No One’s Minding the Store [More Than 10% Immigrant-Document Fraud]

National Review ^ | December 17, 2013 | Ryan Lovelace

[Steelfish]

DECEMBER 17, 2014 No One’s Minding the Store The president’s immigration-amnesty program could result in a flood of fraud. By Ryan Lovelace

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials tasked with preventing fraud from taking place are instead being forced to do administrative work, according to the federal official who created and directed the division of the government responsible for preventing immigration fraud. Opponents and supporters of President Obama’s executive action on immigration say the Department of Homeland Security is not prepared to handle the fraud that will come from the implementation of amnesty.

The sheer volume of applications the department could receive — millions are expected — will make it difficult to weed out document fraud and instances of false representation.

Despite the increasing potential for fraud, Louis “Don” Crocetti Jr., the architect and former director of USCIS’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, says the Obama administration has stopped conducting fraud assessments entirely. The directorate’s primary responsibility is to determine whether individuals or organizations that file for immigration benefits pose a threat to the nation.

Crocetti, who built and led the directorate from 2004 until 2011, says he does not think USCIS has conducted one immigration-benefit fraud assessment in the past five years. Such assessments allow government officials to identify instances and causes of fraud and then determine possible corrective actions.

Yet fraud has been a persistent problem. In almost every assessment conducted during Crocetti’s time with the directorate, he says, a significant amount of fraud was discovered. According to Crocetti, the directorate routinely discovered that more than 10 percent of the items surveyed in its assessments was deemed fraudulent.

[willywill]

can anyone picture an immigration worker, either a person of color or a new York Marxist, looking over a persons paperwork and saying, “I’m sorry mr roderiquez, your not eligible for amnesty”?

[MNDude]

Might be useful to sign up for a few more identities and SSN’s.

[bluejean]

“The president’s immigration-amnesty program could result in a flood of fraud.”

The president’s immigration-amnesty program WILL result in a flood of fraud. Guaranteed.

[Mark17]

The president’s immigration-amnesty program WILL result in a flood of fraud. Guaranteed.

Gee whiz, I bet no body ever dreamed that could happen, huh? /s

[john mirse]

NOT deporting 5,000,000 illegals: Where is the Memorandum or Executive order that specifically says that 4,000,000 illegals will not be deported? I can’t find it. Thanks.