The federal government is approving U.S. citizenship requests at the quickest rate in a decade, dispensing with a backlog attributed to the coronavirus pandemic and a tighter approval regime that reached its zenith under former President Donald Trump, a report Tuesday sets out.
Naturalization ceremonies typically spike ahead of a an election, the New York Times report makes clear, before detailing the rise in approval numbers for citizenship that also confers with it full voting rights.
Immigration analyst Xiao Wang, chief executive of Boundless, a company that reportedly uses government data to analyze immigration trends while offering services to immigrants who seek professional help in navigating the application process, told the outlet the rush comes with commensurate outcomes:
The surge in naturalization efficiency isn’t just about clearing backlogs; it’s potentially reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election.
Every citizenship application could be a vote that decides Senate seats or even the presidency.
The NY Times report goes on to set out at under five months, application processing speed is now on a par with 2013 and 2014. About 3.3 million immigrants have become citizens during President Joe Biden’s time in office, with less than two months to go before the close of the 2024 fiscal year.
The change in speed can also be traced back to the last change in occupant for the White House.
After taking office in 2021, Biden issued an executive order that sought to reverse former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda and “restore faith” in the legal immigration system, the NY Times report outlines.
Among other steps, the order called for action to “substantially reduce current naturalization processing times.”
The Biden administration also shortened the naturalization application to 14 pages from 20. It raised the application fee in April to $710 from $640, but made it easier for low-income people to qualify for a discount.
Read the full New York Times report here
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Politico Admits ‘Border Czar’ Harris ‘Resisted Taking Ownership of Immigration’
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to help fix President Joe Biden’s border collapse in 2021, said the “head of news” at Politico, a pro-establishment media site in Washington, DC.
The useful admission was presented on August 10 by Alexander Burns, underneath a headline saying, “‘Smash the Gangs’: What Harris Can Learn From [left-wing UK Prime Minister] Keir Starmer.”
The article by the “head of news” admitted:
Harris, too, resisted taking ownership of immigration; when Biden charged her with managing the troubled Northern Triangle countries in Central America, Harris bristled at the implication that she had a direct role to play in fixing the border.
The admission is useful for voters because D.C. reporters are running away from their March 2021 cheerleading for Harris’s role as “border czar.” The formal job and title do not exist, but D.C. politicians, staffers, and journalists have long used “czar” to describe top officials who handle issues that cross many agencies.
Per Politico:
Biden pushed off a reckoning again and again, eventually issuing strict new border control measures just weeks before his campaign unraveled. Harris, too, resisted taking ownership of immigration; when Biden charged her with managing the troubled Northern Triangle countries in Central America, Harris bristled at the implication that she had a direct role to play in fixing the border.
President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are making the same border-czar “resisted taking ownership” point as they blame Harris for failing to stop Biden’s policies that have imported roughly 10 million legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants into Americans’ workplaces, housing, and politics. “They basically threw open the gates of our country,” Vance told ABC News on August 11.
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NYC migrant crisis costs will crack eye-popping $5 billion on shelters, security and food — amount could double by 2025
The cost of the crisis equals nearly the entire NYPD budget of $5.75 billion
The financial hits from the migrant crisis keep on coming.
New York City has likely surpassed $5 billion in spending on services for migrants — including nearly $2 billion alone on housing the scores of new arrivals flooding into the Big Apple, according to city data.
The eye-popping figures, listed on the city’s online asylum-seeker funding tracker, shows the city overall spent $4.88 billion combined through fiscal years 2023 and ‘24. Based on the rate of spending, the city likely exceeded more than $112 million since the start of the new fiscal year beginning July 1, or will soon, cracking $5 billion.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has even projected the cost could double, hitting $10 billion over the three year period ending June 30, 2025.
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