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They are not going to do thatof course not. The officers are going to be totally unable to resist false claims from applicants. who happen to be the people they have arrested. It is going to demoralize immigration enforcement officers. ICE officers will again be issued orders basically to stand down. No enforcement is going to occur. It will be the effective end of immigration enforcement in America. in my opinion. You cannot maintain an effective. lawful. consistent. fair immigration enforcement policy with these kinds of regulations occurring and these kinds of orders from the White House. who is the Chief Executive Officer of America. who is empowered and directed to ensure that the laws of the United States are carried outnot empowered to violate the laws of the United States. We have also heard from officers who have processed immigration applications. These are people who receive applications to come to the United States in a lawful way. These dedicated folks at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are people who have to process all of these millions of applicants if the President issues his order. So let me read at length from a statement from the President of the USCIS Council. who represents these CIS officers who have an awesome duty. He wrote last yearthis is what he said: USCIS adjudications officers are pressured to rubber stamp applications instead of conducting diligent case review and investigation. This is the officers saying that their bosses are pressuring them to just rubber stamp applications right nownot to investigate. not to ask questionsjust approve them. He goes on: The culture at USCIS encourages all applications to be approved. discouraging proper investigation into red flags and discouraging the denial of any applications. USCIS has been turned into an "approval machine." That is what the top CIS officer said in a statement last fall. They have been turned into an approval machine. No wonder the American people are unhappy with what goes on here.