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Obama administration fails to check immigrants against FBI databases, approves citizenship

Dec 6, 2016 8:11 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Homeland Security officials blamed computer code for the problem” of approving citizenship for 175 immigrants without FBI background checks.”

It was another embarrassing black eye for USCIS, which earlier this year admitted it had granted citizenship to hundreds of criminals who should have been barred but who escaped notice because the agency wasn’t properly checking their fingerprints.

Why be surprised by this? It is typical of the Obama administration. It came to light in June that a Muslim ‘war criminal’ was working security at Dulles International Airport; and in August, the Department of Homeland Security gave Somali Muslims special behind-the-scenes airport security tours because they felt harassed and profiled. Add also the lack of screening of the surge of Muslim refugees welcomed in by the Obama administration, and the loose Southern border, where millions have slipped into the US.

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“Obama administration fails to check immigrants against FBI databases, approves citizenship”, by Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, December 4, 2016:

Some 175 immigrants were approved for citizenship even though their names weren’t properly run through the FBI’s name-check databases, potentially missing red flags that may have disqualified them from naturalization, the Obama administration admitted this weekend.

Homeland Security officials blamed computer code for the problem, which affected about 15,000 applications in total.

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.

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.

It was another embarrassing black eye for USCIS, which earlier this year admitted it had granted citizenship to hundreds of criminals who should have been barred but who escaped notice because the agency wasn’t properly checking their fingerprints. Tens of thousands of fingerprints remain in paper files, and the agency was only checking electronic records, an internal audit said.

Mr. Goodlatte said he was stunned that USCIS didn’t notify him, as the chairman of the committee that oversees the agency, of the new problem. He only learned about it after a source provided him with Mr. Renaud’s internal email.

Homeland Security said the problem arose as part of the ongoing push to digital processing of citizenship applications.

Some 15,000 applications were affected, including about 175 people who had their applications approved despite not having an accurate name check, the department said. Those persons have all had their names resubmitted to the FBI for an update.

FBI name checks are a critical part of the application process, giving immigration officers a look at potential criminal histories or other national security red flags that would make someone ineligible for citizenship.

Mr. Goodlatte demanded USCIS detail when it discovered the problem and how many cases were affected, and said the agency should take steps to strip citizenship from anyone who shouldn’t have been approved.

Homeland Security spokesman Aaron Rodriguez said the department will respond directly to Mr. Goodlatte, but insisted officials take the background process seriously.

The spokesman said FBI name checks are one of a number of steps in the process, each aimed at weeding out bad citizenship applications. But Mr. Rodriguez said the name checks are a critical part of the process, and must be completed before someone is cleared to come in for a naturalization interview.

“Naturalization applications represent a significant portion of USCIS’ caseload, and as with any major system change, some challenges were expected as we moved to electronic processing of the N-400. We will continue to employ multiple quality controls to ensure the integrity of the naturalization process,” the spokesman said…..

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  1. Wakeup says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:16 am

    The sooer that evil bastard goes the better.

    • Gary says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 8:28 am

      “Hope & Change”

      2017 can’t come soon enough!!!

    • john spielman says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 9:08 am

      so now to TRAITORUS,, we can call the Obamanation’s administration- INCOMPETENT!

      • TR says

        Dec 7, 2016 at 10:07 am

        Just Incompetent would be a defense. This Administration has willful criminal intent behind their policies they disguise as innocent mistakes !

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 7, 2016 at 5:22 pm

      Wakeup, My daughter and her family live in St. Louis.. There Muslim population is exploding there, one reason is there is a large Orthodox Jewish population there, and they are always stalking the Jewish sites and centers, very un nerving, and I am afraid this joker is part of a bigger plot………..

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 8:42 am

    FBI name checks are a critical part of the application process, giving immigration officers a look at potential criminal histories or other national security red flags that would make someone ineligible for citizenship.

    Do they screen for “extremist” views? Can they tell if someone will be “radicalized” in the future?

    • TR says

      Dec 6, 2016 at 11:09 am

      The FBI checks are a Dog and Pony Show for the Public. Very Very Very Few can be checked out.
      These Insurgent Hostile Islamic Jihadists Can Not Be Vetted, Impossible! If they were able to be Vetted they would be found to be undesirable for admission into the USA. They are In pursuit of Valuable Rewards of Jihad Spoils of war. You, your property and family members mainly daughters and wife and Sons for slaves or brutal sadistic entertainment and murder.
      Obama has been an enemy operative long before taking public office. Do not forget, George Soros was hacked, surfacing his directives to Obama to continue his importation of these Hostiles. WE were not disarmed as they planned, they have to increase their fighting force to overcome the the obstacle of an armed citizen population. This is their last chance of conquering the USA. They will never come this close again.

