Thread: Legal immigration drops in U.S., application processing blam

Legal immigration drops in U.S., application processing blamed

Associated Press - April 4, 2008 7:25 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security says the number of people who legally immigrated to the U.S. dropped 17% last year.

Officials say the decline is largely due to administrative problems.

A total of 1.05 million people became legal permanent residents in 2007, falling from 1.27 million a year earlier.

Details are in a report by the department's Office of Immigration Statistics.

Citizenship and Immigration Services has been under fire after processing times grew because immigrants flooded the agency with applications filed last year in advance of a dramatic increases in filing fees.

But Homeland Security spokeswoman Veronica Nur Valdes says comparing the 2007 legal resident numbers to the previous year -- is unfair.

She says Citizenship and Immigration Services hit the height of a 5-year effort to reduce backlogs in 2006 and the drop in green cards reflects that.


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Immigration is supposed to be optimized to suit the interests of the citizens of the United States not those who want to be. Mexico does not tailor it's policies to suit the desire of Central Americans their own neighbors to the South or anywhere else neither should we.

That number of over a million LPRs in 2007 is still huge.

Agreed "Populist" its still way to high!!

Why should foreigns come to the US legally when it's much easier to come illegally?