USA Today: President Donald Trump orders crackdown on 'visa overstays' in latest push against illegal immigration

[The_Empyrean 733]

16 hours ago, Unidentified said:

You know they're not processed at the same centers, right? 

Yes i do. 

But in grand scheme, they use the money from the same pool. Majority of that money comes from us.

Not in the same centers, but people are hired to process them with that money, instead of hiring people to do the backlog with, let's say CR-1, K-1, F visas etc. So instead (just an example) having 10 people working on k-1's, they have 5 people working on k-1's, and use the remainder money to have 5 working on illegals/asylums and such.

 

Everything is getting backlogged. Not only one or two centers. 

Now if they had a separation from USCIS to deal with illegals, daca, Asylums, and other similar situations. Funding could come from Daca's filers, and federal funds. Backlog there could be years, as they are not paying (except daca i believe). While they could allocate appropriate funds to process AoS's, EAD's, AP's, K-1's, CR-1's, K-2's and other visas that actually should be prioritized, as they are filed by citizens/LPR's, who're trying to get their children, parents, and spouses/fiances to get legally into United States. Separate and deal with illegals separately, using tax payers money, I'm sure then people will start being unhappy with their money being spent on someone who shouldn't be here in the first place, and double check their facts on whether CBP is bad, or illegals are bad. 

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9 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

I've been exposed to the asylum process recently.

There's an incredible chasm between groups of those who apply.

 

E.g., the Venezuelans are typically middle- & upper-class people who escaped and arrived here on tourist visas.

They already have plans for their new lives and will hit the ground running, if approved for asylum.

Conversely, more of the Central Americans are of lower class, and some are even illiterate in their native language.

These can barely assist others in completing the necessary asylum paperwork on their own behalf.

 

I have it on ultra-reliable, unquestionable authority that the question "If you are approved for asylum status, what do you have to offer the United States?" is not part of USCIS's asylum interviews.  This sobers and frightens me.

One thing that the American media has left out about the crisis in Central America and Venezuela is that a lot of people from these countries have actually taken up residency or even asylum in Mexico.  You would only be able to see it if one read news from local Mexican papers or if one lived or frequently visited Mexico.  It would be interesting if a news agency like NPR did a segment on those who decided to live in Mexico instead of trying to come the US for asylum purposes. 

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2 hours ago, Ben & Katy said:

One thing that the American media has left out about the crisis in Central America and Venezuela is that a lot of people from these countries have actually taken up residency or even asylum in Mexico.  You would only be able to see it if one read news from local Mexican papers or if one lived or frequently visited Mexico.  It would be interesting if a news agency like NPR did a segment on those who decided to live in Mexico instead of trying to come the US for asylum purposes. 

That is true as well. Luckily I have a Tejano friend of mine who is fluent in Spanish so he has been translating a lot of Spanish news for me. A fair number of people are pissed off that the Mexican government let them stay in the country all the while not helping out the everyday citizens of Mexico. 

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7 hours ago, The_Empyrean said:

Yes i do. 

But in grand scheme, they use the money from the same pool. Majority of that money comes from us.

Not in the same centers, but people are hired to process them with that money, instead of hiring people to do the backlog with, let's say CR-1, K-1, F visas etc. So instead (just an example) having 10 people working on k-1's, they have 5 people working on k-1's, and use the remainder money to have 5 working on illegals/asylums and such.

 

Everything is getting backlogged. Not only one or two centers. 

Now if they had a separation from USCIS to deal with illegals, daca, Asylums, and other similar situations. Funding could come from Daca's filers, and federal funds. Backlog there could be years, as they are not paying (except daca i believe). While they could allocate appropriate funds to process AoS's, EAD's, AP's, K-1's, CR-1's, K-2's and other visas that actually should be prioritized, as they are filed by citizens/LPR's, who're trying to get their children, parents, and spouses/fiances to get legally into United States. Separate and deal with illegals separately, using tax payers money, I'm sure then people will start being unhappy with their money being spent on someone who shouldn't be here in the first place, and double check their facts on whether CBP is bad, or illegals are bad. 

