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Title: DEATH BLOW TO GUEST WORKER AMNESTY:GAO REPORT EXPOSES MASSIVE MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION
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Published: Mar 15, 2006
Author: Tony Dolz
Post Date: 2006-03-15 19:29:20 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: MISMANAGEMENT, AMNESTY:GAO, CORRUPTION
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DEATH BLOW TO GUEST WORKER AMNESTY:GAO REPORT EXPOSES MASSIVE MISMANAGEMENT AND CORRUPTION LA Chronicle The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dealt the fatal blow to the controversial concept of Guest Worker Amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens now living in the United States in defiance of our laws. The GAO is the investigative arm of Congress charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds. In a devastating report released today, the GAO charges the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – this is the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that would be in charge of proposed Guest Worker Amnesty – with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption. On the eve of debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee, of the House passed Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 - HR 4437, the GAO report exposes rampant immigration chaos and USCIS corruption. Among the GAO's most alarming findings are that 33 percent of religious worker visas were issued fraudulently. There is documented evidence that radical Islamists, with ties to terrorist organizations, have used the religious worker visa category to gain admission to the United States . The timing of the report mars the hopes of millions of unethical employers, that on or off their payroll employ 12 million illegal aliens. These crooks were counting on lobbying efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other pro-illegal immigration advocates, for influencing passage of a Guest Worker Amnesty Bill in the Senate. The Government agency that would be responsible for administering the controversial Guest Worker Amnesty that would reward 12 million illegal aliens living and working un-lawfully with legal status, is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The Copley News Service reported on March 7 th , that prior to the damning GAO report, “Michael Maxwell stepped down last month as director of the Office of Security at USCIS, and sought protection under the federal whistle-blower protection law. He claims that senior agency officials had been retaliating against him for telling Congress about what he described as serious national security vulnerabilities that persisted despite his warnings to those running the agency.” In addition, Maxwell claims the agency lacks the resources to handle some 500 allegations of criminal misconduct against agency employees, including allegations of espionage and acceptance of bribes. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Angelica Alfonso declined requests for an interview. She released a statement yesterday that said the agency is confident of its processes, and that it takes the allegations seriously. This has to be taken with a huge grain of salt as the agency has been under investigation since 2001. One of Maxwell's attorneys, Rosemary Jenks, said his concerns demonstrate an underlying tension between Citizenship and Immigration Services' dual missions of providing immigration benefits to applicants and of protecting national secur ity.” Why did the GAO conduct a study on the USCIS? See Full Report here: (http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/gaoimmbenefits31006.pdfIn 2002) The just released GAO report documents that immigration benefit fraud was pervasive and significant and the approach to controlling it was fragmented. Experts believe that individuals ineligible for these benefits, including terrorists and criminals, could use fraudulent means to enter or remain in the U.S. The Congress requested that GAO evaluate U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) anti-fraud efforts. The report addresses the questions: (1) What do available data and information indicate regarding the nature and extent of fraud? (2) What actions has USCIS taken to improve its ability to detect fraud? (3) What actions does the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) take to sanction those who commit fraud? Hordes of immigration law attorneys have joined the ranks of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations dedicated to cheapening the wages of American workers through the oversupply of desperate illegal foreign workers. How? Through massive illegal immigration! Our unprotected borders have been allowed to fester with a booming $140 billion per year in drug trafficking and $10 billion dollar in human trafficking in the name of America 's addiction to cheap illegal labor. Which immigration law firm would not like to have a client base of 12 million desperate illegal aliens that grows at the rate of 2.5 million per year. In one of the largest labor certification fraud schemes ever uncovered by the GAO, federal investigators found evidence that a single prominent immigration attorney in the Washington, D.C., area submitted at least 1,436 and perhaps as many as 2,700 fraudulent employment applications between 1998 and 2002. According to the sworn testimony of a Department of Labor (DOL) special agent, this attorney and his associates are alleged to have made at least $11.4 million for the 1,400 applications that the agent reviewed, in all of which he found evidence of fraud, and perhaps as much as $21.6 million if all 2,700 applications were fraudulent, as he strongly suspected. USCIS WEAKNESSES POSE A GREAT THREAT OF TERRORISM The GAO reports goes on to say, “Some individuals seeking immigration benefits pose a threat to national security and public safety, and white collar and other criminals sometimes facilitate immigration benefit fraud. For example, according to Office of Fraud Detection and National Security ( FDNS ) , each year about 5,200 immigration benefit applicants are identified as potential national security risks, because their personal information matches information contained in U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Interagency Border Inspection System, a database of immigration law violators and people of national security interest. Additionally, according to federal prosecutors, immigration benefit fraud may involve other criminal activity, such as income tax evasion, money laundering, production of fraudulent documents, and conspiracy. Also, organized crime groups have used sophisticated immigration fraud schemes, such as creating shell companies, to bring in aliens ostensibly as employees of these companies. In addition, a number of individuals linked