Posted on 08/09/2017 3:00:11 PM PDT by gattaca
The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas.
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Greg Meeks of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. These public officials have at one time or another employed one of three Pakistani Muslim brothers or their family and friends caught up in a criminal theft and hacking probe of the House Democrats' information security systems. In all, IT worker Imran Awan and his family and friends hoovered up an estimated $4 million in government funds over a period of 13 years.
For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case -- most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000.
Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Rep. Meeks. This reeks.
My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers -- like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT?
And if they're not H-1Bs, how exactly did Awan and company get here, when did they get here, and who brought them over here and why?
These are simple questions. Given that these foreign IT workers now under investigation were paid for with our tax dollars, Americans deserve to know their path to the public trough. This is especially true when so many members of Congress in both parties continue to clamor for expanding foreign guest-worker programs like H-1B and refuse to enact freezes on corrupted visa programs exploited by foreign tourists (B visas), students (F-1 visas) and workers (H visas) acting in bad faith.
Moreover, U.S. tech workers have grown increasingly vocal about being forced to train underqualified, shoddily vetted foreign replacements before getting pink-slipped -- and increasingly alarmed at their access to sensitive personal, financial and health data.
Awan first landed a job with former Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler as an "information technology director" in 2004 at the ripe age of 24 or 25. His younger brother, Jamal, is reportedly only 23 years old, yet has pulled in a salary of nearly $160,000 a year since 2014 (when he was 20!) as an information technology worker for Democrat Rep. Julia Brownley. That's 3.1 times greater than the median salary for a House IT worker, according to InsideGov.
Who sponsored these young foreign techies and chose them to do work in our nation's capital doing a job that countless young Americans are qualified to do? If not H-1B, did they arrive first as students on foreign visas (who are supposed to return home after their course of study), then game the system to work through the cheap-labor loopholes, such as the Optional Practical Training program? Or did they switch visa categories? Did they pull strings through their well-connected Democratic employers?
The communications official in Rep. Castro's office, which employed Imran's brother, Jamal, responded that she would "touch base with some colleagues" and keep me posted. No word since. The others didn't bother to answer at all, nor did they respond when I followed up last week.
As for defiant Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who only fired Awan after his arrest two weeks ago, it's apparently un-American to question how foreign criminal suspects got to America and stayed here. Schultz last week cited "racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had" to deflect from her eyebrow-raising handling of the matter, which now involves smashed hard drives seized from Awan's home by the FBI.
The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas. But it shouldn't take a Senate demand letter to penetrate the Dems' partisan protectionism. We paid the salaries of their suspect foreign IT minions. They answer to us.
I fully expect that all records relating to the Awan family will be destroyed by democrats before they’ll ever give them to anyone.
Then the Republicans will just shrug and say oh well, move along.
The Awans and friends were consultants, not employees.
An IT consultant would make more than an IT employee.
It is my understanding that the Awans were hired and paid by each House member\person who used their services.
I was concerned about the same thing.
Is the DHS full of Obama traitors who will be those charged with compiling this information for Grassley, or will they be MAGA Americans?
Thanks for posting. A good piece by Michelle Malkin. I haven’t read anything by her in a while.
I’d wager Snowden picked up on this Awan crap by 2013.
So sick to death of all these self serving traitors in Washington.
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Grassier is starting at precisely the correct start point- how they got here and who sponsored their tenure here
In related stories, we can get a special counsel to investigate a sitting president in about 30 minutes, while the actual lawbreakers hide, bury, and destroy evidence for three or four years. Reference Hillary’s destruction and unauthorized disseminating of classified info.
“In related stories, we can get a special counsel to investigate a sitting president in about 30 minutes”
Sucks doesn’t it. For these guys to do their jobs they had to have rights to Network Resources, that means e-mailboxes
home directories etc. If they had these rights to the Rats there is a good chance they had them for the repubs too. So they start poking around McConell’s or Cruz’s home directory what do you think they do with they find?
Democrats continue to screw over the American worker.
That's my understanding as well. It's been a very long time since I worked on the Hill, but shared employees are nothing new. I never had occasion to hire one or to work with one, so I don't have a feel for the situation. My impression, however, is that once shared employees are "in the system," Members' offices are likely to assume that they were vetted at the time of hiring by the sponsoring office. A chief of staff, for example, is having a tech problem that goes beyond the jack-of-all-trades guy in his office. Nor is he satisfied with the generic help desk maintained by the House or Senate. He calls around. He's referred to a shared employee arrangement, he's told by other offices that "these guys are great," he runs his problem by them and is satisfied with the answer, and before you know it, he's allocating $10,000 a year (or whatever) from his Member's clerk hire account as a retainer for their services. He will naturally assume that due diligence has already been done, since the consultants are already an established presence.
The question is who brought them in the door to begin with, and who was supposed to be monitoring them on a regular basis. The House security office has some 'splainin' to do. I hear gossip from time to time that suggests that Congress generally is abysmal with regard to electronic security measures. A LOT of people, for example, knew about Hillary's homebrew server while she was Secretary of State, but no one did anything. They didn't want to make her mad.
Yes, I fear you are correct. ~ sigh ~
speaking of Hillary’s home brew server, then check out the note about the Awan’s thin client (zerohedge reporting what daily caller reported.
Actually, this whole article should brought back up to the surface.
which means we no longer have a country and is a matter of time before the world shell game falls, they will use war etc to keep the peoples expectations good of having a future, but between climate change, economic and religious based wars and basically the reactions to the human sin nature, the outcome is bleak without a vision of a higher pasture.., instead man thinks spreading across the universe like planet killing roaches is the plan...Got Jesus?
I hate to tell you but not all self serving traitors are in Washington.
The bulk of them are in the American higher education bureaucracy. They are required to inform the Federal Government when a foreign student stops attending classes, drops out, fails, or withdraws. Right, the biggest bastion of leftist thought is going to follow the law and turn in those poor foreign students who America “owes” because we are the root source of all evil past, present, and future, in the world.
flr
“”Schultz last week cited “racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had””
If people of this same mentality had their way, I would expect that before too long they will want all references to the 19 terrorists on 9/11/01 wiped from the records. If this country had been in as bad shape then (PC) as it is now, those references would never have made it into print!
Debbie - what is it called when we all think you have a horrible head of hair? Got a label for that?
I heard on the Andrea Shea King show tonight that according to Charles Ortel, Hillary’s email case is beyond the five year statute of limitations.
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