Five-year high in approvals of citizenship? (1 Viewer)

Bizarro Tactic. Impeachable?

Homeland Security reached a five-year high in approvals of citizenship applications last year, and swore in more people as naturalized citizens as well, according to the new statistical report released Friday night.

These are people who came to the USA at least 5 years ago 

Did i read that right? Applications are up 61%, approvals are up 32%. Is that really up, except in counting terms? 

Rattle and Hum said:

Bizarro Tactic. Impeachable?

Homeland Security reached a five-year high in approvals of citizenship applications last year, and swore in more people as naturalized citizens as well, according to the new statistical report released Friday night.

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Here is a link to the report because that article is unreadable - LINK

I have 2 friends (and their families) who have processed citizenship applications this year. They were green card holders from El Salvador and Ireland that were content to keep that status indefinitely, but feared that the Trump admin could makes changes that would prevent them from maintaining their green cards. Each family had 7-10 years in this country, and have well established roots here.

So that may be a reason for the uptick. Fear of the rhetoric about immigrants that could force them to leave their homes.

Good news all around these days.

wikkidpissah said:

Did i read that right? Applications are up 61%, approvals are up 32%. Is that really up, except in counting terms? 

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Plus, this: applications for asylum are up 61% and interviews for asylum are down to only about 1/5 of the number performed in 2016 (assuming I've properly deduced what number they meant by "1250,000" as "125,000.")