No. of Recommendations: 3
These people come in, we conduct an interview and run all their identification against all the national and international databases that we have.
What else can be done without Congress allocating more resources? Without the facilities and personnel and funding to put more people in detention, you can't even delay the release of a greater proportion of these folks. You don't have anywhere to put them, or the resources to conduct any more thorough investigation. You don't want to allocate any more resources to the processing system, without which the folks who are released will be waiting for years and years for their hearing.
So what's your suggestion? - albaby
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Yeah, I have seen your make that statement before. No doubt that is the system that exists on paper. Now for reality, the volumes that must be processed in such a short time make any realistic in depth investigation possible.
And the big one is these people arrive at our border with no identification and could claim to be anybody. Yep, we check those databases, but how exactly does someone from a mud hut village in Somalia get into that database. And who to say, the person will be using that name anyway. I am not critical of the effort, BP is doing the best they can.
Massive new money, staff, and detention facilities plus a president willing to deploy them aggressively could address the volume problem.
But the other problem remains and when the applicant comes up not found in Data Bases, or comes from a country where records don't exist or corruption has rendered them useless or sporadically available, or a country where bribes are effective in purchasing official credentials. How cooperative do you think the ChiComs were in throwing open their criminal databases so we could vet those 55,000 that apparent were?
Those are significant limitations in our vetting capability. To tell ourselves, we are straining out the bad guys is just feel good, self denial that ignores a significant risk to our safety and security.
