Immigration files missing

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - About 30,000 applications from immigrants seeking citizenship were processed by the government even though thousands of background files used to determine eligibility were missing, congressional investigators found.

Details of the investigation by the Government Accountability Office were released by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Susan Collins of Maine Tuesday.

According to the GAO, 14 Citizenship and Immigration Services offices were missing 110,000 so-called alien files, or A-files. Such files contain applications and other documents of some noncitizens and serve as the primary file for the immigrant and help determine eligibility.

Grassley and Collins said the citizenship and immigration offices, which are part of the Department of Homeland Security, rely on A-files to help determine eligibility for immigration benefits. The files are used by homeland security and law enforcement agencies during criminal investigations and to decide whether someone should remain in the U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_go_ot/missing_files

[Sapphocrat]

1. !!!

:tinfoilhat:

[Old and In the Way]

2. More Republican mismanagement.

Surprised that these are Republicans bringing this to our attention.

[aquart]

3. Don't they...uh...have a system for ...you know...filing?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. You can have the greatest filing system in the world, but if

they ever leave the file room...and they do, you can count on at least 5% getting "lost"... sometimes as much as 10%.

[lovuian]

4. 110,000 terorists and drug lords with no files are any

security... A secret army invasion

[FreakinDJ]

5. A bi-product of outsoursing

Private contractors working in the California Service Center were caught and convicted of shredding files.

When private companies become involved the bottom line becomes more important then the people they are supposed to serve

[Life Long Dem]

7. Look at H1B’s

Rubber stamping visa applications.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/immigration/060926im22m.html