Obama Administration Admits U.S. Government Failed To Check Immigrants Against FBI Database And Approved Citizenship Anyway

You know how the Obama administration is convinced that we have the greatest vetting system in the entire universe? About that…

Over the weekend, the Obama administration admitted that the U.S. government approved citizenship of 175 immigrants without running them through the FBI’s name-check databases.

Homeland Security officials attributed the problem to a “computer code” issue, which affected around 15,000 applications.

The problem was significant enough that the government halted all naturalization ceremonies already in the pipeline and banned U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers from approving new citizenship applications beginning on Nov. 29, when officials acknowledged the problem in an internal email that was later obtained by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.

Allow me to interrupt just to express my love of the last name “Goodlatte.”

In the internal email, Daniel M. Renaud, associate director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, ordered all officers “not to approve or oath any naturalization cases in ELIS,” referring to the Electronic Immigration System that serves as the case management system for processing applications.

 

“At this point we are not confident that proper FBI Name Checks have been run on certain ELIS cases. At this point we are uncertain of the scope of the problem,” he wrote.

They’re “uncertain of the scope of the problem.” Gee, that’s comforting to hear. The only good news is, they’re now aware of the problem, and those whose applications were affected have had their names resubmitted to the FBI for an update.

This isn’t the first time they’ve made an embarrassing (and dangerous) mistake. A Homeland Security audit released in September revealed that the U.S. government 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.” Those immigrants weren’t caught, because government officials failed to realize that their fingerprints were missing from government databases.

So while terrorists run around and threaten to infiltrate the West, the U.S. government continues to mistakenly grant immigrants citizenship, thereby giving them access to work security-sensitive jobs and putting existing citizens in danger.

You know what we should do? Bring in more refugees. Like, thousands more.