Alien status right before the fees went up in 2007. Yep, predictably, it took a year for the process to get rolling. But once it rolled it kept going. No lines, no wait, friendly and professional people in Baltimore for fingerprinting and in Pittsburgh for the interview. No lost paperwork. In the end I had to slow them down in order to be sworn in in my home town.
My informal survey among fellow new citizens produced no complaints.A close friend made it to our ceremony two weeks after her interview and a week after submitting a missing certificate.
Perhaps my case was uncomplicated, married to a citizen for 30 years, no arrests, no delinquencies of any kind. But pretty likely the Pittsburgh office of the USCIS is well-managed and staffed by good people.
Credit where credit is due.

Right after stupidity. You first.

What tv shows are you watching? In most crime dramas these days, the criminals are always white males.

"a legal immigrant is less in need of the government"

How?

Or each other….

Our Southwest Border

STOP THE INVASION

In the last 23 years, since the 1986, Reagan, one-time amnesty,
over 27 million illegals have been apprehended,
as they crossed the border into our United States.

UNITED STATES BORDER APPREHENSIONS
(Source DHS/CBP)
1987–1,190,488——1995–1,394,554——2003—-931,557
1988–1,008,145——1996–1,649,986——2004–1,160,395
1989—-954,243——1997–1,412,953——2005–1,189,075
1990–1,169,939——1998–1,555,776——2006–1,089,902
1991–1,197,875——1999–1,579,010——2007—-876,704
1992–1,258,482——2000–1,676,438——2008—-723,825
1993–1,327,259——2001–1,266,213——2009—-556,041
1994–1,094,717——2002—-955,310——2010—-beg. 10/01/09

UNFORTUNATELY, far less than half of illegals are apprehended at the border.
Before the recent addition (over the last two years) of 10,000 Border Patrol agents,
342 miles of Pedestrian Fence, and 298.5 miles of Vehicle Barriers,
only 32 miles double-layered, it was estimated, by the border patrol agents,
that less than 1, out of 7, illegals, were apprehended at the border.
Some border patrol agents said less than 1, out of 10.

Now, they say they catch more than half of the ones they know about.
How many don't they know about.

According to the U.S. Immigration Service another 6 million illegals in our country are visa overstays.

Anchor babies are now being born at a rate of 400,000 per year

8,300,000 – the number of illegals, using invalid SS numbers,
illegally working at KNOWN places of employment.
You would expect that DHS/ICE would be all over this issue.
But only a token effort is being made.

They focus only on known criminal illegals, and fugitive illegals,
when, in most Americans minds, all illegals have broken our laws

Don't accept that there are "only" the oft-alleged 11 million illegals in our nation,
when, based on the numbers, there are arguably 30 million illegals in our United States.

Encourage Congress to hold hearings, inviting seasoned, or retired
Border Patrol agents to provide information.

Southwest Border Patrol Sector Apprehensions
(Source DHS/CBP)
In Order From the Highest Sector in Apprehensions to the Lowest
Fiscal Year————-2005———–2006———2007———2008——–2009
Tucson —————439,053——-392,074—–378,239—- 317,696—- 241,673
San Diego————126,879——-142,104—–152,460—- 162,390—- 118,721
Rio Grande Valley– 134,136——-110,528——-73,430—– 75,473—— 60,989
Laredo —————-75,268———74,840——-56,714——43,658——-40,569
El Centro————–55,725———61,465——-55,883——-40,961—— 33,521
El Paso————–122,624——–122,256——-75,464—— 30,312——-14,999
Del Rio —————-68,547———42,636—— 22,920——-20,761—— 17,082
Yuma————– –138,492——-118,549——-37,992——– 8,363——–6,951
Marfa ——————10,532———-7,520——- 5,536———5,391———6,360
Apprehensions—-1,171,386—-1,071,972—–858,638——705,005——540,865

Operation Streamline – a program that brings low-level criminal charges
against some of the illegal immigrants caught crossing parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border,
part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters.
A new 700 miles of double-layered fencing won approval on a 283-138 vote,
Voting YES were 219 Republicans and 64 Democrats.
Voting NO were 131 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 1 independent.

9/20/06 The Senate voted to move forward on the Secure Fence Act of 2006 on Wednesday.
It is a House passed measure that would authorize the construction of 700 miles of fencing
along the U.S. Mexico border.Vote Counts:
YEAs 94, NAYs 0, Not Voting 6

Why are we continuing to contend with this invasion??

