Posted on 12/09/2015 11:17:58 AM PST by Hojczyk
The application form that San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik would have used to apply for her visa to enter the United States asks such questions as, âDo you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?â
âAre you a member or representative of a terrorist organization,â asks another question, to which the Pakistani citizen would have been required to check a âyesâ or ânoâ box.
âHave you ever or do you intend to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?â asks a third, along with similar questions relating to espionage, human trafficking, money laundering, prostitution and other offenses.
According to the State Department Malik, who with her U.S.-born husband Syed Farook killed 14 people in last Tuesdayâs attack at a social services center in San Bernardino, entered the U.S. in July 2014 on a K-1 fiancé(e) visa.
âAll of our visa screening process go through multiple layers of security, including fingerprints, face-to-face interviews, the full assortment of background screenings,â she said.
Asked whether she was satisfied that Malikâs application process would have followed the proper protocols she replied in the affirmative.
âHow can you say that with such assurance?â a reporter asked.
âBecause we stand behind our screening process for visas. What I will say is that the State Department remains committed to the security of the homeland. We â our process we continue to revise. We continue to look at this. But these are process that happens around the world every day in our U.S. embassies,â Trudeau said.
âAnd while we wonât get ahead of this investigation, the process that visa applicants go through continues to be improved,â she added. âIt was improved after 9/11 â something that we look at every day.â
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“Once his application was approved by DHS, the National Visa Center would have sent the petition to the relevant U.S. Embassy or Consulate â Islamabad in Malikâs case.”
So the US Embassy in Islamabad did not even check her address. Sounds like a thorough vetting to me. /s
One more comment:
Terrorist activities usually end in the terrorist’s death, so if she hasn’t suicide bombed herself in the past, she is in.
Reminds me of Rutger Hauer in “Nighthawks”:
Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt: You know, I never asked you what you do for a living.
Pam: Well... besides dancing a lot, I fly Pan Am from coast to coast. I’m Pam, flying ace. That’s actually a slight airline joke. I don’t really fly the planes. I’m just a stewardess. I flying waitress as they call it. How about you?
Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt: Me?
Pam: Yes. What do you do for a living?
Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt: [sarcastic tone] I’m an international terrorist wanted by the police in half the countries in Europe. And I am currently laying low for the moment.
Pam: Oh, sure!
These questions rank right up there with parents who ask their children “do you want me to spank you?” Seriously, what do the parents expect the child is going to answer? Dumbest parent question ever. This form equates to that. What answers do they expect they’re going to get? “Yes, I’m a terrorist and plan to come to your country to blow stuff up, please let me in anyway.”?????
Such questions aren’t for screening someone _out_, they’re for piling on criminal charges if arrested on a related charge. Should she have survived*, “lying on an immigration form” would have been one more reason to incarcerate her, even if a creative lawyer got her off the other charges.
(* - she wasn’t immediately killed in the shootout. I heard “there’s one in the back seat, still breathing” on police radio, apparently referring to her. Could have been a chance of survival & prosecution.)
"We ask people here if they're the enemy, and if they say 'yes', we shoot them."
Thank you!
Still think 0dunga isn't an ISLAMIST, America?
This is what you call “fully vetting” an immigrant.
[[Lie detectors tend to produce more false positives than negatives so the worst that could happen is someone who isnât a citizen could be excluded which isnât a real problem in my book.]]
For those we suspect of false positive results, we could waterboard them until we’re satisfied they are telling the truth or lying
If that fails- we could make them sit through an hour of Rosie O’Donnel rants or something
[[The only people we should want are those we are sure wonât be a cost to us whether through terrorism or tax payer burden.]]
We supposedly put them immediately on SS and Medicare for l ife-
I gather addresses, as we know them here, can be rather problematic in other countries. GPS was a boon to those areas, making it easy to literally give your “address” as latitude/longitude. When visiting Seoul once, I seriously wondered how they managed to apply an address to where I stayed.
My foreign-born wife left her apartment about a week before emmigrating here, so for her final visa interview she didn’t actually have an address (had stayed in, and checked out of, a couple hotels) to give. As soon as she got the paperwork finalized she immediately headed to the border.
Fully vetting an immigrant: "Are you a terrorist?"
Lol! The one time in his adult life that he tells the truth, and no one believes him.
I'd almost expect the Government drone to have stamped 'Approved' anyways.
Our “leaders” and their brain-dead federal “worker” minions are really, really malignant (and stupid).
Our government is so stupid to believe that this is proper immigration vetting.
The DS-160 visa application form should be sent to all 535 Senators and Congressmen.
This is what is so frustrating .. these liberal idiots who design these forms just automatically assume the terrorists will answer them truthfully. All the while, their Koran .. says “it’s okay to lie”. Hmmmmm ..??
Just who are the stupid people anyway ..??
The ones who designed the tests ..?? Or the ones who agreed to use them to investigate suspected terror sympathizers??
Well, doesn’t their religion prohibit them from lying...?
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