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San Bernardino jihad murderer got visa despite lacking key documentation

Dec 23, 2015 7:31 am By Robert Spencer

“House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who alleged over the weekend that immigration officials ‘did not thoroughly vet’ Malik’s application, publicly released that file on Tuesday.” But they’re going to “thoroughly vet” the Syrian refugees — no problem!

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“‘Sloppily approved’: San Bernardino shooter’s thin visa file revealed,” FoxNews.com, December 22, 2015:

The application file for San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik’s fiancée visa reveals her American husband provided the U.S. government with minimal evidence to prove their relationship – yet it was good enough for immigration officials to approve her visa.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who alleged over the weekend that immigration officials “did not thoroughly vet” Malik’s application, publicly released that file on Tuesday.

The 21-page file includes the application form itself and just two sets of documents to prove Malik and American husband Syed Farook had met in person in the two years prior – which is a visa requirement.

The documents were:

A statement from Farook saying they had first met in person in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the Hajj pilgrimage in 2013.
Copies of their passport pages containing visas for Saudi Arabia and stamps.
The document seemed to back up Goodlatte’s assertion that the file was thin on evidence. Malik and Farook killed 14 people in the Dec. 2 terror attack.

“In order to obtain a fiancée visa, it is required to demonstrate proof that the U.S. citizen and foreign national have met in person,” Goodlatte said in a statement. “However, Malik’s immigration file does not show sufficient evidence for this requirement.”

He said “what is worse” is that the U.S. officials reviewing the application apparently requested more evidence to demonstrate they’d actually met “but it was never provided and her visa was approved anyway.”

He appeared to be referring to a line in the file that said the applicant needed to provide an English translation for the passport stamps – a translation that did not appear in the file. The committee noted Malik’s Saudi Arabia visa was good for 60 days, saying that casts doubt on claims they were in Saudi Arabia at the same time.

“And even if Farook and Malik met in Saudi Arabia, there is insufficient evidence in the file for USCIS to have made that determination,” the committee said in a statement….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, immigration, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Bob Goodlatte, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik


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  1. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 23, 2015 at 7:54 am

    Job performance like this is why we have the OPM, AFSCME and the SEIU. It’s why federal workers get bonuses. They’re paid 30% to 60% more, don’t have to go on lousy Obamacare, have light workloads, can’t be fired, and retire at 90% of their last salary with full Cadillac benefits. To induce them to do work like this.

    Of course, a key in this episode is that she was a Moslima, and every break must be given to one of those. It’d be racist and religiously bigoted to deny her visa. There is great power in being a G.S.E.R.S.S. Geezers are paid to serve up the same tired old self-delusional crap year after year, to help destroy the nation.

    Global-Socialist Environmentalist Racist Sexist Secularist, with the fourth and the last in play this time around.

  2. Dave J says

    Dec 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Believe it or not she actually lied on the screening questionnaire regarding having jihad sympathies and connections.

    I am shocked that a member of a “religion” that has 6 different words for deceit would not be truthful. I’m sure it will never happen again as the tens of thousands of additional refugee/invaders are carefully “vetted”.

    • Shane says

      Dec 24, 2015 at 9:55 am

      Obama is more concerned with not offending Islam than he is about protecting America from Islamic jihad. We must elect the GOP presidential candidate or Hillary will continue Obama’s policy of bringing in hordes of Islamic jihaids every year into our country.

  3. nacazo says

    Dec 23, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    All the burocrats that handled this application should be fired. immediately. Unless they happen to be muslim brotherhood operatives, In that case they should be promoted to avoid the appearane of islamophobia in government.

    /sarc off

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 23, 2015 at 6:58 pm

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who alleged over the weekend that immigration officials “did not thoroughly vet” Malik’s application, publicly released that file on Tuesday.

    This is the con: believing they can tell who is, or will become, a jihadi and who isn’t and won’t – “We missed this small detail with this murderer but we won’t fail on the next”. And the next comes and it’s “oh, there’s this detail that missed, but it’s not the same as last time, so next time we’ll get it right”, and so on. And the general public, either because they’re ignorant or because they can’t/won’t handle the truth, whistles and nods approvingly.

  5. mags says

    Dec 23, 2015 at 11:28 pm

    I worked in immigration law in the US and I must believe that this instance is an anomaly. Normally speaking, the rules and the vetting are quite tight.

  6. underbed cat says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    Except with those who reside in Saudi Arabia,correct? Immigration is so tight they could walk across the border, but why bother they can arrive at any airport. Or maybe get flown in as a refugee, …..sorry I don’t buy it is tight to get in to the United States if you are muslim…..with the administration going back to the 80’s to current day. Most likely it is due to definitions, that erronously define a religion and the obligations or command read in the hadiths or sura’s

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