Posted on 09/23/2016 1:23:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yesterday news broke Department of Homeland Security officials are encouraging employees to work expensive overtime hours to push through as many U.S. citizenship applications as possible before the November election.
An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday.
The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the election year.”
“The Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,” reads the email, which was disclosed to FoxNews.com by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
“If you have cases in this category or other pending, you are encouraged to take advantage of the OT if you can,” the email continues. “This will be an opportunity to move your pending naturalization cases. If you have not volunteered for OT, please consider and let me know if you are interested.”
Now, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is accusing the Department of playing politics and is warning the move puts national security at risk.
"Your department seems intent on approving as many naturalization cases as quickly as possible at a time when it should instead be putting on the brakes and reviewing past adjudications, especially in light of this week’s Office of Inspector General report that found USCIS granted U.S. citizenship to at least 858 individuals from “special interest” countries (i.e. countries that are of concern to the national security of the United States) or countries with high rates of immigration fraud, who had final deportation orders under another identity," Grassley said in a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. "Unfortunately, we have been down this road before. In the year preceding the 1996 presidential election the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the predecessor agency to USCIS, established the notorious “Citizenship USA” (CUSA) initiative. Previously, the INS had been granting citizenship to 300,000 to 400,000 aliens per year, but under CUSA that increased to 1.1 million cases. The apparent push to naturalize as many aliens as possible in time for them to vote in the election resulted in cut corners that endangered national security and public safety."
"We sincerely hope history is not repeating itself," he continued. "Please explain what you are doing or will do to reassure adjudicators that naturalization applications should not be rushed for inappropriate political reasons. Please also explain what steps you are taking or will take to assure our Committees and the American people that background and fingerprint checks will not be weakened, ignored, or completely eliminated."
The election is 45 days away and some states have already started early voting.
But all the proper palms have been greased. They can’t stop it now!
Hmmmmm ..??
It’s way too late to register to vote in many states.
They’re going to have to do a lot more work in order to get this PHONEY forms into the count.
There are some people who take elections seriously; I’m praying there are enough of them to mitigate any damage.
We’re to be good drones and just keep voting.
Massive crime, corruption and treason at the very highest levels of government.
Well then stop them, Grassley!!!
Obama doesn’t give a damn about national security. He wants to help Muslims invade the country.
About 2000 suspected harmful people were given citizenship by mistake so maybe DHS should be working overtime to find them, revoke their invalid citizenship and deport them, instead of trying to rig elections even more than they’ve already done the last 9 years, seeding Republican areas with ‘migrants’.
For our info naturalized citizen can have their naturalization revoked. If they bad guys, you strip them of US citizenship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_citizens_of_the_United_States
Anyone who remembers this fiasco will also remember the investigation into this matter tracked exactly like the IRS, Benghazi and E-mail investigations.
The Clinton administration lost/hid records, principal witnesses took the 5th amendment. They ran out the election and no one was terminated.
And guess who was the deputy director of the INS at the time? Yep Eric Holder.
The Clinton's have been riding and winning the big belt buckle in this rodeo for years.
That is true and they should be. The latest example is that muslim from Afghanistian who blew up those bombs in NY and NJ a few days ago.
Perhaps this will be brought up at the debate?
Congress must shut this all down NOW!!!
Yes, Congress must shut it down without delay.
Congress should stop him. It’s a huge abuse of power. It’s time to
Light up their phone lines and fill their inboxes ASAP
No kidding, Chuck. Putting our security at risk is the goal.
bkmk
I agree. That’s why I’m adding this to the Digging Deep archive:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?page=2230
Would you like an infrequent ping to link-clusters from the archive?
The opposite of ‘high volume’ pings. Weeks can go by without a ping. Even at a time like this, I rarely ping more than once a day.
“They can’t stop it now!”
One more specific issue to add to the prayer lists. We must not let this happen.
Grassley is a statesman. He was a major part of that brave effort to expose IRS tyranny — paved the way for others to think critically of them.
And recently, he was part of the Internet Giveaway Hearing which had been invisible up until recent days.
Grassley’s been on top of that for two years now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/icann/index?tab=articles
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