There is more, but please visit the Washington Examinerand help drive their numbers. “People … are going to do anything they can to access it,” he said to Reuters. Is Hetfield saying that the ends justify the means?įar too often, both the governmental and semiprivate power brokers within the industry consistently found ways to ignore, and at times cover up, the fraud and abuse.Ĭommenting on the Iraqi investigation, Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, one of the nine federally funded refugee contractors that implement refugee resettlement, called resettlement a scarce and valuable commodity. I witnessed widespread exploitation and misuse from identity fraud and marriage and family relation scams to private individuals profiting from their involvement in USRAP and the distortion of the actual refugee definition to ensure greater numbers of people who were simply migrants were admitted as refugees. Sadly, the refugee resettlement industry, which morphed into a numbers-driven, financially motivated business, grew blindly at the expense of the public and our national security.During my eight years as a State Department refugee admissions coordinator who served throughout the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and Cuba, I saw firsthand the flagrant abuses and scams that permeated the resettlement program.
These are but a few of the scandals that have plagued the USRAP since its inception more than 40 years ago. To date, at least for the Somalis, it appears that none of these fraudsters have been prosecuted or deported despite violating federal law and swindling the refugee program. Similarly, as many as 1,700 individuals who posed as Burmese “refugees” gained fraudulent entry into our country a decade later by falsifying their own data or using the personal information of other persons. in the early 2000s under false identities. As early as the 1990s, fraudulent refugee claims were commonplace in the in-country refugee program in Cuba, which ultimately resettled more than 90,000 Cubans, and among the over 36,000 Somalis who entered the U.S. The inquiry, although being called one of the “biggest fraud investigations in recent history,” is only one in a long line of resettlement scandals. as “refugees,” while tens of thousands of others are pending resettlement. At least 500 Iraqis have already entered the U.S.
authorities are pursuing what they termed a “sweeping fraud investigation” of potentially more than 100,000 Iraqis. Refugee Admissions Program, history is simply repeating itself - as it appears that the massive deception inherent in the Iraqi resettlement program can no longer be willfully ignored. Instead, the actual shock is that the State Department is finally admitting to what has long been known.ĭisturbingly, in terms of the fraud-laden U.S. The State Department’s recent admission that thousands of Iraqis likely filed fraudulent refugee applications for resettlement in the United States is not a surprise. Mary Doetsch at the Washington Examiner (emphasis is mine): The Iraqi refugee fraud is just one of many scandals
Now a former State Department officer comes forward with a first hand account of the Iraqi fraud and charges that the entire program involving refugees from many continents is riddled with fraud. State Department Admits Massive Fraud in Iraqi Refugee Program Recently we reported on the news from Reutersthat a massive fraud investigation is underway involving the admission of Iraqi so-called ‘refugees’ to the US.
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Here we see that since the parents in this story can’t immediately jump into professional lives here, one has opted to return to Kurdistan-TO WHERE THEY CLAIMED THEY WERE NOT SAFE! in order to keep money flowing to the family back here being supported partially by US taxpayers.įrom AP: Workforce barriers keep refugees out of health care field This sob story from the Associated Pres s is meant to make naïve readers feel so very sorry for educated refugees, some in medical fields, who can’t get work here because they must get US licenses to practice (so that they can compete against your kids coming out of medical schools with degrees that cost you a fortune to provide).īut that isn’t the angle that interested me most in this report.įirst and foremost, when someone is admitted as a refugee to the US under the US Refugee Admissions Program they are affirming that they can never return to their home country due to a legitimate fear of being persecutedfor one of several factors-religious, racial, political among them.
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