What bureaucracy has wrought
Article 1:
(AP) 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 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. (more…)
Within a week (read on!)
Article 2:
(postchronicle.com) A four-count federal indictment was delivered by a grand jury against a U.S. citizen and a Pakistani national illegally in the country on an expired student visa for a conspiracy to aid the Taliban, according to a U.S. Attorney in Houston.
Kobie Diallo Williams, also known as Abdul Kabeer and Abdul Kabir, 33, a U.S. citizen and Houston resident, and Adnan Babar Mirza, 29, a Pakistani national who overstayed a student visa, are charged with conspiring to train with firearms with a goal to fight with the Taliban against coalition forces in the Middle East and providing approximately $350 in cash to support terrorist groups. (more…)
