The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is changing its mission statement. Can you spot the differences?
Before
USCIS secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system.After
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.
Well, clearly, the mission now is all about lawfulness, safeguarding, protecting, and securing, as opposed to providing and granting and promoting.
Oh, and we’re not to be referred to as a “nation of immigrants,” because who wants to admit that our family members were once dirty furriners from “shithole countries”?
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Remove “Nation of Immigrants” From Mission Statement
In an email sent to staff members Thursday, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the agency’s new mission statement.
That deletion is obviously intended to show respect to the indigenous people. Mr Trump is a well-known advocate for their interests. Now about that pipeline…