Maybe you shouldn’t, the Federal Government admits it has no idea of who is in this country.
By de Andréa
It seems that immigration, legal and illegal, is too numerically overwhelming for the federal government to handle properly.
This is primarily due to an archaic outdated system of slow moving paper in a fast moving E-world, the problem is, that the system of background checks is inefficient. The FBI electronically stores approximately 80 million investigative files for about 80 percent of legal immigrants. The remaining 20 percent are paper-based searches for any mention of an applicant’s name in records stored in 265 separate locations across this country.
These files are not even merged and duplicated, each one of the 265 separate locations must be checked individually, and can literally take years to complete a check. One might think…well, they only have to check 20 percent of the background checks on these paper records scattered all across this country in cardboard boxes in the storerooms of FBI offices. Not so! If a name or identity does not appear in the computer files, meaning only that there may not be any criminal record in the electronic system, they must still check the remaining 20% of these archaic unmerged separate paper files. This could result in and increase of as much as 50%. Moreover, this is just the legal immigration process; the processing of illegal aliens is simply non existent. Still feeling safe?
After the debacle last year of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Americans were told that “illegal immigrants live among us in the shadows and that the federal government has no way of knowing who they are.”
The DOL acknowledges that most of the agricultural workers in this country are illegal immigrants. But how are Americans supposed to trust the federal government to enforce the border and deport those who arrive illegally when it is incapable of checking those who are here legally or illegally?
This is an egregious problem, one highlighted earlier last month when President George W. Bush’s administration announced that it will grant permanent residency status to tens of thousands of legal immigrants without first completing their required background checks against the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigative files because the backlog of legal immigration cases is too large and growing rapidly.
The change in status will affect an unknown number of applicants whose cases otherwise are complete but whose FBI checks have been pending for six months to a year. The backlog has left many legal immigrants in limbo. I applaud these immigrants for following the rules and applying to live here legally. But they are not the problem; the federal government; is the problem.
What type of signal does this send to those who may be criminals in their home country or Islamic terrorists who seek to destroy America for ideological reasons?
The recent release of a so-called study on the percentages of illegal criminals in this country is flawed. The study used only the number of incarcerated illegals as a percentage of illegal alien criminals in this country. The study did not for example account for the fact that 69.8 % of the outstanding wants and warrants for violent crimes in Los Angles County alone are known to be Illegal aliens. So it is just another one of these feel good attempts of a vote for “Tolerance and Multi-Cultureism” no matter what the cost.
The signal is loud and clear:
By de Andréa
It seems that immigration, legal and illegal, is too numerically overwhelming for the federal government to handle properly.
This is primarily due to an archaic outdated system of slow moving paper in a fast moving E-world, the problem is, that the system of background checks is inefficient. The FBI electronically stores approximately 80 million investigative files for about 80 percent of legal immigrants. The remaining 20 percent are paper-based searches for any mention of an applicant’s name in records stored in 265 separate locations across this country.
These files are not even merged and duplicated, each one of the 265 separate locations must be checked individually, and can literally take years to complete a check. One might think…well, they only have to check 20 percent of the background checks on these paper records scattered all across this country in cardboard boxes in the storerooms of FBI offices. Not so! If a name or identity does not appear in the computer files, meaning only that there may not be any criminal record in the electronic system, they must still check the remaining 20% of these archaic unmerged separate paper files. This could result in and increase of as much as 50%. Moreover, this is just the legal immigration process; the processing of illegal aliens is simply non existent. Still feeling safe?
After the debacle last year of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Americans were told that “illegal immigrants live among us in the shadows and that the federal government has no way of knowing who they are.”
The DOL acknowledges that most of the agricultural workers in this country are illegal immigrants. But how are Americans supposed to trust the federal government to enforce the border and deport those who arrive illegally when it is incapable of checking those who are here legally or illegally?
This is an egregious problem, one highlighted earlier last month when President George W. Bush’s administration announced that it will grant permanent residency status to tens of thousands of legal immigrants without first completing their required background checks against the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigative files because the backlog of legal immigration cases is too large and growing rapidly.
