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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

The dysfunctional immigration system penalizes decent people as much as it creates national security risks for our nation and our citizens. It is certainly frustrating that aliens who legitimately should be naturalized are forced to wait, however, the lawsuit that has been filed to force USCIS to move even more rapidly to clear of the backlog of applications for naturalization will probably force that beleaguered agency to run its conveyor belts more rapidly even as a recent report noted that an estimated 30,000 aliens were naturalized last year without the adjudicators having access to the relating immigration files that may have contained derogatory information about them.

In a Washington Times article titled “U.S. faces lawsuit on citizenship delays,” Audrey Hudson reports:

Several groups filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday against the federal government, saying that years-long delays in background checks during the citizenship process violate immigration laws.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Asian Law Caucus filed the suit against the Justice and Homeland Security departments in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco.

"Plaintiffs all have spent many years in the United States and have made this nation their home," the lawsuit says. "They seek to pledge their allegiance to their adopted country and to participate fully in U.S. society as citizens."

Hudson goes on to describe the lawsuit but does not explain what the potential implications would be if the system was made to run even faster in terms of the potential risks to national security.

This administration and administrations before it have not been willing to concede that the entire immigration system represents a major link in the chain called "National Security." The United States does not differentiate between native born United States citizens and naturalized citizens other than where the positions of President and Vice President of the United States are concerned. In fact, there have been those who have suggested that the laws need to be changed to permit naturalized citizens to be eligible to run for those two positions.

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