Whoops, We Did It Again: DHS Loses 100,000+ Files Including Potential Terrorists

"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has lost track of 111,000 files in 14 of the agency's busiest district offices and processed as many as 30,000 citizenship applications last year without the necessary files, congressional investigators reported yesterday. The Government Accountability Office, Congress's audit arm, conducted the review at the request of Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) after U.S. authorities granted citizenship in 2002 to a man without checking his primary file. The file, which was lost, indicated ties to the militant Islamic group Hezbollah," the Washington Post reports. "'It only takes one missing file of somebody with links to a terrorist organization to become an American citizen,' said Grassley, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. 'We can't afford to be handing out citizenship with blinders on.'"

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