Session #113 · 2013–15

Speech #1130124035

Crystal City. VA. to hire 1.000 people to process these applications. Now. how are things going in our immigration system today? I wish I could report better circumstances than we have. The situation was grave even before this action. On May 20. last year. National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council president. representing thousands of USCIS workers. issued a statement. Colleagues. we need to know what has happened. It is unbelievable. This is a person directly engaged with the people who do the work every day. the law officers who go out there and try to adjudicate these immigration cases. USCIS adjudications officers are pressured to rubber stamp applications instead of conducting diligent case review and investigation. 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." This is an absolute abdication of the responsibility the Congress and the American people have given to the President as the Chief Executive Officer and given all the way down to the lowest USCIS officer. They are not to be a rubberstamp machine. They are not to be an approval machine.
Keywords matched
USCIS immigration Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2014-12-04
Speech ID
1130124035
Paragraph
#6
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