DHS Ill-Equipped to Handle Amnesty
"As the nation debates whether, and how, to
legalize as many as 12 million illegal immigrants living here, the agency that would spearhead the effort is confronting its reputation as a broken bureaucracy whose inefficiency encourages more illegal immigration and paradoxical disincentives to change," the Washington Post reports. "As backlogs and deficits grew, the agency ratcheted up charges to cover its budget. The longer applicants waited, the more they paid. 'We were really operating a Ponzi scheme,' said [one official], who retired last year after 31 years at the agency. 'The money that current applicants were paying, we were using to adjudicate older cases.'"
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