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Republicans Want To Freeze New Citizenships Why?
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6:58Now PlayingA clerical error caused a few hundred immigrants to be listed as citizens and Republicans are freaking out. Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore, Michael Shure, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A House Republican introduced legislation to prevent the U.S. government from granting immigrants citizenship, responding to a report found that several hundred people slated for deportation were accidentally naturalized.
The bill, offered by Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) before Congress departed this week for its pre-election recess, would halt any new naturalizations until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finishes modernizing its fingerprint record database.
A DHS inspector general report made public this month stated that at least 858 people ordered to be deported were mistakenly granted citizenship because their digital fingerprint records weren’t in DHS or FBI databases. Some paper-based fingerprint records weren’t consistently converted into digital form.
However, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week that the number of people mistakenly granted citizenship wasactually closer to 750.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified missing fingerprint records for about 315,000 immigrants who were criminals or had been ordered deported, according to the inspector general report.
“It is absolutely outrageous that these 858 aliens were able to defraud the government because these paper based fingerprints were not uploaded,” Culberson said in a statement.
Johnson tried to downplay fears at the Senate hearing that the mistakenly naturalized immigrants would cause harm to the U.S.”*
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Hosts: Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore, Michael Shure, Brett Erlich
Cast: Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore, Michael Shure, Brett Erlich
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