Please tell me this is true, even though it's a leak.

https://news.yahoo.com/u-immigration-agency-slash-overseas-presence-155215323.html

By Yeganeh Torbati (Citizen?) and (((Mica Rosenberg)))

(((WASHINGTON/NEW YORK))) (Reuters) - The U.S. immigration agency plans to significantly reduce its presence abroad,

>according to an internal e-mail seen by Reuters and current and former U.S. officials, in an effort to shift resources to domestic offices that took some career officials by surprise.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, currently operates 23 offices overseas, scattered across Latin America, Europe and Asia.

The move comes as the Trump administration has worked in the past two years to limit both legal and illegal immigration with cuts to the U.S. refugee program and USCIS stepping up vetting of visa applications.

The USCIS offices carry out a number of services…, processing refugee applications. USCIS officers abroad also look for fraud in visa applications.

On Monday, senior USCIS officials told employees within the agency's Refugee Asylum and International Operations division that the agency had

>decided to close its overseas posts, one current and one former official said.

The closures will happen over the next year and some of the offices' tasks likely will be shifted to the State Department, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. (((LEAKS)))

USCIS Director Francis Cissna sent a message on Tuesday to all agency employees saying the agency is preparing for discussions that would lead to shifting much of its international workload to its U.S. offices for domestic processing, as well as to U.S. embassies and consulates abroad.

>One of the responsibilities of the overseas offices is to help process refugee applications. But the Trump administration's reduction of refugee admissions has reduced that part of the offices' workload.

(Winning, but we need to send teh refugees back hme, especially to Somolia)

>The administration also has put in place new barriers for asylum seekers, barring citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the United States, and pushing new rules that would make it harder for low-income people to become permanent American residents.