NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service is changing the procedures it uses to screen immigrants before granting them citizenship to ensure that convicted felons and other criminals do not get through. Republicans had charged before the election that the Clinton administration was rushing through thousands of citizenships to boost the voter rolls with new immigrants who might vote Democratic. As a result of the rush, several cases of convicted felons being granted citizenship by mistake were uncovered.
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