The Wonderful Immigration Agency I work with Daily, Episode 3

Citizenship and Immigration Services wants you to know it's working full-time to welcome legal immigrants and new citizens to the country:

The number of people who legally immigrated to the U.S. dropped 17 percent last year, largely because of administrative problems, according to a Homeland Security Department report.

A total of 1.05 million people became legal permanent residents in 2007, falling from 1.27 million a year earlier, according to the report by the department's Office of Immigration Statistics.

Citizenship and Immigration Services has been under fire after processing times grew because immigrants flooded the agency with applications filed last year in advance of a dramatic increases in filing fees. The delays will keep some people from becoming citizens in time to vote in November.

To be fair, "I don't think anyone could have anticipated" a massive increase in immigration and citizenship filings before fees tripled last July.

Plus, most of these potential new citizens would vote Democratic in November. Best to nip that problem in the bud right now.