Yesterday, we reported on the administration’s plan to seek out deported law-breakers in their home countries, bring them back to the U.S., and ply them with benefits and apologies. In accord with that kind of flaunting of its own laws by our government, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a Senate committee yesterday that, sure, some Afghanis were committing fraud in trying to enter the United States, but that that was “understandable.”
John Binder of Breitbart News quotes Blinken:
Those who apply, those who actually get chief admission approval, the washout rate is about 40 percent because it turns out that many people who apply, don’t qualify under the criteria set by congress or they are unable to … prove that they have worked, faithfully and loyally, for the United States. There are some situations where people are committing fraud to get into the program, maybe for understandable reasons. [Emphasis added]
The administration expects to permanently re-settle in this country at least 95,000 Afghanis, most of whom fail to qualify for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) or refugee status. That means they never worked for or assisted the U.S. in any way nor are they demonstrably threatened in their homeland; they just want to live here, and the Taliban takeover of their country combined with the domestic situation in ours presents a golden opportunity. So what if it takes a little fraud?
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies of Afghan nationals already in the United States (in 2019, numbering about 133,000) shows that 25 percent continue to live in poverty, and that 65 percent receive some form of government welfare. We have no way of knowing how much of that is fraudulent, but we’re sure it’s “understandable.”
For more, see Breitbart News.