The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denounced a Democratic congresswoman on July 8 after a report alleged that she used taxpayer money to send her staff to Mexico to coach migrants on ways to exploit loopholes in the asylum system and enter the United States.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli was responding to a report by The Washington Examiner that claimed that Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) has been sending congressional aides to Juarez, Mexico, to find asylum-seekers who were returned to Mexico and help them exploit loopholes in asylum laws by making false claims. The report cited anonymous Customs and Border Protection personnel, members of the National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter, and immigration documents, including a form bearing Escobar’s congressional seal.
