Obama’s ICE Didn’t Follow Procedure For Checking Illegal Immigrants’ Ties to Terrorism

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The full disastrous effect of the Obama administration will not be felt or fully known for quite some time. He has planted any number of ticking time bombs in the American body politic. One year of President Trump has done a great deal to undo the damage, but there is a great deal more that must be done. There is an unknowable number of illegals now in the country who have ties tl terrorism, including jihad groups, and Obama welcomed them. If even one is not tracked down and deported now, people could be murdered. That’s Obama’s legacy.

“Obama’s ICE Didn’t Follow Procedure For Checking Illegal Immigrants’ Ties to Terrorism,” by Elizabeth Harrington, Washington Free Beacon, January 16, 2018:

During the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not following proper procedures when checking if illegal aliens were known terrorists, jeopardizing national security, according to an audit.

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The office of inspector general found that between 2013 and 2015, ICE was not screening illegal immigrants who had been released for terrorist ties. Every single case of a suspected terrorist reviewed by the inspector general included errors, where ICE officials were not in compliance with security standards.

“ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) faces challenges in implementing the Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounter Protocol (KSTEP) screening process, which is used to identify aliens who may be known or suspected terrorists,” the inspector general said. “Although ERO uses KSTEP to screen all aliens who are in ICE custody, ERO policy does not require continued screening of the approximately 2.37 million aliens when released and under ICE supervision.”

Between 2013 and 2015 there were 142 cases of illegal immigrants who were detained and identified as “known or suspected terrorists.” The inspector general reviewed 40 of those cases.

“All 40 files had at least one instance of noncompliance with KSTEP policy, generating greater concerns regarding the population of aliens screened and determined to have no connections to terrorism,” the inspector general said.

In addition to not following security protocols, the majority of ICE field offices do not have access to the Department of Homeland Security’s classified networks, which enables them to “communicate about derogatory information related to known or suspected terrorists.”

“As a result, ERO may be missing opportunities to identify, take into custody, communicate status of, and make decisions on those aliens who pose the highest risk to national security and public safety,” the inspector general said.

Of the 40 cases reviewed under the audit, nearly half were missing required background checks while the illegal alien was detained.

“ERO is to conduct separate biographic and biometric queries on every alien taken into custody and/or released,” the inspector general said. “However, in these instances, at least one of the required queries was either run by non-ERO personnel, was not performed while the subject was in ICE custody, or was not applied.”

In addition, ICE did not always run initial background checks, “contact the appropriate external personnel at the required points in the process,” or “fully document its actions.”

ICE blamed these deficiencies on “limited program oversight and weak management controls.”

In 10 cases, ICE had not completed requirements for “reporting aliens confirmed as known or suspected terrorists,” including not placing a hard copy noting the alien’s terrorism ties in their case file.

ICE warned that the problem is continuing into the Trump administration, noting the agency has identified “at least 19 more cases since January 2016 when field personnel did not transmit the required incident reports to ICE headquarters.”…

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Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

I gather that it is true that all ex-Potus’s are immune from prosecution no matter what? If so it looks like this swine will never pay for the damage. Unlike carter whose damage was from his excessive bleeding heart benevolence and almost rectified by Reagan, , Obama’s damage will take decades to correct if ever, and it was done on purpose in the name of that bastard coalition of opposing ideas with similar totalitarian aims and methods: lefto-islamic fascism.
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joe1429
joe1429
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Thank you… He ruined race relations also in this country for a long time to come… what a bastard

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
6 years ago
Reply to  joe1429

He did nothing but ruin everything he touched. Too bad he is not paying for it.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
6 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

He was selected and elected by dimmocrats, and they should pay for doing it to this great country. I hope that all dimmocrats will be eliminated for good and never come back from the he!! they have created.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

“EVERY Muslim is a potential ‘terror’ist https://quran.com/8/12-17 so long they follow the ‘terror’ist https://quran.com/3/151 muh.” @AliSinaOrg, ex-Muslim -> ‘… kill them wherever you find them’ https://quran.com/4/89

http://schnellmann.org/terrorist-number-one.html

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

I disagree, Thorsten. Strike “potential” and I am in full agreement.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Every wishy-washy Muslim can become a DEVOUT terrorist OVER NIGHT

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

Every moslem IS a terrorist. It does NOT take “over night”. A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. They are ALL the same.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

