Watchdog urges continued shutdown of online immigration system

Fedscoop: The Department of Homeland Security shouldn’t reintroduce an electronic system for processing immigrant naturalizations that was plagued with problems after its original launch, the department’s inspector general urged Monday.

The DHS Office of the Inspector General issued a recommendation to “stop plans to reinstate use of the Electronic Immigration System” based on “an ongoing review which discovered alarming security concerns regarding inadequate background checks and other functionality problems with ELIS,” the office said in a release.

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