The government suspended naturalization ceremonies and banned officers from approving any new applications for citizenship earlier this week after realizing its background check system was broken and ineligible people may have been slipping through, a key congressman revealed Friday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, whose office was tipped off to the monumental error, said he was stunned by the problem — and also by the fact that the administration never bothered to inform him of it.
In the internal email Mr. Goodlatte obtained, the associate director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ordered all officers “not to approve or oath any naturalization cases in ELIS,” referring to the Electronic Immigration System that’s the case management system for processing applications.
“At this point we are not confident that proper FBI Name Checks have been run on certain ELIS cases. At this point we are uncertain of the scope of the problem,” Daniel M. Renaud, the associate director, said in the email.
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Yeah, I know! I mean, nobody has raised even the slightest mention that immigrants were entering illegally and without screening! We were all positive that all the Syrians being shipped in had a 5 generation Family Tree with them! They all had passports, too, right? I haven't heard anything to the contrary in the past 9 years, have you?
/sarcasm off.
Maybe someone wants to keep their jobs when the new sheriff comes to town?
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