Immigration Agencies Not Actually Capable of Processing 5 Million Applications

Needs more lawyers

Obama’s illegal alien amnesty is just going to be an open door. It’s his DREAMER amnesty on a much bigger scale.

The infrastructure isn’t there to process and check all these applications. Congress won’t be allocating money for an illegal unilateral amnesty (which sets them up to be blamed for the consequences of Obama’s illegal actions) so the whole thing will be an open door for just about anyone trying to get through.

The political debate over Obama’s unilateral immigration actions is obscuring the more basic question of whether the federal government is actually up to the task of handling a flood of applications from as many as 5 million illegal aliens seeking quasi-legal status.

Among the potential problems: the agency that handles immigration paperwork may have to double its capacity for applications very quickly; critics say the potential for fraud increases with a high volume of immigrants in a short amount of time; the wait time for all kinds of immigration approvals could dramatically increase.

The new immigration effort is a similar high-wire act that needs to be carried out without legislative or financial help from Congress. And it involves two agencies with checkered reputations among immigrant rights advocates: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. USCIS will have up to six months to get ready to accept applications, but will be pressured to process those requests quickly and could be tempted to cut corners.

A former federal immigration official involved with planning the 2012 program acknowledged that the new deferred action will be a test for the agency. “The modeling and the logistics are incredibly challenging,” said the ex-official, who asked not to be named. “USCIS processes about 4 million petitions a year already… So, we’re going to double that in a short period of time.”

And you can imagine how well that’s going to go.

“I do not see a need for a czar,” Pfeiffer said Friday at a breakfast organized by the Christian Science Monitor.

So that means we’ll have a czar by the end of the year.

  • ramrodd

    5 milion…please – try 40 – 50 million

    you people are shameless

  • Guest

    test

  • truebearing

    Processed or not, they’ll make fine illegal voters. Just try to prosecute them if they get caught.

    • Bamaguje

      They are unlikely to be caught, since Democrats oppose voter ID.

  • MukeNecca

    Both the American and Israeli Left is fanatically committed to the vision of radically transformed US and Israel. Naturally, both recognize the usefulness for their project in, respectively, illegal immigrants and the “Palestinians”.

    Treason hides behind various masks. Humanitarian considerations seems to be the most popular one nowadays.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Quite right. They have no way to figure out who to take and who to reject so it’s going to be a free for all and at the same time the borders will cease to exist. Get ready for not 4 or 5 million not even 11 million but 15 million.

  • Tim N

    Who needs applications? They’re just “documents” anyway..

  • BMS

    Give us your criminals, your-unskilled labor, your non-English speaking, welfare seeking individuals. That will be the new writing on the Statue of Liberty thanks to Emperor Obama.