to a hostile foreign power's intelligence service were found to have been employed as temporary alien workers on military research.” Unethical immigration law attorneys should be charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrats and in creating an unlawful climate that puts all of us at risk of terrorism. Why? Because o nce one of their clients obtains a temporary work authorization fraudulently, an alien can use it to obtain other valid identity documents such as a temporary social security card and a driver's license, thus facilitating their living and working in the United States . It is important to recognize, in the illegal immigration debate, who butters the immigration attorney's bread. The GAO found that the USCIS is completely unprepared to handle their 7.5 million case work load with their 3000 employees and this is made all the more unlikely given the management system shortfalls and the brazen level of corruption within the organization. Few if any of the present 500 allegations of criminal misconduct against agency employees will be prosecuted. The GAO finds the agency as it stands will be unable to handle the proposed Guest Worker Amnesty proposals bandied about by President Bush and a bi-partisan group of Senators influenced by tearful pleads accompanied by campaign contributions from employers who currently employ illegal aliens. USCIS mismanagement and corruption is a menace given that Donna Bucella , the Director of the federal Terrorist Screening Center said Tuesday that the agency maintains a list of 200,000 people known or suspected to be terrorists. She reported yesterday, March 14, 2006, that Police and other government workers in the U.S. have come in contact with terrorists or people suspected of foreign terror ties more than 6,000 times in the past 28 months. In addition, she said, that there have been about 28,000 matches worldwide, many of those from U.S. diplomatic outposts that screen applicants for visas to enter the United States . Does is seem to you that President Bush is doing all that is possible or necessary to secure our borders and to keep us safe from terrorism by enforcing immigration law? Can we trust the Senate with giving us a Guest Worker Amnesty program that is not tainted by political contributions from illegal alien employers? Can we trust that a Guest Worker Amnesty, if approved, would be adequately administered by the USCIS? Write and call your Senators and share with them your views on Guest Worker Amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens and 200,000 known terrorists, any one of whom could have already slipped through our unprotected borders, or planning to do so. It has been four and half years since the findings of the 9/11 Commission. Securing our borders was the number one concern of the Commission. None of its border security recommendation have been enacted much less even funded. That is why I decided to become a candidate for the California 41 st Assembly District. I need and welcome your support and contributions. The Field Poll of September 2005 shows 81% of Californians are concerned about illegal immigration. The Field Poll of March 2006 shows 57% of registered voters and 71% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of illegal immigration. We can win this race! Support candidates that stand for border security and immigration law enforcement at every level of government, our nation is in danger.
Tony Dolz
March 15, 2006
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#1. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
Shocked, I tell ya.
he GAO report exposes rampant immigration chaos and USCIS corruption. Michael Maxwell stepped down last month as director of the Office of Security at USCIS, and sought protection under the federal whistle-blower protection law. He claims that senior agency officials had been retaliating against him for telling Congress about what he described as serious national security vulnerabilities that persisted despite his warnings to those running the agency.” Yet another agency under Chertoff has been accused of mismanagement.. Another whistleblower?? More retaliation.. sure seems more than a pattern doesnt it?
Yippee!
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. ~George W. Bush
Yet another agency under Chertoff has been accused of mismanagement.. Another whistleblower?? More retaliation.. sure seems more than a pattern doesnt it? Whistleblowers and Patriots UNITE!
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. ~George W. Bush
Despite its "as in the four previous fiscal years, we were unable to express an opinion on the governmentwide consolidated financial statements because of certain material weaknesses in internal control and accounting and reporting issues. Why would they be in a unique position NOT to be produce a credible audit?? We are in such trouble.. and if this was a normal world these people would be packing their bags and getting on the next plane to SA.
"these people would be packing their bags and getting on the next plane to SA" Well, I had something else in mind, but I guess I could compromise. 8-) HOUSE AUDIT REVEALS GROSS WASTE AND MISMANAGEMENT 7 YEARS OF HELL AT HANDS OF IRS - Robert C. MacElvain - Links IRS Nightmares Get Senate Hearing "Currently, in a typical case assigned for audit, there are no assets, no signs of wealth, no evidence that would support a suspicion of higher unreported income. So when the IRS does initiate an audit on these people, these individuals were already only one short step away from being on the street," Long continued. "I can personally attest to the use of egregious tactics used by IRS revenue agents which are encouraged by members of the IRS management," Long said. "These tactics, which appear nowhere in the IRS manual, are used to extract unfairly assessed taxes from taxpayers, literally ruining families lives and businesses, all unnecessarily and sometimes illegally."
******** "As of late we seem to be auditing only poor people," said IRS agent Jennifer Long. "The current IRS management does not believe anyone in this country can possibly live on less than $20,000 a year, insisting that anyone below that level must be cheating by understating their true income. LOL!!! There is a war against the people on so many fronts..
I wonder daily, if the Comptroller General sees the following Tsunami coming, how much worse might it be? I mean, If no government department can have a signed off audit, and their books can't be balanced, how much worse might the Tsunami be? Comptroller General Of The US: "We Face A Demographic Tsunami That Will Never Recede" This stuff drives me crazy, I wish I could just watch important stuff
;P I dont see how we will ever recover .. unless some miracle takes place.. there are too many potentially disasterous issues all colliding at once..and we're in the middle ..
