USCIS, agency manipulating green cards and citizenship, to hire armed special agents who can arrest
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that the agency that assesses if immigrants should be granted green cards and citizenship will add its own law enforcement agents which can carry firearms and arrests.
This decision is a major change for citizenship and immigration services in the United States, an agency that has been maintained separate from immigration arrests and applying deportations. The USCIS assesses applications and interviews immigrants seeking to remain legally in the country by obtaining green cards, becoming naturalized citizens or being approved for humanitarian programs.
USCIS said Thursday in a statement by virtue of the new rule, it will be authorized to add “special agents” who “will be empowered to investigate, stop and present to pursue those who violate American immigration laws”. The final rule of the Trump administration will be in force at 30 days from its publication, he said.
As a general rule, the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, grants the agency the right to hire agents who can arrests, carry firearms, execute searches and arrest mandates and who will have “other powers for the federal police,” said USCIS in the press release.
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“USCIS has always been an application agency.” This historic moment will better address immigration offenses, will hold those who perpetuate responsible immigration fraud and act as a force multiplier for the DHS and our federal partners to apply the law, including the joint working group on terrorism. “
The agency said in its declaration that “USCIS would be able to more effectively erase its arrears from foreigners who seek to exploit our fraud immigration system, pursue them and remove them from the country.”
Edlow told Wall Street Journal, which first reported the change, that the agency planned to train several hundred federal special agents who are looking for immigration fraud in requests and could stop immigrants or lawyers who have engaged in fraud.
The criticisms of the new rule said that having law enforcement agents on interview sites that could potentially stop immigrants can have a scary effect on people ‘desire to ask for advantages for which they are eligible, WSJ reported.
This decision comes as the Trump administration is looking for new ways to massively increase immigration implementation in order to expel some 1 million immigrants per year.
The rule follows a series of other recent changes to the agency which strengthen control of immigrant candidates. In a memorandum last month, the USCIS said that it would resume “neighborhood surveys”, which could include interviews with the neighbors and the colleagues of the candidates.
USCIS also updated advice in its policy manual in August to examine and examine all “ideologies or anti-American activities”, including on social networks, when they decide whether they were to issue immigration services to individuals. “Anti-American activity will be an extremely negative factor in any discretionary analysis”, according to directives.
