How to Respond to the USCIS Bailout Request

Eric Cohen of the Immigrant Legal Resources Center has a very thoughtful analysis on The Hill about why U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCSIS) is in budgetary trouble, threatening to furlough employees, and seeking a bailout from Congress — it has become an immigration enforcement agency under President Trump, instead of a citizenship and immigrant services agency.  Cohen calls for the following:

“Congress should not help the Trump administration construct larger barriers for immigrants, or go along with the administration’s attempt at using the COVID-19 pandemic to secure funding for its enforcement priorities. Instead, Congress must require that USCIS return to providing the basic customer service the agency was created to ensure. We shouldn’t be handing this administration a blank check to enforce an agenda that cannot gain popular support by any other means.”

KJ