- USCIS Reduces Its Backlog for the First Time in Years
On February 9, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released data about its progress toward meeting its strategic goals in fiscal year (FY) 2023. For the first time in years, the agency reduced its net backlog, despite having received a record 10.9 million filings.
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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. After a failed first attempt, the second vote passed, 214 to 213.
The impeachment process in the House was political grandstanding and will do nothing to address the challenges at our border. The American Immigration Council will continue advocating for real solutions, like investing in our immigration courts and rehauling our humanitarian protections.
Read more: Beyond A Border Solution
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Last week, the Senate passed the long-awaited supplemental funding bill without any of the immigration measures in the legislation proposed last week. The bill originally offered funding for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel in exchange for a variety of significant changes to immigration law and border policy.
Though the immigration measures didn’t pass in this bill, the ideas in the bill may live on and could be incorporated in other legislation in the future.
The Council published a comprehensive yet digestible analysis of the immigration measures in the Senate bill, looking at what they would do to our current system and what actions the U.S. government could take instead.
Read more: An Analysis of the Senate Border Bill
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