Feds process immigration paperwork despite missing background check info

[rainbow4321]

Investigation was started after citizenship was granted to a "suspected terrorist" with no one checking his background information in 2002


http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Other_US_Govermnent/Missing_Files.html

About 30,000 applications from immigrants seeking citizenship were processed by the government even though thousands of background files used to determine eligibility were missing, congressional investigators found.

According to the GAO, 14 Citizenship and Immigration Services offices were missing 110,000 so-called alien files, or A-files. Such files contain applications and other documents of some noncitizens and serve as the primary file for the immigrant and help determine eligibility.

Grassley and Collins said the citizenship and immigration offices, which are part of the Department of Homeland Security, rely on A-files to help determine eligibility for immigration benefits. The files are used by homeland security and law enforcement agencies during criminal investigations and to decide whether someone should remain in the U.S.

The GAO said the citizenship and immigration agency may not have consulted A-files when processing 30,000 naturalization applications in 2005. A-files were checked in 96 percent of the naturalization cases processed that year. The agency manages 55 million A-files.

[acmavm]

1. The frigging Dept. of Homeland Security is a fraud and and waste.

It does NOTHING that is supposed to do, and a lot that it should never be allowed to do.

This farce of a taxpayer drain needs to be eliminated.

[Richard Steele]

2. Agreed on all points. nm