Posted on 04/09/2006 9:08:05 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
America's main immigration agency hired a suspected Iraqi spy and let him decide if asylum seekers from the Middle East should be allowed to stay, a former senior official has revealed.
Michael Maxwell, former chief investigator at US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the man made 180 rulings on asylum claims.
A check of those allowed in suggested that about two dozen should have faced questioning on national security issues.
"Ours is a system that rewards criminals, facilitates the movement of terrorists, [and] supports foreign agents," he told a congressional committee.
An agency spokesman said its main aim "continues to be preserving and enhancing the integrity of the immigration system". Mr Maxwell resigned from the agency using whistleblower protection legislation that allows US officials to speak out without penalty.
I saw Maxwell on Fox News this morning (4-9-06; 11AM Eastern hour).
Looks like hardly anything has changed in defending our borders from
infiltration since 9-11-2001.
Unless our civil servants are letting in the bad guys and then closely
tracking them VERY closely.
When the dust clears from the present situation in the Middle East we're going to be flooded with hundreds of thousands of "asylum seekers."
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