Posted on 09/19/2016 7:27:01 AM PDT by Perseverando
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.
The gap was created because older, paper records were never added to fingerprint databases created by both the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service and the FBI in the 1990s. ICE, the DHS
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It was NO mistake.
Both. Just depends on the stuff.
Sure it was a mistake.
Too many atrocities to be an accident.
The agents of Islamic murdering must be allowed to melt into the populace, by orders from L4B to his regime.
I should add, barry has high hopes for them ...
Their citizenship can be revoked and they can be deported. We know who they are. Were they denaturalized and deported? That is an important unanswered question here. Mistakes happen, sure, and no sweat trying to prevent them. But too, what does the government do when if finds a mistake? Shrug?
While possibly a mistake from some people’s point of view, it was definitely intentional by the rats in our gubmint buraucracy.
Yep, he beat me by 2 1/2 minutes.
Exactly. It was no mistake. They did it on purpose.
The headline is very misleading. There are at least 1800 such naturalized citizens in the face of deportation orders - and, no, this is not a “mistake”.
That granted in error can be revoked. Let’s hope a President Trump corrects this.
Yes, we can't expect Odumbo to correct the "mistake"
I’m sure our government after realizing their mistake has corrected this and rescinded their faulty citizenship...../s
Mistakes do not favor the "bad person". It's ridiculous to say they are citizens.
Did remove same Citizenship when they discovered the Mistake(LOL) ?
Not a mistake.
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