Immigration officials don’t usually check social media posts as part of their background checks, according to the newspaper. If that is confirmed, it would mark the most lethal such attack on USA soil since September 11, 2001. He didn’t specify what changes were going to be made. They believe that was when she was radicalised.
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“We have not commented on the items, or whether they are case-related, due to the ongoing investigation”, Eimiller said, responding to a media report that the objects were not tied the crimes under investigation.
The K-1 visa program is one of the lowest visa types handled by the authorities.
Much of the focus is on rooting out marriage fraud. A couple must show they’ve physically seen each other within the last two years, unless assembly in person would break “rigorous and long-established customs” or cause an “extreme adversity”. And female applicants are generally subject to less scrutiny than male applicants. And we won’t bother checking their social media because that’s just… inappropriate. Specifically, he was asked whether social media activity should be considered in the vetting process.
She also had her fingerprints checked against other global databases, however no red flags were allegedly raised at the time of the investigation, the Times reported.
“In cases where those lists do not strike, there is nothing that differentiates them from folks we’d love to welcome to this state”.
Malik was vetted by three separate American agencies before entering the country. First, her name was assessed by Homeland Security against law enforcement and national security databases. After coming to the USA and formally marrying Farook here, she applied for her green card and received another round of criminal and security checks. “No one knows her more than me”. “She knew what was right and what was wrong”, Fehda said. In a brief telephone interview, her sister Fehda Malik said that Tashfeen was not an extremist, and she rejected the allegations against her sister. Records show her visa was approved the day after the interview and she traveled to the U.S.in July 2014.
“The review has been ordered and we need to look at whether there are means, and whether we should be, and how we can do it”, he said. It could be factual questions not necessarily derogatory about the application.
Finally, a State Department official told yet another panel the screening process that allowed Malik into the US, where she paired with Farook to commit a massacre went smoothly and by the book.
Tashfeen faced three extensive national security and criminal background screenings. But immigration officials do not routinely review social media as part of their background checks, and there is a debate inside the Department of Homeland Security over whether it is even appropriate to do so. The divers pulled items from the murky waters of the lake, which they have been scouring since Thursday.
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Authorities hope to recover any digital devices from the lake.