MAKE ILLEGAL ENTRY A FELONY

MANDATE E-VERIFY FOR ALL EMPLOYERS, AMD ALL EMPLOYEES

END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP FOR ILLEGALS

BUILD MORE FENCE
IT'S WORKING!!

Such a paltry amount of fence, but this rather small amount of fence
helped immensely in slowing down the invasion by illegals..
We just need a lot more of it!

The Pedestrian Fence (P.F.) and Vehicle Barrier (V.B.) miles, (11/01/2009)
(Source DHS/CBP)
Apprehensions–2005—2009-BORDER -P.F.-V.B.-REDUCTION
Yuma—————-138,492—-6,951—-118—–62.8—43.6——95%
El Paso—————122,624–14,999—-210—–63.7–101.2——88%
Del Rio —————-68,547–17,082—-268——3.4—–0.0——75%
Rio Grande Valley -134,136—60,989—-316—–45.3—–0.0——55%
Laredo —————-75,268—40,569—-171——1.2—–0.2——46%
Tucson ————–439,053–241,673—-262—–71.3–138.9—–45%
El Centro————–55,725—33,521— –71—–44.0—-14.2—–40%
Marfa ——————10,532—-6,360—-510——-4.6—–0.0—–40%
San Diego————126,879-118,721—–66——46.2—–0.4——6%
Apprehensions—-1,171,386-540,865–1992—342.4–298.5—–54%

Over 40% of the drugs come across in the Tucson Sector

UNITED STATES BORDER DRUG INTERCEPTS
(Source DHS/CBP)
FYEAR—MARIJUANA (lbs)—COCAINE(lbs)—HEROIN(oz)—METH(lbs)
1999——-1,170,941————29,672————-771————-xxx
2000——-1,316,849————23,203———–1,209————-18
2001——-1,166,764————18,535———–1,491————144
2002——-1,234,329————14,334———–2,516————229
2003——-1,350,809————14,892———–3,852————356
2004——-1,347,356————14,819———–2,316————977
2005——-1,208,663————11,903———–3,206————728
2006——-1,369,602————12,885———–2,758————594
2007——-1,859,299————14,242———–1,866————342
2008——-1,642,420————-9,272————–735———– 483
2009——-2,591,215————10,907———–3,056————951
2010*——1,358,654————-5,624———–2,089————557

*FY2010 stats as of 4/1/10 (6 months)

Drug Movement Into and Within the United States http://bit.ly/cuck5W

Drug Transportation Corridors in the United States http://bit.ly/ap3WKp

The war on drugs is a forty year failure. Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization of consumption simply haven't worked. The war on drugs is an enormous waste of resources. The United States now incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average. In large part, that’s because the number of people in prison for drug offenses has risen from under 50,000 in 1980 to over half million today. Until the war on drugs with their draconian drug laws came along, our incarceration rate was roughly the same as that of other countries. Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard economist, has found that federal, state and local governments spend $44.1 billion annually enforcing drug prohibitions. We spend seven times as much on drug interdiction, policing and imprisonment as we do on treatment. It's time to treat drug addiction as healthcare problem and not a law enforcement problem. It is also high time to consider legalization, not as a panacea but as the least worst option. http://mydd.com/2010/3/1/the-invasion

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What???

It’s not an “immigration” law. You Conservatives have no mental discipline.

Each time you approach this topic and use the term “immigration,” you cede the entire ideological battlespace to your opponents.

Immigrants are those who have chosen to leave their former lands, RELINQUISH THEIR FORMER CITIZENSHIP, and seek a future for themseleves and their descendents in a new country, using their hard-earned money and resources to build a prosperous home in that new land.

Illegal aliens are not here for the future. They come because they can get across our border easier than can be done with most nations. They send billions of US dollars out of the country because they are here to make money. Sure, they seek a better life. So do all organisms. But the vast difference between immigrants and aliens is one you ignore at your peril.

Stop playing to lose.

Time to flip the switch to OFF. Not just this garbage, but the whole damned screwed up mess. Government 'job' is nothing more than 'filling a slot' for a short time at an elevated pay scale and retiring fat, dumb and happy. After all, who are we to expect them to work, too?

You are correct. The feds make a lot of money off of illegals, but I don't think its hidden, at least to those of us who are familiar with the way illegals operate today.

(thick wtih sarcasm) Oh, come on now One Vote! There's plenty of room for every countries poor to come to America, the land of the free, where everybody has a chance to become a self-made millionaire. And we can support all the poor from nations all over the world because we're the richest nation on earth!! (Sarcasm off)
It sickens me that our government supports the rights of illegals more than the rights of their own tax paying citizens. Somethings coming around the bend and it doesn't look good if you're a politician….

