The federal government’s system of tracking immigration status is so broken that it gives a green light to one in eight aliens who have been ordered deported, according to an audit Tuesday that found the government has gone on to approve some of those who slip through for work in sensitive areas of airports and granted them benefits such as Medicaid or food stamps.
Some of those aliens who should have been kicked out had serious criminal records, including assault and extortion convictions, according to the audit by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general.
The SAVE system, maintained by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), is one key check other agencies use to weed out illegal immigrants who apply for benefits. It is supposed to be used by states when determining whether to issue driver’s licenses, and President Obama’s health-care law requires it be checked to make sure ineligible immigrants aren’t getting new health benefits.
Consider that under Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324, a section of law that is comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally.
Here is an excerpt from that section of law:
Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) Offenses
- Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).
- Harboring — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who — knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.
- Encouraging/Inducing — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who — encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.
- Conspiracy/Aiding or Abetting — Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) expressly makes it an offense to engage in a conspiracy to commit or aid or abet the commission of the foregoing offenses.
and threat confronting the United States today!
If our government’s failures to protect American jobs by securing our nation’s borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws concerns you or especially if it angers you, I ask you to call your Senators and Congressional “Representative. This is not only your right- it is your obligation!
All I ask is that you make it clear to our politicians that we are not as dumb as they hope we are!
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Audit: Feds’ immigration check system fails 12 percent of the time
On December 18, 2012 the Washington Times published a story about a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report that incompetence and ineptitude at USCIS is so rampant that criminal aliens stay in the United States and obtain jobs in sensitive locations and participate in various social welfare programs.
The report begins by noting that of the one in eight aliens ordered deported who never leave, some end up working in sensitive airport areas and get benefits like Medicaid or food stamps. Others who should have been expelled have serious criminal records including charges for assault with a deadly weapon, drug convictions, extortion and child abuse according the inspector general’s audit. In total, 800,000 aliens are still living in the U.S despite deportation orders.
USCIS fraud and incompetence is a longstanding problem. The terrorists who attacked the United States in 1993 at the CIA and the World Trade Center on 9/11 all committed some form of visa and/or immigration benefit fraud. Had they not been able to enter the U.S. , the terrorists would not have carried out their deadly attacks.
Eleven years after 9/11 and nearly two decades after the 1933 attacks, the immigration system’s ineptitude still compromises national security and local U.S. communities safety.
If the federal government can’t monitor 800,000 aliens who have been ordered deported but instead allows them to remain at large, it certainly couldn’t process an amnesty program that would include tens of millions of illegal aliens’ applications, many of whom would be unwilling or unable to document their true identity.