Religious Worker Visa Fraud
This is a near perfect example of why it is right to support extremely strict laws regarding national security, border control and immigration as well as port security and all other related issues. The GAO reported fraud in religious worker visa programs in March 1999. Eight years of fraud since it was officially reported and it is still a problem. More of a problem is the fact that 33% of these visas are fraudulent, the government does not want to report if any cases involved suspected terrorists so that means it did and currently there are only plans to have an initial in person inspection with no subsequent inspections required nor are they suspending the program.
Of the fraudulent applications, those responsible had nothing to do with the church listed and the information provided was entirely false. This is the type of failures that cannot be tolerated. And open borders proponents believe or at least suggest that those supporting strict security are racist or in some way tainted. To those people I offer this example of what we are concerned about. That is why open borders are now so dangerous. That this particular problem could exist for so long with no effort by the government to correct or suspend the program is indefensible.
Feds inspecting churches in response to religious visa fraud
04/19/2007
Associated PressThe federal government is inspecting churches and religious groups to clamp down on fraud in a visa program for religious workers, government officials said Thursday.
The visits are part of an effort by Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, to tighten rules for the religious worker visas after finding fraud in about 33 percent of applications.
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April 25th, 2007 at 1:25 am
This caught my attention yesterday. I’m assuming the churches did not know these visas were applied for, intimating work at their church????
There should be not a single visa unvalidated before granted. It’s exasperating!
Maggie
Maggie’s Notebook
April 25th, 2007 at 2:27 am
My understanding is the 33% of known visa fraud cases for religious worker applicants understandably involved forged documents indicating church sponsorship that did not exist and was without the knowledge of the actual church. Sure they didn’t know. Sorry, I’m always suspicious.
The troubling part to me is the gov’ts refusal to declare how many frauds represent terrorist s. But the only optimism I have is based on the non-disclosure nature of successful national security strategies. Although any non-disclosure invites abuse, the fact remains we have not been attacked since 9/11 and I can only guess that it would have happened again if we were not having some success thwarting attempts.
So my dual congratulations and rebuke is this. Dear Govt, if you have successfully protected this nation, I sincerely thank you. But if the lack of disaster is merely luck, you rotten bastards. I think they will understand my sentiment.