Another Cynical Democratic "Citizenship USA" Voter Drive

[Geee]

Townhall:

There's only one time when you can depend on the chronically backlogged, recklessly inefficient Department of Homeland Security to perform smoothly: election season.

 

While hundreds of thousands of visa overstayers and deportation fugitives remain on the loose, federal bureaucrats at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are hastily recruiting tens of thousands of foreigners for the Obama administration's new "U.S. citizenship and immigrant civic integration" campaign.

 

For the past week, the agency has staged more than 200 naturalization ceremonies for more than 36,000 new citizens. In partnership with the Interior Department (the same one that blocked American veterans from visiting war memorials during the 2013 federal government standoff over spending), the feds hosted camera-ready events at national parks -- and encouraged their new political pawns to post propaganda photos across social media.

 

Local law enforcement agencies have a hell of a time getting hold of federal agents to help screen and detain criminal aliens. Fingerprint databases spread across DHS, the State Department and the Justice Department still don't talk to each other. There's still no comprehensive database to track the exits and entries of temporary visa holders -- let alone any functional system to kick out overstayers and keep them out.

 

But never mind all that! The Obama administration is here at the ready to provide new "customer service enhancements" this week so that "naturalization applicants will be able to use credit cards" to pay their $595 naturalization and $85 biometric fees. DHS has also formed a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to provide temporary office space to USCIS" and to "provide services to communities with significant numbers of immigrants who are not located near a USCIS office. Services will include biometrics collection, case interviews and information presentations."