Government slowdown suppresses vote

If an immigrant to the U.S. obeys all the laws, meets all the rules for becoming a naturalized citizen, becomes fluent in the English language, and passes the citizenship test, don't you think it's fair for the government to process their application to become a citizen in a timely manner?

I think so, and you probably think so. But because of incompetence at the Department of Homeland Suckyurity, which includes the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (the bureau that now governs naturalization), it isn't the case.

Not long ago, workers' groups and other folks encouraged hundreds of thousands of newcomers to apply for citizenship - as the law permits them to do. But now the USCIS cries that it can't process all the forms - even though the bureau knew about the citizenship drive over a year ago. Um, with all that money going into the DHS??? How is the DHS spending all that dough anyway??? Is it doing like that one agency in Kentucky did when it hired some Republican donor who then refused to work so they just paid him to do nothing?

The processing time used to be 6 months. Now it's suddenly jumped to 18 months.

It turns out that this delay is making it so these applicants aren't officially granted citizenship until after the election that won't be for another 10 months from now. Thus, they won't be able to vote in it.

Gee, how convenient. And I don't believe for one second that it's accidental.

So now people who played by the rules (some of whom have lived in the U.S. for over 35 years) to be able to vote won't be able to.

The DHS's intentional sloth in processing the citizenship applications is nothing short of election fraud on a huge scale. But with a regime that politicizes every government agency like no administration before it, should we really be surprised?

(Source: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120062241887099569.html)