DHS approved Tren de Aragua gang members as refugees

[excalibur]

The gross incompetence is astonishing.

Or?

Or, is this deliberate, to get shock troops into America? These clowns are paramilitary, not just some gangbangers.

​

Homeland Security greenlighted refugee applications for Venezuelan gang members after immigration officers failed to spot their gang tattoos, The Washington Times has learned. ​

Kevin Grigsby, head of refugee operations at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said “several” members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang were approved and made it to the U.S. border before a different agency spotted the tattoos and blocked them from entering.​

​

Experts said tattoos are a common indicator of gang membership and expressed shock that USCIS was missing those red flags, particularly given the heightened concerns about TDA, whose members have been linked to a series of high-profile crimes.​

​

Mr. Grigsby, in an email obtained by The Times, scolded his employees for failing to do basic checks.​

​

“Unfortunately we did not ask about the tattoos during our adjudication or did not identify that the tattoos asked about were consistent with gang membership,” he wrote in the Sept. 16 message. “The potential entry of suspected gang members into the United States represents a serious public safety concern that we need to make sure we are being vigilant against.”​

​

“This is one of the most absurd things I’ve seen,” she said. “We have a real problem with importing gangs here. That got a whole lot worse over the last 3.5 years. This is a stunning national security failure.”​

​

Emilio Gonzalez, who ran USCIS in the Bush administration, called the lapse “scandalous.”​

​

“It is egregious that the Biden-Harris administration knowingly continues to admit individuals that belong to transnational criminal organizations whose only purpose is to enter the United States and prey on U.S. citizens,” he said.​

​

He said there’s no way to know how many TDA members managed to sneak in under the radar.​

​

...​

‘Stunning security failure’: U.S. agents miss Venezuelan gang tattoos in scan for refugee approvals

Homeland Security greenlighted refugee applications for Venezuelan gang members after immigration officers failed to spot their gang tattoos, The Washington Times has learned.

www.washingtontimes.com

Rosemary Jenks, policy director at the Immigration Accountability Project and a close observer of USCIS, called the snafu unforgivable.

---

 

[Polishprince]

What's this "scolding" bullshit about anyhow?

If it was truly incompetence, the incompetent staff would have been fired no questions asked.

My guess is that the Biden Harris Regime is just covering their asses and the instructions passed down to the DHS staff was to ignore gang tattoos so these "socially friendly" types can be admitted and put on a fast track to citizenship.

The "scolding" was just a charade. If Mr. Grigsby was serious there would have been men fired and pensions cancelled over this kind of thing. Government employees generally do what they are told because they have a sweet situation they don't want to **** up.

 

[toobfreak]

DHS approved Tren de Aragua gang members as refugees

No doubt many of these fine men will grow up be future democrat congressmen!