WT: Some 175 immigrants were approved for citizenship even though their names weren’t properly run through the FBI’s name-check databases, potentially missing red flags that may have disqualified them from naturalization, the Obama administration admitted this weekend.
Homeland Security officials blamed computer code for the problem, which affected about 15,000 applications in total.
The problem was significant enough that the government halted all naturalization ceremonies already in the pipeline and banned U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers from approving new citizenship applications beginning on Nov. 29, when officials acknowledged the problem in an internal email that was later obtained by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.
In the internal email, Daniel M. Renaud, associate director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, ordered all officers “not to approve or oath any naturalization cases in ELIS,” referring to the Electronic Immigration System that serves as the case management system for processing applications.
“At this point we are not confident that proper FBI Name Checks have been run on certain ELIS cases. At this point we are uncertain of the scope of the problem,” he wrote. more
“……..At this point we are uncertain of the scope of the problem,”
Typical bureaucratic response. It’s not until their shoes get wet that they notice the ship is sinking.
Let’s face it, Obama would absolutely LOVE a terrorist attack during Trump’s presidency.
He would transfer the Gitmo prisoners to West Palm Beach if he could.
Hell, maybe his buddy Bill Ayers can come out of terrorist retirement?
Hmmm, I wonder why they “admitted” this on the weekend? Is it because they hope it misses the news cycle? In any event I hope they are reviewing the ones that were granted citizenship and revoking it (with apologies) where the person would not have been granted in the first place had the process been working. In addition they need to review and backtrack the code they say was responsible to determine why it failed to function and why the QA process failed and discipline people as necessary.
Gosh, it almost looks deliberate. Naaaah, couldn’t be.
If the illegals voted Republican, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
@Andy’s dad – not only that, but they’re too stoopid to pour the water outta their shoes even tho the instructions are right there on the heel!
Well, that’s because it’s not immigration, it’s an invasion. As he planned from day one. Sorry folks, you’re gonna have to go back.
Is it just me, or does Obummer’s signature, turned up, looks like a dick?
Let’s not mince words nor motives. These are conscripts in Obama’s muslim invasion force and at some point in time they will coordinate attacks on infrastructure, etc.
That’s what’s called in techie circles “a lie.” Computer code is always blameless because it doesn’t write itself.
The blame belongs with the coder, the code checker, the developer, the unit tester, the system tester, the integration tester, the system analyst, the user acceptance tester, and their direct supervisors and managers. That comes to 16 people who share the blame, and that’s assuming those roles are performed by only one person.
You can always recognize IT bullshitters by their constant use of the phrase “computer glitch” or one of its variants.
Having spent my professional career mostly in one or another of those 16 jobs, I *ahem* do know what the Hell I’m talking about.
Are they sure it wasn’t………………..
THE RUSSIANS !!