[Excerpt] On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I am writing to urge conferees to the FY 2012 Homeland Security appropriations bills to support the longstanding prohibitions against the use of OMB Circular A-76 privatization process in the Coast Guard's National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) and on certain positions in the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) related to the investigation and adjudication of immigration rights and benefits.