The Biden Administration has allowed millions of migrants to enter the U.S. under the pretext that they are asylum seekers. It insists that these people are adequately “vetted” to make sure that they don’t have criminal backgrounds. A report by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disagrees.
It concluded that current procedures are “not fully effective to screen and vet non citizens
applying for admission into the United States or asylum seekers whose asylum applications were pending for an extended period. . . . DHS will remain at risk of admitting dangerous persons into the country or enabling asylum seekers who may pose significant threats to public safety and national security to continue to reside in the United States.”
The vetting system has about as many holes in it as a Swiss cheese. Migrants do not have to provide verifiable documents. Under the law, to assist verification, the government is supposed to take migrants’ DNA samples, but that only happens in about 40 percent of cases.
Migrants are screened through a “terror watch list,” but are seldom detained unless they are deemed to pose an immediate threat. Also, they are screened through a data base which records crimes committed in the U.S., but not those in the migrants’ home countries.
Many of these home countries lack adequate criminal records, and some like Venezuela–a major source of migrants–refuse to cooperate with U.S. vetting efforts. One example of our dysfunctional vetting system was a man from the Dominican Republic who gained residence in the U.S. with false documents. Last month, police arrested him for the murder of a family of four in upstate New York.
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