Feds Ignore The Threat To The Country

Report: Feds vet immigrants for Nazi and Communist ties, don’t mention ISIS

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Sam Rolley

Federal officials vetting immigrants for visas and citizenship ask hundreds of questions specifically addressing things like whether “he/she has been a Communist or World War II Nazi.” But a new analysis of the process reveals that the immigrants aren’t asked about sympathies for major modern threats to the U.S. such as ISIS.

The analysis, conducted by homeland security expert Mark Sauter, reveals that the federal government asks specific questions about a number of national security threats from the past but fails to specifically address many of the numerous threats facing the country today.

From Sauter’s analysis:

What we learned: During the visa and immigration process, someone seeking to become a US citizen is specifically asked in writing if he/she has been a Communist or World War II Nazi — and in many cases, whether he/she was a member of a Colombian terrorist organization — but is not specifically asked in writing whether he or she is or has been a member of ISIS, al-Qaida or other named Islamist terrorist groups.

The government does ask general questions applying to other terrorist groups. But it does not keep readily available information on the number and affiliations of applicants who admit being part of ISIS/al-Qaeda/other terrorist groups and appears to have no statistics at all on the number of applicants who say “No” when asked if they support the US Constitution.

Read the full analysis at Need to Share News.

Sauter says the findings suggest that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump may have a point about the need to implement some new “extreme vetting” measures he’s talked about for new immigrants to the U.S.

“All this doesn’t mean Donald Trump has the right plans, but he is certainly correct in saying the immigration system needs an urgent update to respond to America’s current threats,” Sauter said.