Lions and tigers and corruption

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I find this peculiar...

As the agency that hands out green cards, work permits, and citizenship, among other immigration benefits, the temptations for employees of USCIS to commit crime are constant. USCIS employees work in an atmosphere that permits—and often encourages—the waiving of rules. It is only a small step from granting a discretionary waiver of an eligibility rule to asking for a favor or a taking a bribe in exchange for granting that waiver. Once an employee learns he can get away with low-level corruption and still advance up the ranks, he or she becomes more brazen.

He's equating waivers as corruption?

Without a specific example of what he's talking about, I'm skeptical of his preposition.

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I find this peculiar...

As the agency that hands out green cards, work permits, and citizenship, among other immigration benefits, the temptations for employees of USCIS to commit crime are constant. USCIS employees work in an atmosphere that permits—and often encourages—the waiving of rules. It is only a small step from granting a discretionary waiver of an eligibility rule to asking for a favor or a taking a bribe in exchange for granting that waiver. Once an employee learns he can get away with low-level corruption and still advance up the ranks, he or she becomes more brazen.

He's equating waivers as corruption?

Without a specific example of what he's talking about, I'm skeptical of his preposition.

My read is that he is taking the granting of waivers by way of a bribe or favor as the corruption, not the legitimate granting of waivers of eligibility. In other words, a waiver that perhaps would otherwise not of been granted and/or having it granted in a shorter timeframe had a bribe not be taken or favor granted in order to grant such waiver.