Posted on 12/02/2015 12:56:06 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report Wednesday informing Congress that the Obama administration's immigration agencies "have limited capabilities to detect asylum fraud," and warning against a flawed system in which "an applicant whose asylum claim is fraudulent or who poses a threat to the United States is permitted to stay."
By law, asylum is supposed to be a somewhat rare and unique immigration status to obtain, and can only be based on "past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion."
But despite the narrow definition of the asylum status, there seem to be a lot of people counting on President Obama's administration to grant it to them. The GAO explained the number of asylum applications more than doubled between fiscal years 2010 (47,118 applications) and 2014 (108,152 applications). Due to the massive increase in applications, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services currently has a backlog of 106,121 pending asylum requests. ...
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No crap, Craplock.
And this is why the apologists use the phrase "these people are vetted for two years before being approved". There is no way in hell the USGov is vetting every person every day for a period of two years - it's a throw away line that the MSM and libs do not question when it's spoken - what they are really saying is that there is a two year backlog to process the requests, which may include a cursory background check.
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