Posted on 12/30/2014 2:05:10 PM PST by jazusamo
As the year comes to an end, two disturbing stories illustrate how the Obama administration is deliberately compromising national security by drastically expanding a fraud-infested program that lets rich foreigners buy U.S. visas and losing track of 96% of the illegal immigrants recently ordered deported.
This is outrageous by any standards. In the first case, an obscure program known as EB-5 that lets wealthy foreign investors essentially buy their way into the United States has skyrocketed under Obama. The capital area’s conservative newspaper published a distressing story this week that reveals the visa program has mushroomed under Obama despite its history of fraud and congressional concerns about national security risks. Buy your way into the USA, says our commander-in-chief.
Since Obama took office the number of immigrants who have entered the U.S. legally via EB-5 has risen an astounding 700%, according to government figures cited in the article. Word has spread among rich foreign nationals because “the number of foreign citizens applying for the visas has grown even faster, from 853 in 2008 to 12,453 in 2014,” the story says. A former federal immigration official quoted in the article confirms that the Obama administration has been pushing the visa program via a “major promotion.” An overwhelming majority of the “investors” are from communist China.
As if this weren’t bad enough, a Houston news station investigating the recent influx of Central American illegal immigrants obtained downright scary information after duking out with the government for six months. Thousands of Central American families caught crossing the border between July 18 and October 28 had to be released on their own recognizance because there wasn’t enough detention space, according to the documents obtained by the Texas news station from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). All were ordered to appear before an immigration judge at a later date.
Here is where it gets really crazy; 96% of the removal orders occurred “in absentia,” which means the illegal immigrant, not surprisingly, didn’t show up for the hearing. So, essentially, the U.S. government deported a ghost—or the courtroom wall—in nearly all of these cases. That means the violators are still somewhere in the country and nobody really knows where. Here is one figure reluctantly provided by the EOIR; of the 15,614 families caught crossing the border, but not detained, 4,197 were ordered removed from the country in absentia. No wonder the government fought hard to keep the information from going public.
Our government trusts foreign nationals who have violated our laws by entering the country illegally, then releases them into our communities and trusts them to show up in court at a later day! This happens all the time, the EOIR admits in the news segment, but not in such large numbers. Typically the agency reports an annual 11 to 15% “in absentia” rate. Many Americans might agree that, after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, no foreign national in the country illegally should be released into the community and trusted to show up in court for a court hearing.
By design
Many people getting these investor visas don’t even live in the U.S. The Chinese only want them for two reasons: to get capital out of China, and for use if and when China boils over.
Also, many of these “investors” are wanted for criminal fraud or corruption in China.
I want to sell U.S. Citizenship outright in an annual auction of 1,000,000 people. Let’s say they pony up $1M each for the golden right to become an American. That’s $1T, or about 1/4th of the annual Federal Budget. And we get the best and brightest all countries have to offer. They come here and create jobs here.
We should cut taxes to current Americans by the exact amount raised. We don’t want to feed the leviathan.
(Effective background checks are required, of course.)
I want to sell U.S. Citizenship outright in an annual auction of 1,000,000 people. Let’s say they pony up $1M each for the golden right to become an American. That’s $1T, or about 1/4th of the annual Federal Budget. And we get the best and brightest all countries have to offer. They come here and create jobs here.
We should cut taxes to current Americans by the exact amount raised. We don’t want to feed the leviathan.
(Effective background checks are required, of course.)
I’m all for that as well with the exception that I would use the 1 T to pay down the national debt
If the illegals had showed up they would have been given lawyers paid tens of thousands of dollars at taxpayer expense to fight in court for years to gain them legal refugee status with all of it's perks.
Now they have failed to appear,they been given defaulted judgments for failure to appear on a felony charge and can be deported in the future immediately upon being arrested with no hand wringing or sob stories about abuse in the native countries.
Yes, and that’s quite the motivation for those Chinese businessmen because in China they execute people like them rather than imprison them.
Making America “no place.” It’s just an old continent like any other.
BUMP
“The Chinese only want them for two reasons: to get capital out of China, and for use if and when China boils over.”
You’re exactly right. The UK has a similar visa program, used mostly by Arab, Russian and Chinese oligarchs to hide their wealth in High Street banks and give shelter to their families.
You make a good point. There was an article a day or two ago that these illegals can now hire lawyers at taxpayer expense.
First its not a felony charge just an administrative order of deportation. Second you forget about Obama's pen, being the chief administrator he will just call all the previous orders of removal null and void. He will order that all cases must be re-adjudicated under his new program. These people are not going anywhere.
Who is going to stop him? The GOPe?
1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.
2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.
3) Use by terrorists.
4) Investment fraud by regional center.
5) Investment fraud by investors.
6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.
7) Illicit finance/money laundering.
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Obama's hand-picked henchman, USCIS' Leon Rodrigues, oversees EB-5 visas. Under Obama/Rodrigues' purview---EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:
NEED TO KNOW----ARE OBAMA/RODRIGUES SELLING US CITIZENSHIP TO:
<><> (a) MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS,
<><>(b) ISIS TERRORISTS,
<><> (c) FOREIGNERS FINANCING THE OVERTHROW OF THE US GOVT.
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Rodriguez's confirmation hearings revealed he was a board member of Casa Maryland---a Third World pressure group pushing for unlimited immigration on behalf of foreign governments. Rodrigues also has connections to foreign pressure groups across the nation.
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<><> Taxpayers demand Rodriguez, USCIS, Casa Maryland, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other foreign pressure groups, be investigated.
<><> Supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
<><> Taxpayers demand to know if govt factorum Leon Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, (1) are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt, (2) and/or are paid agents of foreign governments.
<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
..... the Obama administration has quietly begun preparing to issue millions of work authorization permits, suggesting the implementation of a large-scale executive amnesty may have already begun...
ACTION ALERT: USCIS is headed by Obama appointee---Leon Rodrigues--Obama's errand boy. Rodrigues is rubber- stamping undesirables from 144 countries into the US....including those from contagion-ridden Central America and Ebola- stricken countries.
During FY 2013, the DHS website showed US Border Patrol agents apprehended 112 immigrants from Guinea, 231 from Liberia and 145 immigrants from Sierra Leone,----three countries currently experiencing the most cases of Ebola.
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