The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the US being a \u201cnation of immigrants\u201d in its mission statement. The son of a Peruvian immigrant added language about \u201cprotecting Americans\u201d instead.<\/p>\n
L. Francis Cissna argued that America is indisputably a nation of immigrants but that US Citizenship and Immigration Services\u2019 mission statement wasn\u2019t the place to say so. Joseph Edlow, who now oversees the agency, said he hasn\u2019t thought about the 2018 kerfuffle, but it crystallized for many how the Trump administration has changed the government\u2019s approach to legal immigration.<\/p>\n
USCIS, established with the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, is emphasizing fraud detection, enforcement and vetting those seeking to work, live or become US citizens. Applicants, attorneys and employees call it overkill, while immigration critics say it\u2019s overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the US being a \u201cnation of immigrants\u201d in its mission statement. The son of a Peruvian immigrant added language about \u201cprotecting Americans\u201d instead. L. Francis Cissna argued that America is indisputably a nation of immigrants but that US Citizenship and Immigration Services\u2019 mission statement wasn\u2019t the place to say so. Joseph Edlow, who now oversees the agency, said he hasn\u2019t thought about the 2018 kerfuffle, but it crystallized for many how the Trump administration has changed the government\u2019s approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}