CHAIRMAN CITES “EPIC FAILURE”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Dec. 2, 2016) — In a letter dated December 2, 2016 to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte wrote that he was not told about an “epic failure” in the system used to perform background checks on “foreign nationals seeking immigration benefits.”
Goodlatte went on to say that an email sent by a USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) official to another official at the agency on Tuesday stated that “Effective immediately offices are instructed not to approve or oath any naturalization cases in ELIS,” which Goodlatte said stands for “Electronic Immigration System.”
A “confidential source” reportedly told Goodlatte of the email exchange.
“I am troubled by the fact that as the Chairman of the Committee of jurisdiction over USCIS, I was not informed about this epic USCIS failure to ensure that immigration benefits applicants were properly vetted as required by law,” Goodlatte told Johnson.
A search for “ELIS USCIS” yielded several online portals to USCIS and a non-government website which states that ELIS can be utilized “to file USCIS applications electronically.”
After taking office on January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama promised “an unprecedented level of openness in government.”
Goodlatte asked Johnson to provide a briefing on the current status of ELIS and to address ten questions, the last of which is, “What plan does USCIS have to fix ELIS?”
They must be living in a bubble. Time to drain the swamp.
Did know? How could they not know? Self imposed blinders?
Perhaps they just didn’t want to address the issue and
take real action. Or on the other hand, they want it
with unvetted Foreigners. Thus, overload the system…
Perhaps we should put average Joe Americans in charge
instead of the established politicans. It seems as if
the only one’s that get vetted is junior enlisted member
of the military. And these are held to a different level.