Of course they didn’t. Muslim terrorists are Obama’s peeps.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
6 years ago

obama claimed two more victims in his ongoing war against the United States with the deaths of two Army Apache helicopter pilots in a training accident in California Saturday.
The still classified “memo,” that 65 Republicans and ONE Democrat have bothered to read summarizing, the high crimes and manifold violations of oaths among appointed DOJ and FBI officials, I predict, will ultimately point all fingers at our last black president, our last muslim president — “obama.”
ALSO: Rice, Jarrett, Power, Lynch, Holder, Kerry, Clinton, Rhodes, Earnest, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, et. al.
The whole ignominious junta.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Chris Wolf

Amen.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

Barry was elected because negroes are relentless victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere and that explains everything.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

Like his father, Obama is a Communist first and a Muslim second. Obama is also a bisexual druggie.
All he does is show his disdain for the U.S. and western culture. Look at Harry. He is a weak one. Obama sniffs them out. One of Obama’s first acts was to send the Churchill bust BACK to the U.K.. Leave it to Harry to embrace Obama. His whore finance will have the most patriotic Brit wanting to dissolve the monarchy.

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I agree . He was a bastard.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

Obama and his administration were hell-bent on the ruination of this Republic. ICE was one aspect of the entire plot to undermine the nation and its Constitution. This subversive cabal continues with the cynical ploy by today’s Democrats regarding immigration, never illegal-immigration. The facts about Obama’s ICE not following protocol will never be spoken or whispered by the Fifth Column, the MSM. The Democrats are power-hungry mobsters whose sole intent is to usurp Trump and the nation’s downfall.

Obama and his mindless minions deserve indictment; however, they continue to be enabled and empowered by subversive elements Obama embedded in the FBI, DOJ and other government agencies. Obama is the same like as the Jihadis and Marxists. Ironically, in the fetid eyes of the progressives and Islam, a Traitor is revered.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

They probably followed the rules of the day, which excluded everyone except muslims, with extra points awarded for the criminally insane ones.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

It is so bad the Obama forbid ICE and others from looking at their JIHADI Facebook pages! The slaughter in San Bernadino could have been prevented had they been PERMITTED to look at HER Facebook page. It was riddled with PRO ISIS and JIHADI propaganda!

Facebook had NO PROBLEM with PRO ISIS and JIHADI pages and still doesn’t. Yet pro American and anti- Islam pages are taken down!

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

All the more reason FB should be abandoned by freedom-loving Americans.

joe1429
joe1429
6 years ago

Big surprise here… from our muslum former president…

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
6 years ago

Obama was the enemy of America so nothing should surprise any of us. I hope he will roast in hell for eternity.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
6 years ago

He was invited!!! That is why we should destroy the democrat party for selecting and electing him.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Had Immigration done their job under Obhammud, the female San Bernardino shooter would have been denied entry to the US since it was discovered, well after the fact, that the foreign address she used on her visa application was fake.

I have said from the outset that President Trump is like a college foootball coach taking over a failing program. There is so much he will have to undo before he can set about changing the losing culture in order to install a winning philosophy. Such is playing out before our eyes.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago

Oh but they did. Odamit wanted people like this to help him take over the country. He had immigration looking for people like her to invite them into our country. They just did the job he TOLD them to do. ……NOW FIRE THE SUCKERS…..all of them.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Ohhhh…. the Negro is a lefty. You can’t expect him or his kind to be moral. Just look at them. They way they act to the white in shining armor.

All the slime is oozing out from their mouths.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

I am more than happy to see the Democrat party destroy itself.

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago

I agree

John Forbes
John Forbes
6 years ago

The OBAMA/HILLARY ADMINISTRATION was not in the least interested in TRACKING TERRORISTS!
Their FOCUS was getting more into the GLOBALIST ENTERPRISE with the EU & GEORGE SOROS & Americans must never for get that!

Dorrie
Dorrie
6 years ago

I’m not saying you’re wrong, because I don’t know, but I DO wonder how you know this about Barry. He WAS seen in a homosexual bath house in Chicago, but how do you khnow Michele is a transexual or if Barry has not had relations with any women?

It wouldn’t surprise me, but how do you KNOW these things???

Apparently you DON’T, or you would have answered my question! *SMH*

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