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\n\n“While the specific cases in [this] lawsuit are unfortunate, they point to broader systemic issues in the American immigration apparatus. As Reason<\/em>‘s Eric Boehm reported<\/a> in September, “one of the major drivers of the immigration system’s mounting caseloads,” which involves “a backlog of nearly 7 million<\/a> applications and petitions,” comes down to “the government’s own, recently beefed-up immigration bureaucracy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Application for Employment Authorization\u2014the document at the heart of these plaintiffs’ woes and USCIS’s processing issues\u2014”was expanded from one page and 18 questions to seven pages and 61 questions,” writes<\/a> Boehm. Immigration restrictionists often say that hopeful migrants should come here “the legal way,” but the legal way is becoming more and more difficult to navigate. Immigrants who are already here and employed legally are finding themselves unable to continue working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the plaintiffs’ struggle is a reminder that the byzantine legal immigration system doesn’t just harm the migrants tangled in red tape\u2014it also harms the native-born Americans who could benefit from their skills and services in tough times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These Asylum Seekers Are Losing Jobs Because Bureaucrats Won’t Do Theirs<\/a><\/blockquote>