They've been backlogged for years, it is nothing new and I don't think much of it has anything to do with DACA or asylum seekers. What is bad is all the people who falsely claim asylum as we are probably going to get more of actual asylum seekers eventually. It is kind of with the visa fraud countries... The false asylum seekers are making it so that actual asylum seekers will have a harder time getting asylum. 

[The_Empyrean 733]

6 minutes ago, Unidentified said:

They've been backlogged for years, it is nothing new and I don't think much of it has anything to do with DACA or asylum seekers. What is bad is all the people who falsely claim asylum as we are probably going to get more of actual asylum seekers eventually. It is kind of with the visa fraud countries... The false asylum seekers are making it so that actual asylum seekers will have a harder time getting asylum. 

Backlogs have never been this bad in the entire history. 

It all started getting worse with Trump getting close to the office, and got the worst when he became president. So umm.. Illegals are trying to adjust statuses too. Yeah. That's happening too. Applying for EAD's, AP's. Large volume of applicants in short amount of time. 

It's related to Your statement too. IT's not one or two things. It's a lot of different things that fell at the same time. don't get me wrong.
Backlogged for 3-4months for majority of the time, versus backlogged 7-12months (K-1) is a big difference.

Until people will start acknowledging it, we will have issues with immigration.

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Just now, The_Empyrean said:

Backlogs have never been this bad in the entire history. 

It all started getting worse with Trump getting close to the office, and got the worst when he became president. So umm.. Illegals are trying to adjust statuses too. Yeah. That's happening too. Applying for EAD's, AP's. Large volume of applicants in short amount of time. 

It's related to Your statement too. IT's not one or two things. It's a lot of different things that fell at the same time. don't get me wrong.
Backlogged for 3-4months for majority of the time, versus backlogged 7-12months (K-1) is a big difference.

Until people will start acknowledging it, we will have issues with immigration.

No, it was bad even before that. I did our K1 in 2014 and they were backlogged even then. Not much has changed. 

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Mine was longer than now, has been a lot longer in the past.

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14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

I've been exposed to the asylum process recently.

There's an incredible chasm between groups of those who apply.

 

E.g., the Venezuelans are typically middle- & upper-class people who escaped and arrived here on tourist visas.

They already have plans for their new lives and will hit the ground running, if approved for asylum.

Conversely, more of the Central Americans are of lower class, and some are even illiterate in their native language.

These can barely assist others in completing the necessary asylum paperwork on their own behalf.

 

I have it on ultra-reliable, unquestionable authority that the question "If you are approved for asylum status, what do you have to offer the United States?" is not part of USCIS's asylum interviews.  This sobers and frightens me.

Isn't that pretty irrelevant for asylum though? Isn't it supposed to be for people who need to flee and absolutely can't stay in their home country for various reasons? I had a professor once who was the agricultural minister of Madagascar and while he was here on a business trip there was a coup. He got political asylum because he would most likely have been killed if he had returned.  

 

So it is pretty irrelevant if the person can offer something to the United States if they could get killed in their home country. And yes, I know a lot of our current asylum seekers are not in this category but that is what asylum is for though right? To protect people from other countries who can't possibly go back. 

[The_Empyrean 733]

10 minutes ago, Unidentified said:

No, it was bad even before that. I did our K1 in 2014 and they were backlogged even then. Not much has changed. 

How long did Your EAD/AP/AoS take?

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4 minutes ago, The_Empyrean said:

How long did Your EAD/AP take?

As you can see on my timeline it took 64 days. 

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1 hour ago, Unidentified said:

As you can see on my timeline it took 64 days. 

84 and counting. 

I see AoS took a less than 6months too. 

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51 minutes ago, The_Empyrean said:

84 and counting. 

I see AoS took a less than 6months too. 

At least you're here, waiting for it inside the US. 

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It is interesting that the ROC backlog started in December 2016 particularly at CSC.

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4 hours ago, The_Empyrean said:

Backlogs have never been this bad in the entire history. 

Do you have data that you can share that shows this is true?

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38 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

It is interesting that the ROC backlog started in December 2016 particularly at CSC.

Gee I wonder why?