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Under Trump, citizenship and visa agency focuses on fraud

by Sophia TareenElliot Spagat
| November 1, 2020 7:27 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the agency handling citizenship and visa applications was surprised when he faced blowback for cutting a reference to the U.S. being a “nation of immigrants” in its mission statement. The son of a Peruvian immigrant added language about “protecting Americans” instead.

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