“Mistakenly awarding citizenship to someone ordered deported can have serious consequences because U.S. citizens can typically apply for and receive security clearances or take security-sensitive jobs.”
What could possibly go wrong, you racist, bigoted Islamophobe?
In any case, this shows the quality of the Obama “vetting” process.
“More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship,” Associated Press, September 19, 2016:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has 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, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.
The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren’t caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases.
DHS said in an emailed statement that an initial review of these cases suggest that some of the individuals may have ultimately qualified for citizenship, and that the lack of digital fingerprint records does not necessarily mean they committed fraud.
The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but Inspector General John Roth’s auditors said they were all from “special interest countries” — those that present a national security concern for the United States — or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration fraud. The report did not identify those countries.
DHS said the findings reflect what has long been a problem for immigration officials — old paper-based records containing fingerprint information that can’t be searched electronically. DHS says immigration officials are in the process of uploading these files and that officials will review “every file” identified as a case of possible fraud.
Roth’s report said fingerprints are missing from federal databases for as many as 315,000 immigrants with final deportation orders or who are fugitive criminals. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not reviewed about 148,000 of those immigrants’ files to add fingerprints to the digital record.
The gap was created because older, paper records were never added to fingerprint databases created by both the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service and the FBI in the 1990s. ICE, the DHS agency responsible for finding and deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, didn’t consistently add digital fingerprint records of immigrants whom agents encountered until 2010.
The government has known about the information gap and its impact on naturalization decisions since at least 2008 when a Customs and Border Protection official identified 206 immigrants who used a different name or other biographical information to gain citizenship or other immigration benefits, though few cases have been investigated.
Roth’s report said federal prosecutors have accepted two criminal cases that led to the immigrants being stripped of their citizenship. But prosecutors declined another 26 cases. ICE is investigating 32 other cases after closing 90 investigations.
ICE officials told auditors that the agency hadn’t pursued many of these cases in the past because federal prosecutors “generally did not accept immigration benefits fraud cases.” ICE said the Justice Department has now agreed to focus on cases involving people who have acquired security clearances, jobs of public trust or other security credentials.
Mistakenly awarding citizenship to someone ordered deported can have serious consequences because U.S. citizens can typically apply for and receive security clearances or take security-sensitive jobs….

Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
The biggest mistake is the first stage of the vetting process:the UNHCR in Jordan. Do the American public know that the staff are Sunni and obviously allow the right people to proceed to the second stage.
LB says
Well, the UN head of immigration is a Jordanian prince, so that should come as no surprise.
Jay Boo says
If they are Hillary Clinton supporters it should have been obvious that they never had any loyalty to the USA.
heidi says
IF?they are leftist supporters??? this is clearly orchestrated. the only problem w/the 98% muslims that have been seeded into the U.S. is that a couple of Christians also slipped through. who says we have no “religious” filters for who gets in.
Wellington says
Oops. And with many more “oops” to come since America right now, as is the case with so many other Western nations, is led by fools, like those at the Department of Homeland Stupidity.
PRCS says
“At least three of the immigrants-turned-citizens were able to acquire aviation or transportation worker credentials, granting them access to secure areas in airports or maritime facilities and vessels. Their credentials were revoked after they were identified as having been granted citizenship improperly, Roth said in his report.
A fourth person is now a law enforcement officer.”
Didn’t notice where citizenship revocations will happen where applicable.
gravenimage says
Yeah–I missed that part, too, PRCS…
miriamrove says
As an immigrant myself, I can tell you that immigration laws are so….up and it is a disaster. When I went to immigration office in down town NYC to be sworn in and get my citizenship, I was dumb founded by the question the officer asked me. He asked what language do you want to be sworn in? I said English what do you mean? He said we swear people in 60 languages! That how …up the system is. m
Karen says
And the oath was changed last year. You can now ask to have the part about serving in the military omitted from your oath on religious grounds. Hmmmmm…I wonder what grounds those could be?
gravenimage says
Yes–very disturbing. Somehow I doubt it’s mostly going to be pacifists taking advantage of that little loophole…
Angemon says
“Mistakenly”? You mean, like when Hillary “mistakenly” used a personal server? The more one looked into that story, the more fishy it got:
Champ says
Great video! Thank you, Angemon …
Indeed! …”if you’re running for president, a ‘felony’ is pretty bad on the resume.”
rabrooks says
And she is still hideing under the “I never handeled any sensitive information on my e-mail account during my time as sos.
She has admitted to just about every charge, when does she get the trip up the river?
Judi says
Even if they had the fingerprints and knew the whereabouts of every one of these illegals, they wouldn’t do anything until after the election. The way they look at it is this means a few hundred more votes for Hitlery.
Peter says
Department of Homeland STUPIDITY
overman says
They should be listening to this woman:
Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Jihad Mom Lady, You Shouldnt Be Allowed Here
gravenimage says
Good stuff from Judge Jeanine Pirro. Kudos to her! Thanks for posting this, overman.
gravenimage says
U.S. government “mistakenly” granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants, many from countries of concern to national security
…………………………
D’oh!
And we are the ones who will suffer for it…
Paul Clark says
I don’t believe it was a mistake. It was a deliberate act to “sabotage” America. The head of homeland security is just another racist employed by Obama. Obama is a racist, Islamist and a socialist. This is also so true for most of his appointees and advisers. Like his wife, they hate America. If this was a mistake they “can walk it back.”
They will not because it is not a mistake.
Paul Clark says
Who made this mistake? Congress needs to investigate. Who are the supervisors? Is this just another lie? Their citizenship should immediately be nullified and they should return to deportation status. They need to be taken in custody now. The deportation process should begin immediately. Of course they will not do any of this …because this was not a mistake.
Georg says