USCIS Stats Show Where The Administration's Focus Is

Pore over it and you can see where the administration's real focus is: expediting employment documents for migrants who have no right to be here, not accommodating aliens doing it "The right way" or on helping American workers find jobs.

USCIS publishes a quarterly document captioned "Number of Service-Wide Forms by Quarter, Form Status, and Processing Time", which is basically a running tally of the applications the agency has received and completed, and the number that remain pending.

At the end of the third quarter of FY 2019, for example, it shows that USCIS had about 330,000 pending asylum applications, about 753,000 pending employment authorization applications, more than 1.5 million Petitions for Alien Relative, and around 35,000 Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers.

One year later, at the end of the third quarter of FY 2020, the number of asylum applications waiting for adjudication sat near 374,000, there were about 604,000 employment authorization applications, about 1.45 million immediate relative petitions, and just over 47,000 pending I-140s for alien workers.

Not surprisingly, by the end of the third quarter of FY 2022, USCIS was sitting on more than 505,000 pending asylum applications and more than 1.5 million applications for employment authorization.

Fast forward a year and three months and here's what USCIS's pending applications looked like at the end of FY 2023: 1.022 million pending asylum applications; 1.934 million petitions for alien relatives; 61,000 I-140s; and 777,223 "All other" pending employment-authorization applications.

The Biden administration has abandoned that concept, that is at the core of immigration law, in favor of expediting work cards for parolees, regardless of the effect that it has on American workers, and on those aliens trying to come here "The right way". 

https://cis.org/Arthur/USCIS-Stats-Show-Where-Administrations-Focus