Probe reveals feds pressuring agents to rush immigrant visas – even if fraud is feared
Thank you both and there is no “jumping in”. What you posted is the REASON for this thread. It takes eyes and ears and everybody who cares.
Greg, matter of fact, I think I tagged the thread you posted and intended to post it here, but got sidetracked and might not have done it at all. So that is why we need everyone. This is an open thread. No ‘designated’ posters. Just Patriots who love this country enough to pay attention.
And LucyT, always appreciate everything you do. But you know that.
From the article:
Internal communications provided to The Daily indicate that the new leadership seemed to fundamentally clash with career agency employees over when to afford the benefit of the doubt, culminating in a whistle-blower investigation into a senior appointee and, ultimately, the agency-wide inspector general inquiry that produced the report.
“We recognize their right to interpret things as liberally as possible, but you still have to follow the law,” said one high-ranking official who was unhappy with the current push.
At least five agency veterans seen as being too tough on applicants were either demoted, or given the choice between a demotion or a relocation from Southern California — where their families were — to San Francisco and Nebraska, according to sources and letters of reassignment provided to The Daily.
Those kind of threats have caused lower-level employees to fall in line, sources said.
“People are afraid,” said one longtime manager, who requested anonymity for fear of being fired. “Integrity only carries people so far because they’ve got to pay the rent.”
A rank-and-file officer who was not involved in the investigation claimed he was demoted to working on less technical cases because he had a high denial rate. “They don’t reprimand you, they just move you,” he said.
“They attempted to basically get me to come into line and approve a bunch of cases. And I just wouldn’t compromise myself because the approvals they ordered, they weren’t in line with the laws,” said the officer.
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This is chilling.
Friend of mine truly believes we have had a coup d’état.
Nope. See. This:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2828217/posts
Probe reveals feds pressuring agents to rush immigrant visas – even if fraud is feared
The Daily ^ | January 3, 2012 | Sarah Ryley
Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:49:20 PM by OddLane
Higher-ups within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are pressuring rank-and-file officers to rubber-stamp immigrants’ visa applications, sometimes against the officers’ will, according to a Homeland Security report and internal documents exclusively obtained by The Daily.
A 40-page report, drafted by the Office of Inspector General in September but not publicly released, details the immense pressure immigration service officers are under to approve visa applications quickly, sometimes while overlooking concerns about fraud, eligibility or security.
One-quarter of the 254 officers surveyed said they have been pressured to approve questionable cases, sometimes “against their will.”
The report does not call out any particular officials and indicates that the agency has had a problem with valuing quantity over quality since at least the 1980s.
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was what I read.
Then got angry about wnd suddenly discovering jamat al fuqra which we have documented here for three years as if it is their exclusive when I know stuff has been taken from these threads and the hard work of Freepers who pored over miles of research never, ever given credit.
They do the same to New Zeal and it ticks me off no end.
/end rant.