Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration has made progress in speeding up green card and visa processing, while noting that more people are becoming naturalized U.S. citizens than in previous years.

“Under the Trump administration, we’ve sped up our process and added integrity to the visa programs, to green cards, to all of that, but also more people are becoming naturalized under this administration than ever before. More people are becoming citizens,” Noem said on Fox News on November 12.

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The secretary’s remarks come as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) faces a record 11.3 million pending applications, the largest immigration backlog in its history. Recent agency data from January through March shows that processing times for

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