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Monday, September 19, 2016

Vetting -- The Real Story

One of the issues being debated in the presidential election is the admission of Syrian refugees and other people seeking admittance into the USA from areas with high levels of terrorist activity.  In short, Donald Trump says that there will be "extreme vetting" before anyone is let into the country from these areas.  Hillary Clinton says that the USA can already vet these people adequately and wants to raise the admission of Syrian refugees to a level nearly six times the current number.

This morning brings some very relevant news.  It seems that the Department of Homeland Security granted US citizenship to roughly 800 applicants by mistake.  Here's how the "mistake" was described in the media:

The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday. The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren’t caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases.

Think about that.  These are 858 people who had been ordered deported from the USA.  They are not just questionable people; they had each been ordered to be DEPORTED.  So what did Homeland Security do?  It granted these people citizenship.  The DHS Inspector General did not break down the reason why these people had been ordered deported.  Maybe some had ties to terrorist organizations.  Maybe some gained access to the USA under false names or for phony reasons.  Maybe some had been convicted of violent crimes.  That pretty much covers the main reasons for a person to be ordered deported.  But DHS made them citizens.

If there ever was proof that Hillary Clinton really does not understand this issue, this story is it.  Trump understands that current vetting is wholly inadequate.  He wants to raise the level of what is being done.  American lives are at stake, as the recent terror bombings prove.  Hillary's pandering to the "political correctness crowd", by itself, is enough to disqualify her from being president.

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