That's right: Your anti-immigrant president just oversaw the highest approval of citizenship applications in 5 years.https://t.co/8Do3MEnboK
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) June 3, 2019
The “criticism” comes from Democrats who want to allow illegal aliens to pour in and conflate legal immigrants with illegal aliens.
Via Fox News:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services set a five-year high in 2018 for the number of people who took the oath of citizenship – despite heated criticism from Democrats about the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
That criticism largely centers on President Trump’s immigration rhetoric, his push for a border wall and policies cracking down on asylum applications and more. But according to a report released late last week by USCIS, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, the administration has processed citizenship applications at a rapid clip.
USCIS processed just under 850,000 naturalization forms in 2018 and swore in almost 757,000 people as new citizens. The number of new citizens marked a 6 percent increase from 2017 and a 16 percent rise from 2014 when just over 653,000 people became U.S. citizens.
“In the last fiscal year, USCIS adjudicated more than eight million requests for immigration benefits, which is a 28 percent increase over the last five fiscal years,” USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna said in a statement. “USCIS also helped make the American dream become a reality for 757,000 new citizens, a five year high in new oaths of citizenship.”