Interior enforcement just as important as Border Security
Posted by E Van Staaveren on Tue, 11/29/2016
Two very good articles newly posted on the internet show that while “border security” gets a lot of publicity, it is not the only major immigration problem we have. The public needs to know more about administrative failures in dealing with abuses of the visa systems, and shoddy to no examination of persons who attempt to immigrate legally.
Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies, has written Immigration 'Law and Order' Starts at State Department; Trump admin can crack down on illegal immigration and protect Americans by reforming visa programs.
From Lifezette, November 22, 2016, here’s an extract:
“Team Trump will have a laundry list of urgent immigration-related tasks at Foggy Bottom, including action on visas and passports, not to mention refugees. The biggest challenge for the incoming appointed leadership will be overcoming the senior career managers' obliviousness to the impact of key policies on American communities (as opposed to the travel industry or the clients of immigration lawyers) and their clear preference for facilitating travel over preventing unqualified or dangerous foreigners from entering.
“Under the Obama administration, the annual number of temporary visas issued has gone up by more than 5 million — an increase of 47 percent, from 5.8 million issued in 2009 to 10.9 million in 2015, according to the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs. This happened even as more countries were added to the Visa Waiver Program, which lets citizens of certain countries enter without a visa.
“Too many of these visas were mistakes. DHS reports that in 2015, more than 500,000 people who came in as short-term temporary visitors did not go home as required, not counting an unknown additional number of student or work visa overstayers. These cases are thought to represent about 40 percent of the total population of illegal aliens. Building a wall will not keep them out; that's the job of the State Department.”
Read the entire article here.
Michael Cutler, a former INS supervisor, has also written an excellent article about the many critical deficiencies in admission of immigrants: DHS Loses Thousands Of 'Keys To The Kingdom’ and issues some “keys” to the wrong people.
As Cutler explains, the article is “predicated on a truly disturbing report issued by the Office of the Inspector General (Internal Affairs) for the DHS about lack of integrity to the process by which Alien Registration Cards (Green Cards) were prepared and sent to aliens who had been granted lawful immigration status. … The bearer of a Green Card is permitted to legally enter the United States though our 325 ports of entry. …”
Excerpts from the article:
“… the OIG press release noted that ‘In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States.’ Yet efforts to flag those cards at ports of entry through the computer system employed by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) Inspectors, have not been consistently implemented. Consequently, aliens improperly issued those cards may still be able to use them to enter the United States. …”
“These problems are not new but are decades old and have been getting increasingly worse as USCIS is forced to adjudicate a growing avalanche of applications for various immigration benefits including applications filed by aliens for political asylum, lawful immigrant status and even United States citizenship. …”
“Aliens who seek to naturalize are supposed to be subjected to a thorough investigation to determine if they possess, ‘Good Moral Character.’ However, those investigations are rarely, if ever conducted. Indeed, even face-to-face interviews of these applicants have often been dispensed with. …”
“Donald Trump has promised to ‘Drain the Swamp’ as he referred to the filth and corruption of our current political system. All Americans should be cheering him on. However, he must also turn his attention to another ‘swamp’ the Department of Homeland Security or, as I have come to refer to it, the ‘Department of Homeland Surrender,’ especially where all of the immigration components of that horrifically overwhelmed and inept agency are concerned.”
Read the entire article here.
