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Problems Plague Immigration Agency

Critics call for overhaul of inefficient, backlogged operations

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted May 28, 2007 7:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – The agency that will have to deal with the avalanche of paperwork generated by immigration reform can't handle it, the Washington Post reports today. With over a million citizenship applications already stalled in the pipeline, Citizenship and Immigration (the former INS) faces the possibility that... Read full story »

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