{"id":25419,"date":"2022-02-16T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25419"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:11:16","slug":"uscis-changed-mission-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2022\/02\/16\/uscis-changed-mission-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished: USCIS Bows to Immigration Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)\u00a0has shortened, and weakened, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/about-us\/mission-and-core-values\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">mission statement\u00a0<\/a>to amorphously declare that the agency\u00a0&#8220;upholds America\u2019s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;deleting&nbsp;critical\nverbiage about&nbsp;\u201csafeguarding&#8221; the immigration system and \u201cprotecting\u201d\nthe American people, the Biden administration signaled its surrender\nto&nbsp;the mass immigration lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/presidential-administration\/legal-immigration\/new-uscis-mission-statement-shows-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">FAIR<\/a> called this \u201clatest act of political theater\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A direct conflict with \u201cAmerica\u2019s promise\u201d\nthat is most clearly articulated by acts of Congress, which represent the will\nof the American people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A failure to understand that the federal\ngovernment works for the American people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An obsessive commitment to undo every change\nmade by the previous administration, regardless of need.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>USCIS\u2019s previous mission\nstatement wasn\u2019t broken, and didn\u2019t need fixing. It reasonably declared, \u201cU.S.\nCitizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation\u2019s lawful\nimmigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and\nfairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting\nAmericans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDriven by a desire to appease the advocates of unlimited immigration, the new mission statement fails to explain the agency\u2019s statutory directive,\u201d says Rob Law of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Law\/USCIS-Mission-Statement-Rewrite-Drops-Vetting-and-Protecting-Americans-Core-Values\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Immigration Studies (<\/a>CIS). \u201cThe American people are supposed to be the primary stakeholder in the immigration system, but the Biden administration has sent a clear message that \u2018protecting Americans\u2019 is not part of the consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political brass at USCIS spent 10 months buffing and polishing its 20-word pronouncement while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/08\/06\/uscis-bleeding-financially-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">financially fragile agency<\/a> strains under a historic backlog of applications. Whatever \u201cintegrity\u201d is left at USCIS, it appears that the president\u2019s appointees were deaf to dedicated career staff responsible for adjudicating benefits and screening for fraud and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cnation of welcome\u201d\nphrase blurs USCIS\u2019s <em>raison d\u2019etre<\/em>,\nand the \u201call we serve\u201d pledge echoes the \u201cGet to Yes\u201d mantra of former USCIS\nDirector Alejandro Mayorkas (now the agency\u2019s ultimate boss as Homeland\nSecurity secretary). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the \u2018customer is always\nright\u2019 in this context it means the alien always gets the immigration benefit,\u201d\nLaw concludes. \u201cBased on the policies of the Biden administration thus far, the\nmission statement\u2019s final clause can be translated as \u2018rubberstamping approvals\nfor all who apply.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)\u00a0has shortened, and weakened, its mission statement\u00a0to amorphously declare that the agency\u00a0&#8220;upholds America\u2019s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.&#8221;\u00a0 By&nbsp;deleting&nbsp;critical verbiage about&nbsp;\u201csafeguarding&#8221; the immigration system and \u201cprotecting\u201d the American people, the Biden administration signaled its surrender to&nbsp;the mass immigration<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2022\/02\/16\/uscis-changed-mission-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":16497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10412],"tags":[10413,1524,1527,115],"yst_prominent_words":[2122,12950,1938,3740,10470,8929,8925,1963,2557,2040,10552,2867,12949,12948,1994,4927,12951,8665,2014,1947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions\/25420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}