  3. Dom107 says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 9:14 am

    It amazes me that in this age of of technology how badly it is used in all countries of the world to defeat terrorism and other forms of criminality.If you were to ask a government spokesman in the UK what is the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the UK he/she could not give an answer
    Teresa May the current Prime Minister was in charge of this in her last job and couldn’t even control the number of legal immigrants which was supposed to be in tens of thousands but ended up over 600,000 this year and the previous year.
    As a member of the government you are allowed to fail miserably and still keep your job while the rest of us get the sack or are made redundant.It is time Europe made its failing governments redundant and they have the chance in 2017 in Germany,France,Sweden,Netherlands,perhaps Italy,Austria etc
    You have only yourselves to blame if your culture is polluted by those with hate in their hearts and an ultimate takeover as their stated aim.!!

  4. Troybeam says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 9:17 am

    Times this action by eight years and we have a lot of Muslims given citizenship without going though proper channels. The big question is how many of these Muslims are hamas, al queda, isis and so forth, only Obama knows and that is from my point of view TREASONOUS ACT AGAINST AMERICA.

  5. somehistory says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 9:56 am

    Name checks? The names are all the same, with a few variations. DNA checks, something they can’t fake, can’t change, can’t hide.

    Africa, Syria, etc., countries where, in many cases, there are no “databases” to check for criminal backgrounds. The information must have been entered in order to be checked later by someone else. No data entry, nothing to check.

    The beast. Lies, on-purpose *mistakes*…and moslims doing a lot of the *work* for the agencies. What else can one expect?

    Thanks be to God our Creator and His Son, that one day, the beast will enter the pit of destruction. On Them, we can depend. No mistakes, no lies, no failures.

  6. American Pragmatism says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 10:35 am

    Obama to hold a speech today about his counterterrorism failures.

  7. Richard Paulsen says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 am

    Had not the musliminvasion of Europe been stopped in 732 by Charles Martel (Carolus Martellus) and later invasion efforts by others like Jan Sobieski and Eugene of Savoi, there would have been mosques instead of churches, Quran instead of the Bible, islam instead of democracy, backwardness instead of Enlightment and arabic the main language in Europe and U.S.A..
    Governments so far in Europe and U.S.A, have not respected history.

  8. Stan Lee says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    The Obama Regime has made more convenient errors to permit entry of Muslims, because Obama can’t get enough of Muslim conduct, and besides that, he has an intense dislike for Americans and their country. So, he’s doing to America what EU heads of state are doing to Europe, except for the few European leaders with enough guts to tell Brussels to “back-off To them, “One-World government” is the answer. For them, it meant no more coping with nationalistic cultures, everyone can just do as that centrally located tribunal orders. Like: to your country,:a million Muslims are on their way. To your country, only 750,000, etc.,etc.

    Here, obviously, Obama may have thought that he could go on forever, disadvantaging the USA via “Executive Orders”….so he wouldn’t need to go to the U.S. Congress for all the latitude he has presumed to take. But, soon his privileges will stop and the newly-elected President will step in and bring the nation back to normal. But now, the people have spoken and never has the Democrat Party (Socialists) ever been as rejected as the present. It’s actually possible, the people need to awaken and actively keep government under scrutiny. Never mind the PC crap either!

    Ineptitude will finally be driven out and Conservatism will prevail here. I hope the good people of Europe will free themselves of that select group of parasites in Brussels and once again recognize the value of pride in nationalism. Too long has it been comatose, when in fact, people must demand “no more” of the same and then control their own destinies! As for Brexit, I hope it can happen sooner and it appears that Italy could be next. Viva Italia!

  9. Charles says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    I’ve always felt that Barry Osama belongs in a federal prison !
    This is just one more reason among many!

  10. Eric Jones says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 1:25 pm

    O Obama, just leave!

    Eric

  11. Bill says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    I say Treason.

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 6, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    Obama administration fails to check immigrants against FBI databases, approves citizenship
    …………………

    What could possibly go wrong? sarc/off

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