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Republican legislators last year accused Democrats of racing prospective citizens through the application process to increase Democratic votes in that fall's congressional elections. The Republicans alleged that the INS was not properly checking fingerprints or prior criminal records of the applicants.
The INS states that "an unprecedented backlog" of citizen requests in 1996, numbering about 1.2 million, did not allow the agency to scrutinize applicants as closely as the agency would have liked.
In early August, a federal panel, empowered with a mandate for INS reform, instead recommended the abolishment of the agency.
In an interview, Rob Koon, an INS spokesperson, says the future of the agency depends largely on the will of the Clinton administration.
Still, Koon says he thinks the INS "can do the job as we are currently structured."