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Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper
Under Trump, citizenship

and visa agency focuses

on fraud

By E. SPAGAT/S. TAREEN Edlow, who now over-
Associated Press sees the agency, said he
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The hasn't thought about the
head of the agency han- 2018 kerfuffle, but it crys-
dling citizenship and visa tallized for many how the
applications was surprised Trump administration has
when he faced blowback changed the government's
for cutting a reference to approach to legal immi-
the U.S. being a "nation of gration.
immigrants" in its mission USCIS, established with the
statement. Department of Homeland
The son of a Peruvian im- Security in 2003, is empha-
migrant added language sizing fraud detection, en-
about "protecting Ameri- forcement and vetting
cans" instead. those seeking to work, live
L. Francis Cissna argued or become U.S. citizens.
that America is indisputably Applicants, attorneys and In this June 26, 2020, file photo, Aisha Kazman Kammawie, of Ankeny, Iowa, takes the oath of
a nation of immigrants but employees call it overkill, allegiance during a drive-thru naturalization ceremony at Principal Park in Des Moines, Iowa.
that U.S. Citizenship and while immigration critics say Associated Press
Immigration Services' mis- it's overdue. asylum protections more cants from green cards. of cases stands at 5 million.
sion statement wasn't the New Trump administration difficult to get to disqualify- Processing times are longer,
place to say so. Joseph rules range from making ing more low-income appli- and the agency's backlog Continued on Page 2