Several Senate Democrats have sent a letter to the
Department of Homeland Security asking it to end the
competition of 1,100 immigration information officer’s
positions, according to a statement issued by the Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee.
The letter cited documents obtained from DHS showing that
officials of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Services had determined that the competition was ill timed
given the current reorganization of the department and
immigration services, that the competition would not lead
to greater efficiency and that the job functions of the
information officers were improperly classified for
potential competitions, according to the statement.
“The concerns of the department’s experienced immigration
agency officials were rejected by DHS leadership,” the
senators wrote. “Evidence indicates that their focus may
instead have been at least partly on achieving numerical
government-wide quotas which Congress had expressly
prohibited.” The letter is available at:
