Posted on 08/22/2016 6:54:59 AM PDT by massmike
Gov. Paul LePage has pounced on the recent unsealing of court documents showing an Iranian refugee who resettled in Maine and later joined the terror group ISIS.
But the governor’s eagerness to use Adnan Fazeli’s radicalization here to rail against welfare benefits for refugees may have led him to run afoul of a federal law designed to protect the identities of welfare recipients and their families.
According to federal rules, the identities of benefit recipients are confidential — only law enforcement, immigration officials and state administrators are allowed to know who receives the benefits.
Those same officials, according to the law, “must adequately protect the information against unauthorized disclosure.”
“It’s concerning if that was indeed reported by Maine officials because federal law is clear that people’s confidentiality should be protected,” says Robyn Merrill, director for Maine Equal Justice Partners, an advocacy group for the poor.
Merrill says that Fazeli’s radicalization here is concerning, but she worries about the LePage administration’s zeal to politicize it.
“It seems as though this one particular circumstance is really being exploited and used as justification to deny help to a whole group of people,” she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.mpbn.net ...
Why was he allowed back into the United States. He should
have been stopped at the border. All he’ll do is teach
his fellow isis people how to kill in better ways.
Why was he allowed back into the United States. He should
have been stopped at the border. All he’ll do is teach
his fellow isis people how to kill in better ways.
OOPS, sorry for the double post, twitchy finger and mind in neutral.
Never mind he is a terrorist!!!!
“It’s concerning if that was indeed reported by Maine officials because federal law is clear that people’s confidentiality should be protected,” says Robyn Merrill, director for Maine Equal Justice Partners, an advocacy group for the poor.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.