Some policies of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may appear to be puzzling at first glance, until you suspect the common denominator hidden among them. These puzzling policies include denying automatic citizenship to the children of soldiers, sailors, marines and fliers "born abroad to active service members[.]" Until recently, it was the policy of the United States government that the children of active military personnel serving outside of the United States were automatically citizens of the U.S.A. They were automatically U.S. citizens every bit as much as if they had been born within the U.S. borders. However the latest Acting Director of the USCIS, Mr. Kenneth Cuccinelli, backed out of that policy. See Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Scrutiny Over Scope, and Purpose, of Citizenship Policy, NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, August 30, 2019, p. A18 (the New York Times may charge for online access).
Those puzzling policies also include suddenly refusing permission for children already permitted to receive medical care in the United States, because they are in danger of death without it, to remain in the United States. Even though deporting them means sending them to their deaths. See Miriam Jordan and Caitlin Dickerson, Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported, NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, August 30, 2019, p. A19. This too is a change in policy instituted by Mr. Cuccinelli (a/k/a "the Cooch") (it bears repeating: the New York Times may charge for online access).
But the motivation behind all these policy changes ordered by Kenneth Cuccinelli is almost certainly the same: A quota. A quota like the quota supposedly imposed on police officers to hand out tickets. Whether true or not, that quota always surfaces about police officers (and police officers almost always deny it). Except in this case it's a quota of reducing the number of people who are in the United States -- or who would be, absent these changes in policy -- other than people who were born here.
So, reporters and journalists trying to cover this story, look for tell-tale signs of quota enforcement: things like bonuses, promotions, salary increases, and gifts like trips and such, provided by USCIS or any other agency of the current regime to any federal employee who reduces the number of people in the United States who were not born here in the first place.
That may be only the beginning.
P.S. on Tuesday, September 3, 2019:
After reports like the ones linked above were published, USCIS enigmatically announced that they "may" be looking at their deferred medical exemptions policy changes. Nobody can tell what that means. See for yourself: See, e.g., Miriam Jordan, Administration to Reconsider Deportation of Seriously Ill / Program Allowing Care Had Been Eliminated, NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, September 3, 2019 (readers be aware: the New York Times may charge for online access); Priscilla Alvarez, Immigration Agency to Re-Open Some Requests to Defer Deportation, CNN.com posted Monday, September 2, 2019. Still no word, unfortunately, about the current regime's quota system. And no word, either, in these articles about Mr. Ken Cuccinelli's hand in these changes in U.S. government policy.
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