HMM: Senate Hearing Exposes Billion-Dollar Amnesty Slush Fund and Other USCIS Improprieties. “USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] has been hoarding fees paid by legal immigrants to subsidize the planned new executive amnesty for an estimated five million illegal aliens and failing to screen applicants adequately to prevent criminal aliens from obtaining benefits. In addition, the agency has created a pathway to citizenship for many of these illegal aliens.”