When we finally beat back the beast of the matrix, and spank the child of government back into its non brat phase, as well as legalizing all drugs, especially allowing the farmers to grow a real cash CROP called HEMP, we will finally be back on track. A free nation for all AMERICANs. pk
Poker Face - on the front line battle for our freedoms House Band of the 2nd American Revolution we all know is coming because of the treason in DC http://www.pokerface.com
Well if that would happen.. I'd never get anything done ;P
Well, the Republicans said they'd run government like a business - they just didn't tell us it would be Enron.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
hi Paul! i'm pinging IndieTx to your post cuz y'all have the same positive attitude and i was just telling him about our hope to get Poker Face down to Austin in May.
The WTC couldn't have come down without a conspiracy. The perps weren't exactly working independent of each other.~Arete
Whom will mow my lawn; wash & wax my cars; make my bed; and make my burritos?
I have always had good fortune in recruiting and hiring good clean-cut AMERICAN teenagers. 8-)
Good point about the American work force while potential candiates attend high school. Today's state laws basically prohibit the practice, at least in California.
My dog always pays them.
"Well, the Republicans said they'd run government like a business - they just didn't tell us it would be Enron." You ain't kiddin' Attorney General John Ashcroft Picks Arthur Andersen For FBI Review
Its tyranny when government ( on any level ) eliminates our own workforce while ensuring illegal aliens participate with plenty of taxpayer paid benefits. Why on Earth would our own government do this? The phrase, "tis fer da chilren" comes to mind.
"Why on Earth would our own government do this?" I have thought of this question for many years. Here's my simple answer. You can't have a one world government, if you have a vibrant functioning Constitutional Republic with an informed vigilant citizenry. Thus, They will destroy it.
How can a government sell to the American People an endless dream of endless fantasies about the purpose of government? Tax them to death. And then show that those taxes are not adequate to cover the costs of government to begin with. Of course, these actions are outside the constitutional restraints of government are outside the framework to begin with ... but the illusion is to placate the masses with endless self-serving assistance from a benevolent government. Oh and the leaders are for this pursuit. The government is a genie in modern America. It is a powerful "deity" by consent of the vote; even if it operates outside of the constitutional framework once established to constrain government. The "we" the people have been defeated by every other interest possible because of taxation manifestation.
"How can a government sell to the American People an endless dream of endless fantasies about the purpose of government? Tax them to death. And then show that those taxes are not adequate to cover the costs of government to begin with." Politicians are doing whatever they want. They would care less about what American people want. Most don't care about the purpose of government. How many Americans have actually sat down and even read the Constitution, let alone study it. When 50%+ of the American population don't pay federal income taxes, and, 61 percent of U.S. corporations pay no corporate income taxes between 1996 and 2000, most people don't care about the country, their government, the Constitution, but only their parasitical benefits. That puts a very heavy burden on those that are paying federal income taxes to basically supply the people/corporations receiving the benefits. The government means nothing more than getting something and the raised hand prayer for the government to protect them, which Benjamin Franklin said, "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." - Poor Richard's Almanack of 1738, which many have transformed to Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Franklin also said: "The best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.". And then there is the issue of a vast number of Americans that are woefully ignorant of so many things that are so vital to our Republic. "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Corruption in the government??? Say it isn't so! (We are STILL so screwed.)
"The "we" the people have been defeated by every other interest possible because of taxation manifestation." Yes, but when I see this, my heart sinks. See where tax concern is?
the GAO charges the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ...with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption.
#2. To: Uncle Bill (#0)
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – this is the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that would be in charge of proposed Guest Worker Amnesty – with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption.
#3. To: Uncle Bill, *The Border* (#0)
In a devastating report released today, the GAO charges the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – this is the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that would be in charge of proposed Guest Worker Amnesty – with a failed organizational infrastructure and massive mismanagement and corruption.
#4. To: Zipporah (#2)
Michael Maxwell stepped down last month as director of the Office of Security at USCIS, and sought protection under the federal whistle-blower protection law. He claims that senior agency officials had been retaliating against him for telling Congress about what he described as serious national security vulnerabilities that persisted despite his warnings to those running the agency.”
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#6. To: Uncle Bill (#5)
#7. To: Zipporah (#6)
"As of late we seem to be auditing only poor people," said IRS agent Jennifer Long. "The current IRS management does not believe anyone in this country can possibly live on less than $20,000 a year, insisting that anyone below that level must be cheating by understating their true income.
#8. To: Uncle Bill (#7)
Well, I had something else in mind, but I guess I could compromise. 8-)
#9. To: Zipporah (#8)
#10. To: Uncle Bill (#9)
his stuff drives me crazy, I wish I could just watch important stuff
#11. To: Zipporah (#10)
I dont see how we will ever recover .. unless some miracle takes place.. there are too many potentially disasterous issues all colliding at once..and we're in the middle ..
#12. To: pokerkid (#11)
When we finally beat back the beast of the matrix, and spank the child of government back into its non brat phase, as well as legalizing all drugs, especially allowing the farmers to grow a real cash CROP called HEMP, we will finally be back on track. A free nation for all AMERICANs. pk
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Starve the beast
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Thomas Jefferson - Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1787).
Thomas Jefferson
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