{"id":1636831,"date":"2022-09-08T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636831"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:26:45","slug":"homeland-security-may-have-allowed-dangerous-unvetted-afghans-into-us-inspector-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeland-security-may-have-allowed-dangerous-unvetted-afghans-into-us-inspector-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security May Have Allowed Dangerous, Unvetted Afghans Into US: Inspector General"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhomeland-security-may-have-allowed-dangerous-unvetted-afghans-into-us-inspector-general%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636831&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to fully vet some of the\u00a0nearly 80,000 Afghan citizens who were brought to the United States as part of the evacuation of Afghanistan that began\u00a0in August 2021, potentially allowing individuals who pose a national security risk into the country, according to a government report.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0DHS\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG)\u00a0conducted an audit to determine the extent to which the department \u201cscreened, vetted, and inspected\u201d the evacuees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined some information used to vet evacuees through U.S. Government databases, such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data were inaccurate, incomplete, or missing,\u201d the OIG said in its Sept. 6 report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oig.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/2022-09\/OIG-22-64-Sep22-Redacted.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also determined [Customs and Border Patrol] admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.\u201d As a consequence, the DHS may have admitted individuals into the country who pose a risk to national security and threaten the safety of local communities, the OIG warned.<\/p>\n<p>The audit found that of the 88,977 evacuee records inspected, 417 didn\u2019t have first names, 242 lacked last names, and 11,110 had their date of birth recorded as Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 7,800 records had missing or invalid travel document numbers, while 36,400 records had a \u201cfacilitation document\u201d as the travel document type. During the audit, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) couldn\u2019t define what the \u201cfacilitation document\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>One evacuee paroled into the United States by CBP was earlier liberated from an Afghan prison by the Taliban. Another evacuee paroled into the country posed national security concerns. CBP allowed 35 evacuees to board a flight to the United States even though they lacked a status card required for travel.<\/p>\n<p> Admitting Potential Threats <\/p>\n<p>During a recent daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?522688-1\/white-house-briefs-monkeypox-response\">briefing<\/a>, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that the DHS OIG report didn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to fully vet some of the\u00a0nearly 80,000 Afghan citizens who were brought to the United States as part of the evacuation of Afghanistan that began\u00a0in August 2021, potentially allowing individuals who pose a national security risk into the country, according to a government report. 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