But Cravener said he has moved to solve the problem by hiring 20 new INS officers who will work specifically on eliminating the green card backlog. He acknowledged that it will be several months before they are trained, on the job and able to work at processing the stockpiled paperwork. Some of the problems related to green card delays can be traced back to policies set in Washington. The processing of green cards has been caught up in a highly partisan debate in Washington over the creation of new voters. Under the Clinton administration, the INS has been directed to put most of its resources into processing naturalizations, while all but ignoring processing green cards.
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Republicans cried foul of the Clinton administration's naturalization push, noting that most immigrants vote for Democrats. All rights reserved.