The change in status will affect an unknown number of applicants whose cases otherwise are complete but whose FBI checks have been pending for six months to a year. The backlog has left many legal immigrants in limbo. I applaud these immigrants for following the rules and applying to live here legally. But they are not the problem; the federal government; is the problem.
What type of signal does this send to those who may be criminals in their home country or Islamic terrorists who seek to destroy America for ideological reasons?
The recent release of a so-called study on the percentages of illegal criminals in this country is flawed. The study used only the number of incarcerated illegals as a percentage of illegal alien criminals in this country. The study did not for example account for the fact that 69.8 % of the outstanding wants and warrants for violent crimes in Los Angles County alone are known to be Illegal aliens. So it is just another one of these feel good attempts of a vote for “Tolerance and Multi-Cultureism” no matter what the cost.
The signal is loud and clear:
Those with criminal records, including violent ones, or those who would mount terrorist attacks against us can beat the system because the federal government is too uncoordinated, lethargic and basically incompetent to check their backgrounds.
This is a serious threat to our national security, not because all these aliens, legal or illegal, have criminal or terrorists intentions but because it only requires a few, or even one to slip through the cracks to wreak havoc on our cities and country.
The decision to grant permanent residency status to hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants without first completing their required background checks is to put it mildly, a disservice to American citizens, as well as a violation of the U. S. Constitution article 4 section 4. Moreover there is the lengthy waiting period for legal immigrants, many of whom may have jobs and families in limbo hinging on the outcome of their residency status which tends to exacerbate the problem of illegal entry into the United States. The federal government is failing both groups.
Misappropriation of funds
Congress has approved more money to update the system to speed the FBI name checks.
Unfortunately, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency handling the background checks for permanent residency status, plans to use the increased funding to hire more FBI contractors. As has come to be expected from the federal government, this is just more of the same incompetence.
What USCIS should do is mount an intensive campaign with the FBI to make all FBI files electronic, so that it will no longer require so much time and manpower to dig through paper files across the country. But such a common-sense idea rarely occurs to government bureaucrats.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The federal government needs to get a handle on immigration, both legal and illegal, and do it soon. It has failed the American people on this issue more than any other, and will continue to fail unless we demand an immediate overhaul of the current system. And that does not mean more bureaucracy.
When, as a US law abiding citizen, one is born here, razed here, was in the military, had a security clearance, and applied for a CCW license, they checked background through FBI, CIA, Interpol, MI-5 and MI-6 state and local law enforcement, and the cookie monsters cookie jar. But they just let any foreign alien legal or illegal in this country without so much as knowing who they are, where they came from, or why they are here. Still feeling safe???
de Andréa
This is a serious threat to our national security, not because all these aliens, legal or illegal, have criminal or terrorists intentions but because it only requires a few, or even one to slip through the cracks to wreak havoc on our cities and country.
The decision to grant permanent residency status to hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants without first completing their required background checks is to put it mildly, a disservice to American citizens, as well as a violation of the U. S. Constitution article 4 section 4. Moreover there is the lengthy waiting period for legal immigrants, many of whom may have jobs and families in limbo hinging on the outcome of their residency status which tends to exacerbate the problem of illegal entry into the United States. The federal government is failing both groups.
Misappropriation of funds
Congress has approved more money to update the system to speed the FBI name checks.
Unfortunately, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency handling the background checks for permanent residency status, plans to use the increased funding to hire more FBI contractors. As has come to be expected from the federal government, this is just more of the same incompetence.
What USCIS should do is mount an intensive campaign with the FBI to make all FBI files electronic, so that it will no longer require so much time and manpower to dig through paper files across the country. But such a common-sense idea rarely occurs to government bureaucrats.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The federal government needs to get a handle on immigration, both legal and illegal, and do it soon. It has failed the American people on this issue more than any other, and will continue to fail unless we demand an immediate overhaul of the current system. And that does not mean more bureaucracy.
When, as a US law abiding citizen, one is born here, razed here, was in the military, had a security clearance, and applied for a CCW license, they checked background through FBI, CIA, Interpol, MI-5 and MI-6 state and local law enforcement, and the cookie monsters cookie jar. But they just let any foreign alien legal or illegal in this country without so much as knowing who they are, where they came from, or why they are here. Still feeling safe???
de Andréa
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