News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Citizenship applicants protest delays

Associated Press

Article Launched: 01/29/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

DALLAS -- Dozens of legal residents waiting to become U.S. citizens protested on Monday over delays in processing naturalization applications that will keep many of them from voting in the presidential election this year.

The rally outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office came the same day the agency's director visited Dallas for the start of a new class to train adjudicators.

Most of the 150 people at the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now rally wore T-shirts that said: "We waited in line. We followed the rules. Citizenship 07-04-08. Don't break the promise."

Citizenship and Immigration Services officials say some who applied for naturalization will have to wait up to 18 months, more than twice the national average of seven months. The wait will keep immigrants who applied after June 1 from becoming naturalized citizens in time to register to vote in the November presidential election.

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