(The Center Square) – Under the Biden-Harris administration, a litany of failures have been identified at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Multiple Office of Inspector General audits identified a range of failures at DHS and its subagencies, from vetting, to screening to releasing foreign nationals the OIG has said increases national security threats. Its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, was impeached in February by House Republicans for dereliction of duty, including the failures the OIG identified.
Congress established DHS through the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to consolidate federal agency resources to better protect Americans from terrorist threats and disasters after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Homeland Security Act “requires DHS to provide situational awareness and a common operating picture for the entire federal government,” and for state, local, and tribal governments, related to terrorist acts, natural disasters, or man-made disasters.
“Recent incidents and disasters highlighted the need for situational awareness throughout the Homeland Security Enterprise,” the OIG says, which is why it audited DHS to determine if it was sharing “actionable information on emerging threats with its external partners.”
The OIG found that it wasn’t and DHS partners “did not always use DHS technology to obtain emerging threat information.”
This is after members of Congress called on DHS to issue a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, which it hasn’t done since May 2023. The NTAS was “designed to communicate information about terrorist threats by providing timely, detailed information to the American public.” When asked why it still hasn’t issued one, DHS did not respond.
Congress has allocated billions of dollars for DHS technology to enable agents to identify and share emerging threat information and maintain “real-time situational awareness.” The audit found that DHS partners “did not always use this technology to obtain threat information,” were not always aware of technology modernization or training efforts, DHS didn’t conduct outreach to support partners and didn’t “always share information with partners in a timely manner. As a result, “DHS cannot always effectively share emerging threat information with partners, which may limit … response to emerging threats against the homeland,” the report found.
This was the latest among many DHS issues the OIG identified.
One OIG report found that individuals on the terrorist watchlist were being released into the country because of DHS’ U.S. Custom and Border Protections’ “ineffective practices and processes for resolving inconclusive matches with the Terrorist Watchlist led to multiple mistakes.”
This is as the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended under the Biden-Harris administration. With more than 2 million gotaways, those who illegally entered and evaded capture, law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about not knowing how many terrorists are in the country.
Another OIG report found that DHS didn’t properly vet Afghanistan nationals admitted into the US., including those who were deemed “a risk to national security.”
In another report, the OIG found that CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not detaining or removing inadmissibles flying into country, raising national security alarms. Another report found that roughly 200,000 deportation cases were dismissed because DHS failed to file paperwork.
In another, the OIG found that CBP and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services vetting of asylum seekers was inadequate, they weren’t fully screening or vetting noncitizens applying for admission into the U.S. and still released them.
Despite this, President Joe Biden just announced via executive order that he was expanding refugee application status to citizens and residents of multiple countries on multiple continents worldwide.
In addition to DHS’ failed screening and vetting process, another OIG redacted report found that DHS “does not have assurance that all migrants can be located once they are released into the United States.”
Once released, for those who were provided housing, in one period of time evaluated, the OIG found that ICE wasted millions of taxpayer money on hotels not to house them.
When it comes to “unaccompanied alien children” (UACs) under the federal government’s care, DHS transfers them to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, HHS ORR.
The OIG for years has identified problems with this program. The OIG found that UACs were being sent to live with unvetted sponsors, background checks weren’t being performed on sponsors, children were being released to alleged gang members and human traffickers, ORR had lost track of roughly 100,000 children, and UACs were being used for child labor. It also found that ICE was “incapable of monitoring unaccompanied minors released into U.S.,” expressing alarm because “missing children are ‘considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.’”
Information about abuse and neglect that whistleblowers brought forward was so serious that U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, filed criminal complaints this year and introduced legislation to address the concerns, which Senate Democrats blocked.
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, unethical, lying, woke, socialist Democrat Party, their Democrat RINOs and their corrupt, demented, obedient sock-puppet president Joe Beijing OBiden/Harris administration has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
And the Democrat Party’s obedient, deranged, useful idiot servants want to vote this destructive enemy back in the White House.
I wonder how many more illegal immigrants these fools want to support?
And how much more do these fools want to pay for everything?
Only treason can be the reason for their governance malfeasance. More Obama Hillary type Saul Alinsky rules for radicals planned taking over the country;
2)Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible,
poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3)Debt
– Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
5)Welfare
– Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6)Education – Take control of what people read and listen
to – take control of what children learn in school.
7)Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government
and schools.
8)Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the
poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take Taxes from the wealthy with the support of the poor.
“Ridicule ( Trump) is man’s most potent weapon”.
“War is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.”
“Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live”.,,,(i.e. overwhelm the system by importing as much poverty as possible).
AND You can bet, NOT A SINGLE PERSON will even be FIRED, let alone JAILED over all of this.
“I wonder how many more illegal immigrants these fools want to support?”
The point of collapse, plus one.
AS MANY as possible.
Of course they’re not vetting people like they should. It’s hard to do when Biden’s and consequently Mayorkas’ only concern is getting people processed, which amounts to being rubber stamped and then released into the country. They care nothing at all about securing the border, stopping illegals from coming into the country, or keeping terrorist from coming in. Most of the money that Biden has requested for the border was earmarked for streamlining the process of processing the illegals He’s proposed only letting in a certain number of people a day but even the numbers that he’s proposed are too high. And now to top it off some places are trying to make it to where they can vote.
I can’t get my head around all the talk about the government (democrats) “failing” in their approach to immigration. This is not about “mismanagement”. They have done exactly what they wanted to do by allowing uncontrolled illegal immigration into the United States for the specific purposes of “buying” votes of those millions of illegal aliens in order to stay permanently in power. No one with any ability to add up 2 + 2 could possibly deny this as the purposeful intention of Biden and the democrats. Everyone of them should be on trial for treason.
Exactly, i was asked the other week by a reporter questioning folk outside homedepot our opinions on this immigration debacle, and she asked “So how do you think the govt has mismanaged this”..
I RESPONDED “they have not. THIS IS being done intentionally. Period!”.
you should have seen the look of abject disgust towards me, on her face, for DARING to say that.
DHS is a failure, all by itself, in its entirity. And a colossal failure at that.