DOJ
Hello guys,
This is not inside information. It is well known that DOJ (Ashcoft)still controls the USCIS in a lot of ways through DHS or directly. Money allocated, mandate or not, policy and all are controlled by Ashcroft, who has been throwing fear around for a long time.
I mentioned in the Petition addresses that he should have been a recipient also..
If the SECURITY was/is so paramount why he did not hire or allocate ADDITIONAL people from DOJ to do the "dead people scanning and issuance of visas"? at the expense of nobody. He did not do that, since the backlogs also serve his policy to diminish immigration in one way or another.
What happened to his promises during the Senate confirmation hearings? (public domain)?
http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/washington_lawyer/august_2003/immigration.cfm
"Actually, it's not so much the laws that
have been passed by Congress as it is the
decisions that have been made and
positions that have been taken by Attorney
General Ashcroft," he says. "Because he
was dissatisfied with many of the pro-immigrant decisions of
the BIA, the Board of Immigration Appeals, he did two things.
First, he had five of the judges dismissed, and not on the basis
of seniority; curiously enough, they were the five most
pro-immigrant judges on the Board of Appeals. Secondly,
having streamlined the board, in an effort to speed up the
cases he allowed judges at the BIA level to issue decisions
without comment, summary decisions. These actions changed
the rules of the game for the BIA.
"The other thing that has immigration lawyers so concerned
is secret evidence. By that I mean once the AG has certified
someone as a terrorist, if the immigration judge decides that
some piece of evidence is national security sensitive, then he
can declare it secret, and unless the immigration lawyer has a
national security clearance, then he or she can't see it. And the
only case I've heard about in which the lawyer was allowed to
see secret evidence was one in which the immigration lawyer
was a former head of the CIA!"