Posted on 04/19/2006 11:56:48 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
A loophole in the U.S. immigration system is allowing some citizenship applicants to go forward in the naturalization process and receive immigration benefits without complete FBI criminal background checks, according to government documents obtained by the Daily Bulletin.
If the interview happens first, applicants can sue for immigration benefits if 120 days pass and the agency has not made decisions on their applications. Immigration benefits include citizenship, asylum, lawful permanent residency, employment authorization, refugee status, family and employment-related immigration and foreign student authorization.
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This has been going on since the 1990s, and Congress has had several hearings on it, starting back when Lamar Smith was chair of the House Immigration subcommittee, but no one has ever done anything about it.
It appears nobody will ever do anything about it. Press 2 for English.
Let's not forget, in many states you can also sue for discrimination if an employer checks on your background, even with your permission.
The solution to the immigration problem is a verifiable ID system that is strictly enforced and enhanced as needed. This would quickly solve the immigration debacle without emotional, politically tricky expulsions. 90% of illegal immigrants are here for economic reasons.
Tell me about it. I just spent two lovely hours at the Social Security office because the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles apparently gave someone else a drivers license in my name, so I had to prove who I was, which involved a trip to the Social Security office. (DMV would not accept my passport as identificaiton.) Forget ever collecting what you've paid in to Social Security. I would estimate that at least 80 percent of the people there were not born in this country. Most of those were elderly immigrants accompanied by younger relatives who were hoping to sign Gramma and Grannpa up for their Social Security for immigrants (SSI). The waiting room had signs up in Spanish as well as a large poster listing the 24 other languages they offer to comunicate in with immigrants. There are ads in Spanish telling people how to apply for Food Stamps and health benefits. There must have been 50 babies there. None belonging to English-speaking parents. Whatever we've paid into Social Security is being p**sed away to people who've only just arrived and who have never contributed. It was disgusting.
And the rule is for a 120 day time limit. Based on my experience as a legal immigrant, I'll wager it's a backlog. The whole system is choked full of applications. I just got my acknowledgement receipt that my green card application has been received and I've been legally in the country for 11 years! Maybe I'll need to remember this when the interview time comes around. My big worry is the effect of amnesty for the illegals on the immigraiton processing times. Current estimates for the McCain Kenned compromise has 30 million people eligeable for a green card. It would grant not only the illegals premanent residency, but will allown them to immediately bring in their family members who are still out of the country. While that happens, a legal LPR still has to wait 10 years for his wife and kids to come legally into the country. THe whole immigration system will collapse under its own weight with illegal amnesty.
Great, bureaucracy costs us more and more and you never see it coming until you get the bill.
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I can only surmise that there are NO loopholes to protect the citizens and legal residents of this nation.
I called Wells Fargo last month to pay my mortgage....I was running late and this was the first time I had used their automated system. They really pissed me off, in forcing me to listen to all the Spanish. They didn't have the press one for English, Etc. Every message was in English and then Spanish.
These idiots should have two phone numbers....one for English and one for Spanish. Not that I like the Spanish idea.
Someone should pass a law that everything is English only. Period!
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