Posted on 09/19/2016 7:24:29 AM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants who had pending deportation orders from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren't caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases.
The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but Inspector General John Roth's auditors said they were all from "special interest countries" — those that present a national security concern for the United States — or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration fraud. The report did not identify those countries.
In an emailed statement, the Department of Homeland Security said the findings reflect what has long been a problem for immigration officials — old paper-based records containing fingerprint information that can't be searched electronically. DHS says immigration officials are in the process of uploading these files and that officials will review "every file" identified as a case of possible fraud.
DHS officials identified an additional 953 people who had been naturalized despite outstanding deportation orders, though auditors couldn't determine if those immigrants had digital fingerprints on file or not.
Roth's report said fingerprints are missing from federal databases for as many as 315,000 immigrants with final deportation orders or who are fugitive criminals. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not reviewed about 148,000 of those immigrants' files to add fingerprints to the digital record.
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Is this the report they’ve been stalling the release of?
With over 2 million gov employees, they can’t find time to scan some fingerprints over to electronic. Must have been too busy removing the words islamic, jihad, allah etc from 100s of 1000s of pages of training materials.
Pray and Fight for America.
Immigration specialists are playing the US govt the way that Trump played the press.
We are being punked every day.
Did the bureaucrats at least capture fingerprints as part of the process? Priority manhunt is surely underway. /dripping sarc
Mistakenly, my foot!
Why is it that no one ever gets “mistakenly” kicked out?
How convenient that this negligence should occur before a major election.
Simple solution — reverse the action, idiots!! Then fire everyone responsible and make it impossible for them to hold public office or work in the media anywhere in the US.
This is no mistake.
There is no mistake. This is intentional.
Just like Obama’s ACORN activists were instructing unqualified people how to lie on applications for loans, these sleeper cells are being coached on ways to get legal documents after sneaking into the country.
But is was just an honest mistake! /heavy sarc
Seems our government has hired people who are not interested to learn their jobs and don’t give a rip for this country, except for their employment checks. I say
even though they belong to the federal union, remove them
from the government payroll.
Good to know, I was unsure if that was the case or not.
There are no mistakes with this bunch when it comes to immigration.
The Trump campaign needs to be informed of this.
I agree, and hopefully Trump will do just that. Actually I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t. He can start with that despicable Khan citing his beliefs in Sharia Law.
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