More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship

[BlueInPhilly]

Source: Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, 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.

DHS said in an emailed statement that an initial review of these cases suggest that some of the individuals may have ultimately qualified for citizenship, and that the lack of digital fingerprint records does not necessarily mean they committed fraud.

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.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/more-than-800-immigrants-mistakenly-granted-citizenship/2016/09/19/28151e92-7e6a-11e6-ad0e-ab0d12c779b1_story.html

[EL34x4]

1. And Trump's week gets better and better.

Good grief, it's only Monday.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. More fodder for the talking yam.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. You would think this just happened...it is from an audit...

However, the report did not specify whether the deportation orders were security-related or were issued for a variety of other potential reasons, such as overstaying travel visas.

The AP obtained a statement from DHS about the report, which noted that fingerprint records weren't consistently compiled until 2010:

"Potentially Ineligible Individuals Have Been Granted U.S. Citizenship Because of Incomplete Fingerprint Records." The stated purpose of the audit (conducted between July 2014 and December 2015) was to determine whether records (including fingerprints) were being thoroughly assessed during the process of naturalizing potential citizens process. According to DHS findings, the audit identified 858 individuals improperly approved for naturalization due to an "information gap" between paper and digitized records (primarily involving fingerprints):

more...snip....

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 agency responsible for finding and deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, didn't consistently add digital fingerprint records of immigrants whom agents encountered until 2010.

[BlueInPhilly]

4. This was on GWBush

And Obama cleaned it up

[SunSeeker]

5. Then say that as a comment to the OP, as you are allowed to do in LBN.

Don't just relay what the MSM says when it is misleading. In particular, your comment should have included what is in post #3.