If you put a visa fraudster in charge of immigration and naturalization, don’t be surprised if he says the government mustn’t strip a foreigner of fraudulently obtained citizenship.
The fraudster is Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He’s pushing a proposal, the Washington Times has reported, to permit immigrants who obtain citizenship fraudulently to keep it.
That fits Mayorkas’ modus operandi. He finagled fraudulent visas for rich Chinese businessmen when he worked for President Barack Hussein Obama. The Cuban leftist knows a fellow-traveling fraudster when he sees one — and how to help him.
Draft Memo
The proposal, the Times’s Steve Dinan reported, is in a draft memorandum that went to fellow subversives who run three immigration agencies, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
“The memo says people might not apply for citizenship because they worry about losing it in the future,” Dinan reported:
“Naturalized citizens deserve finality and security in their rights as citizens,” the memo says. “Department policies should not cause a chilling effect or barriers for lawful permanent residents seeking to naturalize.”
Denaturalization is a part of federal law. It requires a court order and can be filed either as the result of a criminal case or a civil lawsuit.
The memo says the department should limit its denaturalization cases to instances of national security threats, major felons such as sex crime convicts or human rights violators, or cases of fraud “with aggravating factors.”
Cases the department is currently pursuing could be canceled under the draft memo.
Mayorkas’ move, Dinan reported, is yet another attack on President Trump’s sensible policies that greatly curtailed illegal border crossings. Having canceled Remain In Mexico, now the leftist Cuban would end Trump’s effort denaturalize foreigners who obtained citizenship fraudulently.
Mayorkas wouldn’t ban denaturalization outright. But he did conoct “a list of criteria to weed out cases, including whether bogus citizens had attorneys at the time, whether they have family that relies on them or whether they have ‘medical issues.’”
Though the new policy wouldn’t let murderers or war criminals become citizens, it will “protect more run-of-the-mill bogus citizenship cases,” Dinan reported:
Even then, efforts to strip citizenship have averaged only about a dozen a year during the Bush and Obama administrations. That rose to at least 30 cases in 2017, according to the National Immigration Forum.
A 2016 inspector general’s report identified hundreds of people who had been deported, sneaked back into the U.S. and were granted citizenship under new identities.
USCIS did not flag their cases because the fingerprint cards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the deportation agency, were in paper form and weren’t being checked.
After the inspector general’s probe, USCIS conducted a broader review and found even more cases.
In 2018, the agency established a denaturalization task force in Los Angeles. The agency’s director at the time said he expected “potentially a few thousand cases” to be sent to the Justice Department for denaturalization.
In 2020, the Justice Department announced a new section dedicated to denaturalization cases.
Read that one again: U.S. officials conferred citizenship on thousands of fraudsters.
Robert Law, who worked at USCIS during the Trump administration, told Dinan that “no one will be pursuing civil denaturalization cases.”
“Mayorkas is saying that citizenship really is meaningless and that immigration fraud is rewarded,” said Law, who works at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Biden shut down the task force in Los Angeles, Law told Dinan.
Mayorkas’ Visa Fraud
But again, the latest from Mayorkas comports with his shady past when he worked for Obama, whose own citizenship was a matter of some debate.
CIS’s Todd Bensman recalled Mayorkas’ corrupt managment of USCIS. Employees at DHS blew the whistle on Mayorkas’ fraudulent visa factory, Bensman reported.
The Cuban-born leftist provided “‘special access and special favors’ to a handful of EB-5 visa applicants who were wealthy foreign national associates of powerful U.S. Democratic figures and office-holders doing the asking,” Bensman reported:
Many of the investors seeking EB-5 visas were Chinese nationals hoping to sink millions into:
Film projects with connections to former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, the mayor of Los Angeles, and Hollywood businessmen in late 2011.
A hotel and casino project in Las Vegas that was being pushed by U.S. Democratic Sen. Harry Reid in 2013 on behalf of some law clients of the senator’s son, Rory.
An industrial investment fund’s proposed hybrid vehicle factory in Virginia promoted by former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodham, from 2011 through 2013.
The OIG [Office of Inspector General] concluded that in these three cases Mayorkas “exerted improper influence in the normal processing and adjudication” of the visas, “inserted himself in unprecedented ways” in the adjudication process, and “intervened with the career USCIS staff in ways that clearly benefited the stakeholders.”
“In each of these three instances, but for Mr. Mayorkas’s intervention,” the report summary noted, “the matter would have been decided differently.”
None of the visa applicants would ever consent to OIG interviews, nor were the investigators ever able to find Mayorkas’s emails and internal communications.