I agree. The handouts have to stop and they need to show that they are a productive member of society to get their next extension. That will drive most of them back home real quick.

My husband tried 3 different times to become a citizen by going to the immigration offices. Those offices are run by hispanics, who distain any non-hispanic. They refused to wait on him. Each of the 3 times he spent the entire day there waiting without being waited upon. The 3rd time, he complained and was told because he complained they just wouln't help him. He finally found a lawyer to help him. Guess what she told him? Hispanics don't have to take the citizenship test that everyone else has to.

It would not do any good. The government is going to do what they want to do whether we like it or not. What we need is an uprising against the government which everyone is afraid to do, all they do is talk about it. They are a bunch of panty waste wimps who ramble on and do nothing.

Brilliant!! There are now 13 other states that are introducing similar bills.

Thank You Arizona!

Illegals do get Social Security benefitshttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79013,00.html

It's broke because after 9/11, you brats wanted the immigration agencies to concentrate on Muslims and Islam and of course, you "tax free" spoiled rotten brats wanted it all done for free.

A legal immigrant, someone trying to become an American, has to present proof that they can provide for themselves (and their families). They have to have someone sponsor them- act as a sort of character witness. They have to prove that they can read, write, and speak English with proficiency. They have to take tests, much of the information on these natural-born Americans don't even know, and pass them.
So, for the most part, legal immigrants, are not the big drain on society that people think. Or that illegal aliens are. Of course, they have suffered the same set-backs as those born here. They may have had a good job, with good pay and bennies, and they may have been laid-off, just like their neighbors. They may have had a small business that went out of business in this economy. And now have to collect unemployment and/or welfare, just like many American citizens.
Do some "get through" the system without the requisite job and proficiency in English? I'm sure they do. But for the most part, legal immigrants want to be AMERICANS. They may honor their heritage, but they do not put it before their new country. Unlike illegal aliens, who "spit" on this country and its laws. Who demand things of this country and her citizens that they would never even dream of even asking from their countries of birth. Who refuse to renounce their country of birth, and uphold the sovereignty of the country they would like to choose. These people need to go home. There would be room for legal immigrants who want to swear allegiance to this country, and who want to put in the work required to make this country better, if the illegal aliens were sent packing.
And, maybe they could be processed if we added 16,000 jobs to the USCIS, rather than the IRS. Oh, and actually required people to do their jobs.

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"Securing the border" is the simple minded response but what does it mean? Completely militarizing the border would be very expensive (you know, Big Govt) which is exactly what this'd require. And if no one noticed, the Nat'l Guard is busy elsewhere at the moment. As long as there are businesses in the north anxious to hire cheap unskilled labor and the economy in the south remains dirt poor, the tide will not stop.

It won't.

Ever.

Prohibition never seems to work (how's that drug war working out?); Prevention usually yields far better success. On the other hand there will be costs for stemming the flow of cheap undocumented labor. Higher prices (for higher wages) and more strain on social services. (Did anyone read what happened to CO farms with their prohibition of undocumented labor? There was no one left who'd do the picking which turned into a disaster for local farmers.) All I'm advocating for is full disclosure: "Securing the borders" is large undertaking with many consequences (including many unintended). We'd need to prepare ourselves for what the end of cheap unskilled and desperate labor allows us. Let's speak the truth: Most Americans prefer their cheap produce.

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"Mass fetal murder is enormously more hideous a problem than illegal immigration; we murdered today's workers yesterday"

Shame you didn't post earlier and make the first page. I found it; hopefully, other readers will too.

Thank you for this comment.

from how i understand it, if they can afford the fees and pass the tests, it shows that they are willing to work and overcome obstacles to achieve, instead of just giving up and asking someone else to do everything for them. we need more citizens with this sort of spirit and drive.

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That use to be true,illegals doiny the work Some would not do, But now they are taking jobs from people who have worked all their lives.It seems to me No One in government has any brains or sense to realize this is one reason the economy is so bad, No work No money. I wish I could move to arizona No one else is trying to do anything. And the people boycotting them should let all the illegals move in with them. Ithink each state should pass this law

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File a lawsuit against Holder and DOJ for Malfeasance and nonfeasance in office.

Great ! Holder hasn't read the law ! but he doesn't mind talking about it ! ! ! Too incredible ! Total loss of credibility for this administration!

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