Feds Admit ‘U Visa’ Program for Illegal Aliens Is Rife with Fraud, Forgery
A federal visa program, created for illegal aliens who claim to be crime victims, is filled with fraud and forgery, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General (IG) reveals.
The IG report reviewed the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) handling of the U visa program that was created to provide illegal aliens with a route to secure lawful permanent residence, a green card, to remain in the U.S.
As part of its findings, the IG report revealed that the U visa is rife with fraud and forgery where illegal aliens regularly secure visas despite being ineligible or their crime claims having not been fully vetted.
“Congress created the U visa program to protect victims and help law enforcement investigate and prosecute serious crimes,” the report states:
However, USCIS did not adequately manage the U visa program. First, USCIS did not fully address U visa program fraud risks. For example, we identified 10 USCIS approved petitions with forged, unauthorized, altered or suspicious law enforcement certifications. USCIS also did not track outcomes of U visa program fraud referrals. As a result, individuals may be discouraged from reporting suspected fraud and USCIS may miss opportunities to address fraud risks in the program. [Emphasis added]
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USCIS did not fully address U visa program fraud risks. We asked 125 law enforcement offices to confirm whether the signature on Supplement B forms certified by their office, was that of an authorized signer. Law enforcement officials confirmed four certifications had forged signatures and three had unauthorized signatures. Federal regulations require a petitioner to submit a Supplement B form with an authorized signature certifying that, under penalty of perjury, the petitioner is a victim of a qualifying crime. [Emphasis added]
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The issues identified occurred because USCIS has not taken steps to address and implement recommendations from previous internal and external U visa program reviews. [Emphasis added]
In one example, the IG report showed an instance where an illegal alien altered their U visa application to claim that they were the victim of a “felonious assault” which was not certified by a law enforcement official:
Additionally, the IG report shows that USCIS officials have been violating federal law by issuing more U visas than legally allowed.
Every year, up to 10,000 illegal aliens can secure U visas. The IG report found that USCIS has been over-issuing U visas for at least two decades beyond the 10,000 cap.
“USCIS is prohibited from granting U visas to more than 10,000 principal petitions in a fiscal year … we found the reported number of U visas granted exceeded the statutory cap by different amounts from fiscal years 2010 to 2020,” the IG report reveals.
Biden’s DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, hugely opened a pipeline for illegal aliens simply applying for U visas, not those actually approved, by promising them work permits, welfare, Social Security Numbers, and deportation exemptions last year.
Former President Obama took similar actions, securing a side-door amnesty for about 140,000 illegal aliens who merely applied for U visas.
In 2019, a similar IG report showed that since October 2013 potentially 2,200 illegal aliens had posed as domestic abuse victims in order to secure visas to remain in the U.S. as part of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
For years, Breitbart News has chronicled fraud in the U visa program.
An illegal alien, in 2020, pleaded guilty to helping secure U visas for other illegal aliens who faked crimes like stabbings and assaults to pose as victims. Last year, an illegal alien was arrested for allegedly faking a kidnapping and rape scenario to pose as a crime victim and secure a U visa.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
DHS: 6-in-7 Illegal Aliens Released into U.S. by Biden Are Evading Deportation
Most border crossers and illegal aliens freed into the United States interior by President Joe Biden’s administration are evading deportation, new government data reveals.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data comes after inquiries from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has sought the total number of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior in the first 12 months of Biden’s presidency.
DHS continues to hide the figure. The last estimate suggests that Biden released a total of 530,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior from January 20, 2021 to late October 2021.
The newest data disproves remarks made by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wherein he claimed in a Senate hearing that “approximately 75 percent” of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior with Notices to Appear (NTAs) in immigration court and Notices to Report (NTRs) to a DHS field office are complying with the reporting requirements.
Compliance with the reporting requirements is necessary to ensure that border crossers and illegal aliens are placed into deportation proceedings.
Contrary to Mayorkas’s claims, the DHS data reveals that in five months from March to August 2021, more than half of the border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior with NTRs have not complied with the requirements to report to the agency.
Of more than 104,000 released with NTRs during that time, less than 50,000 have checked in with DHS, while more than 54,000 have skipped out on the reporting requirement.
Even for border crossers and illegal aliens complying with the reporting requirement, Biden’s DHS has issued few NTAs to jumpstart deportation proceedings. For instance, only about 15.6 percent of border crossers and illegal aliens released with an NTR have later been given an NTA to appear before an immigration court to face deportation.
The other roughly 85 percent of border crossers and illegal aliens are successfully evading deportation from the U.S. by ditching the reporting requirements. The number of border crossers and illegal aliens evading deportation could be even higher as many could skip out on their immigration court date issued to them via the NTA.
In 2019, a federal pilot program that tracked the reporting rates of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior showed similar failures with compliance.
At that time, the Justice Department data found that nearly 90 percent of border crossers and illegal aliens were skipping out on their court dates to instead live illegally in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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