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US immigration system is on the verge of collapse due to financial problems USCIS

Since Congress was unable to agree on a new pandemic relief package, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will lay off about 30 employees on August 13, or about two-thirds of its state. Forbes.

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USCIS hoped that the aid package would help close the agency's budget deficit, but after two weeks of discussions, congressional talks fell apart as Democrats and the White House stumped each other.

The closure of the immigration system will negatively affect families, American businesses, educational and medical institutions. Immigrants who are in the process of naturalizing in the United States will not be able to complete this process in time to register to vote in the elections, DACA recipients will not be able to renew their benefits, asylum seekers will face longer delays, and businesses will not be able to hire or retain employees. In a word, the full scale of the immigration shutdown caused by budgetary problems has not yet been fully understood and may shock the American economy.

“Over the past several months, USCIS has taken steps to prevent a financial crisis, including limiting payroll costs and critical activities. Without Congressional intervention, USCIS will have to take decisive action to keep the agency solvent,” a USCIS spokesperson said.

USCIS has traditionally been a self-funded agency that is entirely managed by fees paid by legal applicants and recipients of immigration-related services. However, under the Trump administration, costs have risen due to the presence of new employees at the agency who investigated possible cases of fraudulent immigration applications.

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Daniel Spooner, president of the local federation of civil servants that represents workers at USCIS, said: “It's not just the 13 American families that will be laid off during the pandemic. This is yet another lightly veiled attack on the legal immigration system by Trump administration officials. "

“Unable to fund this agency, the administration was able to use a global pandemic to effectively shut down all immigration to the United States by the end of the month, crippling thousands of American families and businesses in the process,” she added.

Immigration policies under Trump cut legal immigration by 49%, according to an analysis by the National Endowment for American Policy. Ron Clasco, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, outlined some of the main concerns regarding Trump's immigration policy:

  • a ban on the issuance of H, L and J visas;
  • ban on all immigrant visas (except visas for some immediate family members and EB-5);
  • the closure of the asylum system;
  • the reception of an unprecedentedly small number of refugees;
  • introduction of regulations on government fees with the aim and likely outcome of ending most family immigration;
  • the closure of U.S. consulates for more than five months even though businesses, schools, and other institutions in many host countries are fully operational for several months;
  • stopping the printing of employment documents and green cards;
  • implementation of the policy of separating children from their parents;
  • appointing anti-immigration officials to senior positions in various immigration agencies;
  • taking steps to significantly reduce the number of international students in the United States, including attempts to ex post facto their illegal presence due to technical irregularities, as well as attempts to ban students from coming to the United States or staying in the United States if their daytime course of study became online due to pandemics;
  • an increase in the processing time of applications to an unprecedented level, despite a decrease in the number of applications, due to the issuance of inappropriate and onerous requests for evidence, without regard to previous court decisions and the introduction of a policy of widespread interviews in cases for which this was not used before, with the main purpose of delaying the process ;
  • rejection of applications that can be approved in accordance with applicable law and previous interpretations;
  • announcement of intent to issue new rules to further limit authorizations and extensions of H-1B visas.

The USCIS layoffs seem like another step towards ending immigration.

“I don’t think I can stress enough how serious this problem is going to be,” lamented Ruark Hotopp, a USCIS worker representative in Nebraska who has spent years helping American businesses through his work at USCIS. “We are seeing the last days of legal immigration as it exists in the United States. International students, scientists coming to America to study COVID-19, asylum seekers, workers employed by American businesses, refugees—we're talking about millions of people dealing with an immigration system operating at 30% of its normal capacity. Our economy will lose billions in revenue, American businesses will lose access to needed labor, and hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants will be left in limbo.”

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The bill, introduced by US Representative Emanuel Cleaver, will pay for the $ 1,2 billion injected in Congress over two years by adding 10% to fees paid by legal applicants until USCIS private funding stabilizes. While discussions on USCIS funding have received some bipartisan support in Congress, Democrats have said they want funding to depend on reforms in USCIS.

However, not everyone agrees with the reform as an immediate measure that should be included in the agency's funding terms by Congress.

“Unless Congress acts, American companies that play by the rules will be devastated by these layoffs,” said Nick Walsh, who represents USCIS workers in Pennsylvania. “Before we can talk about reform, we need to keep the agency running and funded before it's too late—for our economy, our thousands of employees, and the millions of immigrants who rely on us.”

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