US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online (washingtonpost.com)

Bruce66423 writes: A government project to digitize immigration forms succeeded in enabling exactly one application to be completed and submitted after 10 years of work because of the botched software and implementation. The Washington Post reports: "This project, run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was originally supposed to cost a half-billion dollars and be finished in 2013. Instead, it’s now projected to reach up to $3.1 billion and be done nearly four years from now, putting in jeopardy efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration policies, handle immigrants already seeking citizenship and detect national security threats, according to documents and interviews with former and current federal officials."

Comments

Geez...

[cayenne8]

...for that kinda money, we could have lined the border with Mexico with a ton of land mines, and solved a lot of the illegal crossings problems.

Or even just put up some US military snipers and let them take practice on anyone stepping over the border...kill two birds with one stone so to speak...

:)

Anyway...the mine field would solve the shutting the border problem, and then we could handle the paper work till a proper computer system is put into place once you stop the flood of people jumping the border without "signing the guest book".

Re:They should have used the simplified form

[mlw4428]

You're either a bit racist, amigo, or have no clue on how immigration works. The political party has less to do with "check your box here" and more to do with popular conservatives/Republicans telling everyone that, for example, all Mexicans are rapists. Boy, I'm sure a lot of hardworking 2-3 job holding legal Mexican-American citizens are sure to vote Republican hearing that stuff and seeing the cheers coming from its party's members. I'm not sure if you're racist, but you're certainly not intelligent.