Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
DHS spends $1B to digitize, only 1 immigration form available online
A Department of Homeland Security agency spent more than $1 billion
in taxpayer money to digitize immigration paperwork -- and after a
decade of work, only has managed to put one document online. The Washington Post reported
Monday that officials at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
still are only able to offer a single form -- out of nearly 100 -- for
online applications, and make a single fee payable electronically. All other forms can still only be filed with paper. The report sheds light on a struggling effort that not only has
frustrated immigrant applicants but raises national security concerns
and could put at risk any effort to overhaul immigration policies. The project was originally supposed to be done in 2013, for a half-billion-dollar price tag...more
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