Citizenship and Immigration Services, placing the conservative activist and former Virginia attorney general at the head of the agency that runs the country’s legal immigration system, administration officials said Friday. [Trump administration will hire Cuccinelli for senior DHS border role]L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Ken Cuccinelli,” McConnell said. He heightened scrutiny of legal immigration applications while continuing to naturalize thousands of lawful immigrants. But immigration lawyers and Democrats have criticized Cissna for throwing sand in the gears of the nation’s legal immigration system.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 21:30 UTC