They Just Don't Get It

One of the areas where Marco Rubio is betraying this nation in his amnesty proposal with the Gang of Eight is the issue of non-immigrants, e.g. aliens admitted to the United States for certain specific purposes such as employment, tourism, and business.  Approximately 40% of the illegal alien population in the United States is those who enter legally in a non-immigrant category  but then overstay the period of admission.  Rubio claims that he is dealing with it in his amnesty scheme, but again he lies, and the Senate Judiciary Committee just showed how feckless his claims of having a proposal that is tough on enforcement.

USA Today May 14, 2013 by Alan Gomez 

A Senate Committee Rejected A Proposal To Collect Fingerprints Of Foreigners Leaving U.S. 

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee debating a sweeping immigration law Tuesday rejected a proposal from a Republican senator to collect the fingerprints of foreigners departing from the United States as a way to locate foreigners who stay beyond their time limits. 

Senators voted on a wide range of issues Tuesday, including closer monitoring of student visas following the Boston Marathon bombing, the use of drones along the southwest border, work visas for highly-skilled immigrants and the total number of immigrants allowed into the country. But members of the so-called Gang of Eight senators who drafted the immigration bill dodged a major bullet when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted down the proposal to fingerprint all departing passengers... 

The proposed overhaul requires that the Department of Homeland Security complete a system to collect the biographic information — such as name and date of birth — of all people leaving the country. 

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., proposed amending the bill to require Homeland Security to also check the biometric data — such as fingerprints and iris scans — of people leaving the country so the government knows exactly who is leaving and, more importantly, who has remained in the country in violation of their visas. 

Sessions said the program, which has been mandated by Congress several times starting in 2001, was the most effective way to know who's in the country illegally.

Unfortunately though, both Rubio and Sessions are wrong on the mechanics of dealing with the overstay issue and, importantly, the real issue of aliens who violate the terms of their admission.

First, the real problem is that neither the U.S. Department of State who issue visas at American diplomatic posts abroad, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which inspects arriving aliens and determines if they are admissible to the United States, are performing well on the issues of visa issuance and admission of aliens, respectively.

It is clear that too many aliens are issued a non-immigrant visa, subsequently admitted, and finally decide to not leave when the period of admission is reached.  If there are 11-20 million illegal aliens, then 4-9 million of those illegal aliens were screened by a consular officer at an American embassy or consulate and subsequently interview by a legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service Immigration Inspector or Customs Inspector, or later by a CBP Officer.  While many more millions are admitted but adhere to the conditions and period of admission, it is abundantly clear that there is a major problem in the process.

That, of course, is what leads to the problem of aliens who overstay, but the Kabuki theater that Rubio and Sessions are going through is not of much significance if the aliens are already here. Most never leave or only leave occasionally, not establishing a discoverable pattern that shows they are living here.  Others, however, frequently attempt to use a non-immigrant visa or the Visa Waiver Program to appear to be following the law by repeatedly entering and exiting the country as their date of admission come close.  This is a subgroup of illegal aliens to whom it is important to be in their minds legal in the United States by not overstaying a period of admission.  Of course they also always violate the conditions of their admission by working or using welfare illegally, but in their minds their date of admission is the keystone in their minds of being "legal."  Those aliens are quite easy to catch and CBP can, with some easy screening, catch those persons as the pattern of their travel is discoverable given improvements to the computer systems that track travel.  But in the end, most illegals who are admitted then overstay their period of admission don't travel much.  Any exit system, as it is currently called, is for the most part closing the barn door after the horse has left.

Secondly, however, both Rubio and Sessions are fighting over the two least efficient manners of doing what is really called not an exit system, but departure control.  Rubio wants to match names to airline and vessel passenger lists, while Sessions wants the aliens to be photographed and fingerprinted when departing.  Neither are committed to having the aliens go through what almost every other country does, that is inspect all departing persons, whether that is by air, sea, or land crossing.  Almost all nations inspect all departing persons and that, while also the most expensive method, is also the most effective method of departure control.  It is also the way to catch those aliens who abuse the non-immigrant visa system.  It would also, when implemented on the border with Mexico, catch the illegal alien population that travels quite freely over the border, either with border crossing cards, non-immigrant visas, or just jumps the border.

