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Feds Should Continually Monitor Asylum-Seekers to Stop ‘Significant Threats’: IG Report

Vehicle passengers coming through ports of entry aren’t screened either, according to an Inspector General examination of DHS border security.
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Feds Should Continually Monitor Asylum-Seekers to Stop ‘Significant Threats’: IG Report
Migrants walk along the highway through Arriaga, Chiapas state in southern Mexico during their journey north toward the U.S. border on Jan. 8, 2024. Edgar H. Clemente/AP Photo
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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The watchdog arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found holes in the vetting process for illegal immigrants seeking asylum and for noncitizens at entry ports that created “significant threats to public safety and national security,” according to a report released this month by DHS’s Office of Inspector General (IG).

“Until the department addresses these challenges, DHS will remain at risk of admitting dangerous persons into the country or enabling asylum-seekers who may pose significant threats to public safety and national security to continue to reside in the United States,” the report states.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.