Trump Administration Seeks To Close International Immigration Offices

Trump Administration Seeks To Close International Immigration Offices

Article created by Vanessa Romo and Joel Rose for NPR            (https://www.npr.org/2019/03/12/702807908/trump-administration-seeks-to-close-international-immigration-offices)

For a news organization that sits left of center, and often reports with a bias against the current president, the title of this article seems oddly stale. NPR, or National Public Radio, is an organization that one would expect a slightly more loaded title, instead it seems rather on the nose. However, it should be noted that the actual content of this story is certainly titled left. This article lays out a recent administration decision to cut down on the number of foreign offices the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 23 to 0. These planned closures would save millions of dollars each year according to the Trump administration. With the closure of these offices, and much of the Agency in general, the duties would be transferred to the State Department, Defense Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. A spokesperson for the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) claimed that this would not result in a bottleneck for those seeking asylum in the US. It is at this point that the NPR story begins to show its bias as they then begin to discuss the potential negative impacts of closing these offices. The authors of this story quote Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst for Migration Policy Institute, who states that this decision would likely exacerbate the existing bottleneck in the process that already exists. The authors of this piece continue in this vain for the last few paragraphs of this article, making the prediction that this move would result in further calls for more reductions in immigration.