NEW the shutdown has knocked E-Verify offline. Immigration courts are cancelling hearing, making hug

[riversedge]

Geeze!! Trump really is a loser!



NEW the shutdown has knocked E-Verify offline. Immigration courts are cancelling hearing, making huge backlog worse. US border agents are working but not getting paid. For a strained US immigration system, political impasse brings more dysfunction

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Shutdown worsens strain on U.S. immigration system

A man is detained in San Diego after crossing into the United States illegally from Mexico. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
By Nick Miroff


January 2 at 7:48 PM

Tens of thousands of U.S. immigration officers and agents are showing up for work each day to guard the Mexico border, where President Trump insists on putting a wall. But the government is shut down, so no one is getting paid.

The paralysis in bank accounts extends to overburdened U.S. immigration courts. New filings are piling up on dockets already backlogged by nearly 1 million cases, but many of the judges and clerks who process them have been sent home.

And when U.S. companies and employers want to check the immigration status of potential hires, they are greeted by a red banner across the top of the government’s E-Verify website. Those services are “currently unavailable due to a lapse in government appropriations,” it says.

Twelve days into the standoff over Trump’s $5 billion border-wall demand, major components of the U.S. immigration system are offline, out of order or under worsening strain...............................................

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[Kittycow]

1. Even worse for the legal US residents that ICE takes in by mistake.

That's happened a time or two. /s

[progressoid]

2. This is a plus for Trump humpers.

[akraven]

3. The subsidy to the Alaska State Troopers is gone. BLM is working for free.

They are the best of the best and in fact, since the shutdown, have saved several lives. We are, in plain speech, a federally owned & operated state. About 30% of it is federally owned. Including Denali National Park.

FUCK TRUMP AND THE GOP HE RODE IN ON.