华盛顿时报评价栏解释制卡缓慢的原因

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"In mid-June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ contract ended with the company that had been printing these documents. Production was slated to be insourced, but ‘the agency’s financial situation,’ USCIS said Thursday, prompted a hiring freeze that required it to ratchet down printing."

"Of the two facilities where these credentials were printed, one, in Corbin, Ky., shut down production three weeks ago. The other facility, in Lee’s Summit, Mo., appears to be operating at reduced capacity."

"The agency said it had planned to escalate printing but that it 'cannot speculate on future projections of processing times.' In the event of furloughs — which the agency has threatened if it does not get a $1.2 billion loan from Congress — 'all agency operations will be affected.' "