Immi­grants becom­ing cit­i­zens at break­neck speed as elec­tion approach­es: report

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is pro­cess­ing U.S. cit­i­zen­ship appli­ca­tions at its fastest pace in decades, with thou­sands of immi­grants becom­ing new­ly mint­ed cit­i­zens every week, pos­si­bly help­ing sway the result of November’s election.The U.S. Cit­i­zen­ship and Immi­gra­tion Ser­vices (USIS) is tak­ing an aver­age of 4.9 months to process nat­u­ral­iza­tion appli­ca­tions in the first nine months of the cur­rent fis­cal year, a pace not seen since 2013 and 2014, accord­ing to a report from the New York Times.The under five-month aver­age pro­cess­ing time is a far cry from that pace set just three years ago, when it took rough­ly 11.5 months for author­i­ties to process a nat­u­ral­iza­tion application.BIDEN DHS REVEALS 50 MIGRANTS STILL AT LARGE AS ISIS-AFFILIATED …