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This recent Reuters report helps explain why many immigration cases have been taking longer than usual at . According to the agency’s internal guidance, officers are now required to complete enhanced security and background checks, including expanded FBI criminal record reviews, before approving many pending applications.

As a result, cases that were already in process may be paused or re‑vetted, which can extend processing times.

At this time, USCIS has not provided a specific timeline for when normal processing speeds will fully resume. While the agency has stated that delays should be “brief,” it is not possible to predict how long it will take USCIS to complete these additional checks and adjust its workflow.

US mandates what it calls 'enhanced' security checks for immigration applicants President Donald Trump's administration has mandated what it calls "enhanced" security checks for immigration applicants, according to internal guidance sent ​to the employees of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which ‌is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump fires Noem as frustrations build among White House officials, GOP lawmakers.

Trump fires Noem as frustrations build among White House officials, GOP lawmakers | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said Thursday on social media he was firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and would name Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.

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Is this truly the best strategy this Administration can offer for enforcing civil immigration law? It calls to mind the same judgment Kristi Noem displayed when, unable to think of a single humane alternative for her “out-of-control” dog, she chose to shoot it. Think about that. Who shoots their own dog because they lack a better solution? And who then asks the public to ignore what they plainly saw and accept a self-serving rewrite of events?

Yet this is the person our elected officials placed in charge of the largest federal law-enforcement agency in the nation—empowered to hire thousands of armed agents, cloak them in anonymity and near-immunity, and deploy them into democratic cities under the banner of civil immigration enforcement. Responsibility for what follows does not vanish into the bureaucracy. It rests squarely with every supporter of this regime; with every Republican member of Congress who voted to confirm Secretary Noem; and with every ICE officer who pulls on a mask and stands beside Gregory Bovino. Accountability will come—if not first in a court of law, then inevitably in the court of public opinion. That is the American way. And when it does, do not ask for mercy. You knew better. You made your CHOICE Mr. Bovino. The consequences are yours alone. As you like to say: FAFO.

The methods are wrong. The strategy is wrong. Take the masks off long enough to see it. What you are doing is wrong, and no legitimate objective justifies the damage you are inflicting on free communities and the American people. This is not law enforcement; it is intimidation. Stop acting like fascist thugs. Take the six-figure signing bonus, go back to school, and learn what is plainly true: there are countless better, lawful, and humane ways to achieve immigration compliance.