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

[millefleur 5,046]

5 hours ago, The_Empyrean said:

Backlogs have never been this bad in the entire history. 

 

1 hour ago, theresaL said:

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

What @theresaL said. It certainly feels that way, but would be nice to see some stats to know that it's factually true.

 

Edited April 26, 2019 by millefleur

[TBoneTX 45,266]

11 hours ago, Unidentified said:

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. 

Your professor's situation is valid (and he DID have something to offer the U.S.).

It isn't organic that caravans of thousands of refugees are all of a sudden appearing at our borders.

It isn't to the U.S.'s benefit to have that many landscapers & maids.

It's curious indeed that these people try to enter the U.S. rather than Panama, Costa Rica, or closer "safe" places.

[The_Empyrean 733]

10 hours ago, millefleur said:

 

What @theresaL said. It certainly feels that way, but would be nice to see some stats to know that it's factually true.

 

I'll see the timelines and try to compile stats, but over the course of a year while im here i've noticed that trend.

People with EAD's/AP's/AoS's never took this long as it is now. Now im talking 2012-2015 vs 2018-2019. I'm information and data geek.
if i'll have time in the future, remind me and i'll do a comparison for EAD AP AoS K-1 and CR-1 processing times 2018-2019 vs 2016-2017. It'll take hell lot of time, but i think a lot of people here would be interested to see. Admins would have to be on board as well as i'd need access to many people's timelines with more filtering that what Igor's list offers now. 

[Unidentified 2,930]

11 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Your professor's situation is valid (and he DID have something to offer the U.S.).

It isn't organic that caravans of thousands of refugees are all of a sudden appearing at our borders.

It isn't to the U.S.'s benefit to have that many landscapers & maids.

It's curious indeed that these people try to enter the U.S. rather than Panama, Costa Rica, or closer "safe" places.

I was talking in general about asylum seekers, not the caravan. 

[TBoneTX 45,266]

3 minutes ago, Unidentified said:

I was talking in general about asylum seekers, not the caravan. 

We agree on the concept.  I was focusing more on the potential for abuse than you were.

[Ben & Katy 168]

On 4/25/2019 at 11:53 PM, TBoneTX said:

Your professor's situation is valid (and he DID have something to offer the U.S.).

It isn't organic that caravans of thousands of refugees are all of a sudden appearing at our borders.

It isn't to the U.S.'s benefit to have that many landscapers & maids.

It's curious indeed that these people try to enter the U.S. rather than Panama, Costa Rica, or closer "safe" places.

That is the same thing I was thinking too.  I know that the USA has meddled so much into their governments over the past 200 years but at the same time its weird that all of sudden when Trump becomes president it increases ten fold.  It almost feels like he is being trolled by either Soros, Pueblos Sin Fronteras or Bartolo Fuentes (huge anti american journalist from Honduras) or all of them at the same time.  The more Trump gets angry the more migrants come.   It feels like they are doing this just to try to destabilize the administration or the USA as a whole.    Watching the news from Mexico the IMN (mexican ICE) is already trying to stop the flow of Central Americans entering as the Obrador administration is feeling pressure from the Mexican public that no longer give the caravans warm welcomes.  

[TBoneTX 45,266]

Can't remember where I heard this, so take it with a grain of salt, but the coyotes are allegedly running radio ads down there. The unanswered question is who's funding and organizing this effort.

[Boiler 45,466]

Well if I wanted to destabilise an opponent this is certainly one route I would take, has a very high bang for the buck. You can cause large and long term issues for a small investment.

[TBoneTX 45,266]

On talk radio today, a caller from El Paso stated that the English-language El Paso media are very quiet about the hordes outside & inside the border -- such as no reports about the two groups (totaling what: 600? 800?) caught at two Nuevo Mexico POEs just yesterday.  The Mexican television stations, conversely, are reporting on it.  This includes displeasure expressed by Mexicans who've applied for visas and who now have a 6-month wait while the illegals merely waltz in.  The caller also stated that people are visiting the gyms and other "holding places" for the illegals in Ciudad Juarez and are coaching the illegals on how to behave and what to say to CBP.

[TandClaudia 330]

On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 7:36 PM, millefleur said:

 

What @theresaL said. It certainly feels that way, but would be nice to see some stats to know that it's factually true.

 

 

This is the USCIS response to Congress regarding case backlogs.  You'll probably have to download the PDF.

 

Page 3 (bullet point 4) shows the gross backlogs for USCIS over the past five fiscal years.

 

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/whats-happening-in-congress/congressional-updates/uscis-responds-to-letter-from-86-house-members

 

[Mike E 11,739]

On 4/24/2019 at 4:22 PM, Cyberfx1024 said:

Then you can file after the 90 day window since there are no repercussions for doing that. Once you get the marriage license it will show the marriage date on it. 

1.  A marriage license is not proof of a marriage taking place. A marriage certificate is.

 

2. You replied to what I wrote: 

Besides which, if LA County fails to ever deliver a marriage cert and then denies ever receiving a signed marriage license, then the couple cannot prove it married before the 90 days.

 

Your response totally fails to address my point. An organization that takes 12 weeks to get a marriage cert is an organization that will lose marriage records.\

 

3. There are most definitely repercussions:

 

 

 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

2 minutes ago, Mike E said:

1.  A marriage license is not proof of a marriage taking place. A marriage certificate is.

 

2. You replied to what I wrote: 

Besides which, if LA County fails to ever deliver a marriage cert and then denies ever receiving a signed marriage license, then the couple cannot prove it married before the 90 days.

 

Your response totally fails to address my point. An organization that takes 12 weeks to get a marriage cert is an organization that will lose marriage records.\

 

3. There are most definitely repercussions:

 

 

 

1. Sorry but it depends on the state. I kept my marriage certificate and submitted the filled out and signed, and notarized marriage license for AOS without issue. 

 

2. Again you are acting like this has something to do with USCIS. When in reality you need to go put a fire under someone's ### in LA County to see why it is taking so long. I wasn't happy with how LA County ran and did things that is why I got out of that stupid county as soon as I could. 

 

3. I never said that there wasn't repercussions but the vast majority of people have no issue going outside the 90 day authorized period unless you live anywhere along the border. Which if you take a trip anywhere close to El Centro or Brawley you will go through a immigration checkpoint. 

[Mike E 11,739]

1 minute ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

 I never said that there wasn't repercussions 

Then you can file after the 90 day window since there are no repercussions for doing that. Once you get the marriage license it will show the marriage date on it. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

Then you can file after the 90 day window since there are no repercussions for doing that. Once you get the marriage license it will show the marriage date on it. 

You sir are taking that out of context. There is NO repercussions filing for AOS late which means that there are no repercussions like: fines, increased scrutiny of the petition, or anything else. But the people have to file the AOS first. 

 

If you are getting this intense with people because of LA County's screw up then you should just drive the 4 hours to Vegas and get a quickie marriage and marriage certificate that way. 

[TBoneTX 45,266]

Mike E, stop the bickering in this thread and elsewhere now.