“They are intentionally letting people in this country who are unsafe”.
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The report noted that the department has concurred with its recommendations and has begun implementing corrective actions.
At least 858 people that had been ordered deported or removed under another name were improperly granted U.S. citizenship due to a failure to maintain adequate fingerprint records, according to a new report. Under his immigration reform, Trump promises to return all undocumented immigrants to their homelands, beef up the consequences for those staying in the USA after their visas expire and put a complete end birthright citizenship – the automatic granting of citizenship to children born in the US regardless of their parent’s immigration statuses.
More than 800 immigrants from countries posing a national security threat are legally calling the United States home at the government’s expense after they were mistakenly granted citizenship.
Immigration fraud has long plagued officials. The report did not identify those countries.
John Roth, inspector general for DHS, said that 315,000 sets of fingerprints are missing from databases for immigrants who have pending deportation notices or who are fugitive criminals.
The lack of digital fingerprint records does not necessarily mean the immigrants committed fraud, according to the DHS.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not reviewed about 148,000 of those immigrants’ files to add fingerprints to the digital record.
Roth’s report said federal prosecutors have accepted two criminal cases that led to the immigrants being stripped of their citizenship.
In three of those cases, the report found, individuals were able to obtain credentials to conduct security-sensitive work at commercial airports or maritime facilities and vessels.
Gheen, whose organization has been integral to the dissemination of information about the dangers of amnesty for illegal aliens, and opposes that through advocacy for secure borders, employer crackdowns, removing incentives for being illegal and enforcement of existing laws, said Washington’s establishment, in both parties, is responsible for the problem.
“In an attempt to justify this astounding discrepancy, the Obama administration and congressional Democratic leadership continue to maintain that the us should not consider a refugee’s religion in deciding whether to grant refugee status”, the ACLJ said in June.
Incredibly, DHS officials seem to be as confused as anyone about the large number of illegal immigrants from deportation lists who have managed to settle in the U.S. illegally.
“Our enemies are allowed to walk freely among us”, he said.
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After the attacks, President Obama signed legislation that tightened visa waivers to make it harder for travelers to enter the United States from Europe if they had dual citizenship from Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria, or had visited one of those countries in the previous five years.
