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   (The Center Square) – Under the Biden-Harris administration, a litany of   
   failures have been identified at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.   
      
   Multiple Office of Inspector General audits found a range of failures at DHS   
   and   
      
   Multiple Office of Inspector General audits identified a range of failures at   
   DHS and its subagencies, from vetting, to screening to releasing foreign   
   nationals the OIG has said increases national security threats. Its secretary,   
   Alejandro Mayorkas, was    
   impeached in February by House Republicans for dereliction of duty, including   
   the failures the OIG identified.   
      
   Congress established DHS through the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to   
   consolidate federal agency resources to better protect Americans from   
   terrorist threats and disasters after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.   
      
   The Homeland Security Act “requires DHS to provide situational awareness and   
   a common operating picture for the entire federal government,” and for   
   state, local, and tribal governments, related to terrorist acts, natural   
   disasters, or man-made    
   disasters.   
      
   “Recent incidents and disasters highlighted the need for situational   
   awareness throughout the Homeland Security Enterprise,” the OIG says, which   
   is why it audited DHS to determine if it was sharing “actionable information   
   on emerging threats with    
   its external partners.”   
      
   The OIG found that it wasn’t and DHS partners “did not always use DHS   
   technology to obtain emerging threat information.”   
      
   This is after members of Congress called on DHS to issue a National Terrorism   
   Advisory System Bulletin, which it hasn’t done since May 2023. The NTAS was   
   “designed to communicate information about terrorist threats by providing   
   timely, detailed    
   information to the American public.” When asked why it still hasn’t issued   
   one, DHS did not respond.   
      
   Congress has allocated billions of dollars for DHS technology to enable agents   
   to identify and share emerging threat information and maintain “real-time   
   situational awareness.” The audit found that DHS partners “did not always   
   use this technology    
   to obtain threat information,” were not always aware of technology   
   modernization or training efforts, DHS didn’t conduct outreach to support   
   partners and didn’t “always share information with partners in a timely   
   manner. As a result, “DHS    
   cannot always effectively share emerging threat information with partners,   
   which may limit … response to emerging threats against the homeland,” the   
   report found.   
      
   This was the latest among many DHS issues the OIG identified.   
      
   One OIG report found that individuals on the terrorist watchlist were being   
   released into the country because of DHS’ U.S. Custom and Border   
   Protections’ “ineffective practices and processes for resolving   
   inconclusive matches with the Terrorist    
   Watchlist led to multiple mistakes.”   
      
   This is as the greatest number of known or suspected terrorists have been   
   apprehended under the Biden-Harris administration. With more than 2 million   
   gotaways, those who illegally entered and evaded capture, law enforcement   
   officials have expressed    
   concerns about not knowing how many terrorists are in the country.   
      
   Another OIG report found that DHS didn’t properly vet Afghanistan nationals   
   admitted into the US., including those who were deemed “a risk to national   
   security.”   
      
   In another report, the OIG found that CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement were not detaining or removing inadmissibles flying into country,   
   raising national security alarms. Another report found that roughly 200,000   
   deportation cases were    
   dismissed because DHS failed to file paperwork.   
      
   In another, the OIG found that CBP and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration   
   Services vetting of asylum seekers was inadequate, they weren’t fully   
   screening or vetting noncitizens applying for admission into the U.S. and   
   still released them.   
      
   Despite this, President Joe Biden just announced via executive order that he   
   was expanding refugee application status to citizens and residents of multiple   
   countries on multiple continents worldwide.   
      
      
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