November 21, 2016, - 3:35 pm
Homeland Security: “We F’d Up Again! Gave 200,000 Green Cards to Terrorists”
Hot off the presses, an hour ago, from the falsely-named Department of Homeland Security is that the department bleeped up again, issuing thousands of “duplicate” green cards that have disappeared and probably went to terrorists by DHS’ own admission. The department says it has 200,000 such reports. Yup, 200,000. And this is from its own do-nothing in-house investigator, the Office of the Inspector General. Read the scary details.
Here’s the press release:
A new Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report concludes that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to struggle to ensure proper Green Card issuance. The audit was conducted as a follow-up to a March 2016 report where the DHS OIG disclosed that USCIS had sent potentially hundreds of Green Cards to the wrong addresses.
In fact, the problem was far worse than originally thought. Over the last 3 years, USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards that included incorrect information or were issued in duplicate. Additional mistakes included over 2,400 immigrants approved for 2-year conditional residence status being inadvertently issued cards with 10-year expiration dates. The agency also received over 200,000 reports of cards potentially misdelivered, or not being delivered to approved applicants.
The majority of the card issuance errors were due to the flawed design and functionality problems in the agency’s Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). The delays and cost overruns of the ELIS system have been documented in previous OIG reports. Although USCIS conducted a number of efforts to recover the inappropriately issued and missing cards, its efforts to address the errors have been inadequate.
“It appears that thousands of Green Cards have simply gone missing. In the wrong hands, Green Cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States,” said Inspector General Roth. “It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.”
Read the full report on this numbskullity here.
Um, yeah, good luck finding anyone in government “ensur[ing] better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.” You think the lazy government and its politically correct bureaucrats are gonna send federal agents (in this case, it would probably be ICE agents) to investigate and track down each of those 200,000 complaints? Dream on, my friend. Will never happen. Nevah evah.
We spend billions of dollars on these computer programs and software and it always fails. Why? Where is the accountability? Where are the lawsuits against the makers of this crap (who are laughing all the way to the bank)? Don’t look for the producers of the “Electronic Immigration System” to face any punishment. You might hear some promises. You’ll never see any results. That’s how it “works.” Just sayin’.
Usually DHS paints as rosy a picture as possible. So if they’re saying there are 200,000 reports of missing green cards, imagine how bad the problem really is.
Will this incompetence change under President Trump? Don’t bet on it. The incompetence in the bureaucracy of this mammoth department is intransigent. It will take a lot for anyone to change it. The only way it will change is if we have a President and Justice Department who are willing to prosecute Homeland Security officials for these kinds of bleep-ups.
We’ll see. But don’t hold your breath. This is ingrained in government culture. And it’s only getting worse.
America . . . we’re f—ed. The Department of Homeland Security . . . we’re the ones doing the f—king.
I have no doubt that bureaucratic incompetence is a factor in this. But I would be surprised if it is the only factor.
It is hard for me not to believe that some of this is intentional. Given the consistent lying and misrepresentation characteristic of Government bureaucrats, especially those of the Democratic Party, I suspect some of this is, indeed intentional.
Just as the elections are characterized by numerous dead people voting, numerous illegal people voting, etc., etc., ‘mistakes’ benefiting illegal aliens would be consistent with this.
Will it change under Trump? I don’t know. But the nomination of Jeff Sessions as AG does seem to be a declaration of war against illegals.
LA: I agree with you that this kind of giant “mistake” just doesn’t happen “by accident,” but rather by design, as in Obama’s design. However, I do not agree with you on the Jeff Sessions nomination, b/c it takes him away from getting tough on illegals. If Trump wanted that, he’d have made Sessions the chief of Homeland Security or at the very least, ICE. But he didn’t. DS
Little Al on November 21, 2016 at 4:04 pm