See Agency That Issues Visas and Green Cards Is Hiring Armed Agents: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agents will now be allowed to arrest people for immigration violations by Michelle Hackman of The WSJ. Excerpts:
I used the book The Economics of Public Issues in my micro
classes. Chapter 1 is called "Death by Bureaucrat." It discusses how the
Food and Drug Administration can make either a Type I error or a Type
II error.
Type I error: The FDA approves a drug before enough testing is done and when people take it, there are harmful side effects.
Type II error: The FDA tests a drug longer than necessary to stay
on the safe side. But people might suffer because the drug is not yet
available. 80,000 people died waiting for Septra to be approved.
The FDA would usually rather make a Type II error because the public can
blame the FDA if a Type I error occurs.
Something similar is happening with immigration applications. USCIS wants to block fraudulent immigration applications. But how will they know which are fraudulent and which are valid? They might designate too few as fraudulent (Type I error) and let in some applicants that don't deserve it or might even be criminals. They might designate too many as fraudulent (Type II error) and keep out some applicants that are legitimate, law abiding candidates.
How will they block only the bad applicants? The article is vague on that. The only thing it says is they will look for "patterns of fraud, like groups of immigrants from the same country who submit nearly identical immigration applications or citizenship applicants who fake disabilities." But how do they know who is faking it? How will they know how "nearly identical" something has to be? What if it is just similar? No line is explained.
Excerpts from the article:
"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it plans to train several hundred federal law-enforcement agents to look for fraud in immigration applications"
"Joe Edlow, the agency’s newly installed director, said in an interview that he envisions the new law-enforcement body investigating patterns of fraud, like groups of immigrants from the same country who submit nearly identical immigration applications or citizenship applicants who fake disabilities to avoid taking the English proficiency exam. They will also make denaturalization of new citizens who lied on their applications a priority, he said.
The changes, he argued, shouldn’t affect most immigrants who make bona fide requests of the government.
“I’m not expecting this to have a chilling effect on applications,” Edlow said. “I’m expecting this to have a chilling effect on fraudulent applications, and that’s what I want.”
USCIS already has officers charged with tracking fraud or national security threats"
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