Record Numbers of New Citizens Created
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Though immigration officials in Phoenix are churning out record numbers of new U.S. citizens, critics say federal officials aren’t working fast enough, so many immigrants won’t become citizens in time to vote in November.
The Phoenix office for Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to grant citizenship to 2,000 legal immigrants this month, more than twice the usual 800 for May.
Charles Harrell, the office’s acting district director, said the immigration service is responding to a surge of applications that poured in last year.
Citizenship applications spike every four years preceding a presidential election, but the record surge last year was triggered by factors including a 70 percent fee increase that prompted thousands of immigrants to apply before the increase took effect Aug. 1.
Many immigrants also applied in hopes of being able to vote for president in the November general election.
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The flood of citizenship applications created a huge backlog. By the end of December, more than 1 million immigrants were waiting for their applications to be processed, and the CIS said it could take up to 18 months to plow through the backlog, compared with the usual six-month wait.
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(Posted on May 16, 2008)
Comments
I was loligagging through The Albuquerque Convention Center recently while a new citizenship party for about 650 people was streaming in. I got about ten steps off the escelator along with everyone else when a program director and security met me with a pointed, “May we help you?!?” Anybody care to guess how they figured out that one so quickly…
Posted by Tim Mc Hugh at 6:19 PM on May 16
These foreign invaders are not wanted in our country. We are no longer free but our real citizens have become the oppressed. Now some would elect the presidential candidate animals who would legalize tens of millions of more invaders and enemies.
Posted by Elrey Jones at 8:00 AM on May 17
It is not new citizens that freak me out, but some of our long suffering ethnic minorities. Something is happening below the surface in relations between blacks and Hispanics.
At yesterday`s gun show in Orlando, I saw about 5 times as many blacks and Hispanics as usually show up. They weren`t buying stupid 25 auto-matics or even fancy pistols. They were buying used shot guns and surplus military rifles , like Enfield 303 and Mauser 98s. I saw three groups of dread locked rap fans buying multiple weapons of this type. I also saw guys that looked like the Mexicans crawling around your roof after a hurricane buying the same. I wonder how many of these were new citizens?
It`s coming boys, a race war between blacks and Hispanics, pick your side and back them to the hilt.
Charlie
Posted by Charles B. Tiffany at 8:18 AM on May 19
I have no illusions whatsoever what is the purpose of this jump in naturalization applications. The culturally and genetically alien “minorities” were coached by American Liberals that voting en mass is the surest way of stealing America from Americans.
Posted by A Reader at 12:05 PM on May 19