While expensive, this system where CBP would inspect departing persons just as it inspects arriving persons, can be implemented by a user fee, just as a user fee funds the inspection of persons arriving by air or sea.  In fact it can be easily implemented on the land borders as well.  Many of the bridges connecting the United States with both Mexico and Canada are built with private funds and managed by an authority or private corporation for profit.  Fees are collected by a toll system similar to toll bridges and motorways currently in the United States.  Such as system can be imposed on border crossers, $5.00 per pedestrian, $10.00 per non-commercial private motor vehicle, and $20.00 fee for small commercial carriers like taxis and mini-buses, with large busses charged $50.00.  Combined with a mirroring of the arrival charge for departures at sea and airports, CBP could soon be inspecting every departing person, and catching before departure many living illegally in the United States.  It would also serve as an intelligence gathering point for examination of suspicious persons leaving, such as Tamerlin Tsarnaev.  

But more importantly, departure control by physical inspection by an officer of the United States, is a symbol of a commitment to border security.  Merely checking names or having private contractors  unmanned check out kiosks take photos and fingerprints of departing aliens is insufficient and very easy to manipulate.  If just checking out at a kiosk as in the Sessions plan is implemented, all an alien has to do is check-in with no luggage and never board the aircraft.  An alien could create a record of departure with just the cost of a ticket to enter the secure departure are, check-in at the kiosk where a photo and fingerprints are taken, then all that alien has to do is walk out of the arrivals area.  Since the alien has no luggage, the airline will depart without the passenger and be happy to have sold a ticket.  The alien wins with a record of his departure.  

In any event Sessions' kiosk system can't work on the land border nor will Rubio's use of the name matching system.  That is a huge gaping hole which can only be solved with a system of CBP inspecting all persons leaving the United States.  In any event, CBP has increasingly started to check southbound traffic leaving for Mexico to intercept cash and guns heading to the cartels, so formalizing the system with a fee and building the necessary infrastructure would be an improvement for both the United States and Mexico.

I am very disappointed in Senator Sessions, though it might only be that he does not realize what is needed.  As said before, too many people talk about immigration but few know much about it.

In reality though, neither the Democrat Party, the Slave Power, nor the Drug Lords want departure control.  It would throw a wrench in the system.  So don't expect Rubio to stand up to any of those power centers.  Expect him to continue to facilitate all three.

Just How Effective Is Immigration Enforcement?

Even rumors of immigration enforcement are overwhelmingly effective.  The San Joaquin Valley was shut down last week, with illegal aliens in panic mode when rumors of immigration sweeps of the center of illegal immigration ran rampant.

BakersfieldNow.com May 10, 2013 by Gosia Wozniacka

Immigrant Raid Rumor Fuels Fear In California Farming Communities

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The rumor spread like wildfire via phone calls, text messages and social media postings and has persisted now for more than three weeks: Immigration agents are rounding up unauthorized workers in Central California farming communities.

In Madera, Dinuba, Reedley and parts of Fresno, streets emptied out, soccer games were cancelled and usually bustling businesses saw few customers. Area farmers say their employees are scared, with some not coming to work. Children are missing school.

Worse, local law enforcement and the Slave Labor Power participated along with the Mexican government of decrying and denying that any immigration enforcement was actually occuring.

The disruption has become so widespread and unrelenting that local law enforcement and business leaders took the unusual step of holding a news conference Friday to try to reassure the community that no raids have occurred.

"Every week we're getting dozens of calls from workers who are afraid because they say they heard that others were stopped on the side of the highway and hauled away," said Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League, the group that represents growers in the San Joaquin Valley.

Cunha organized the news conference, which included a representative from the Mexican consulate as well as other community leaders.

Even the ever useless ICE got in the game, assuring local law enforcement and illegal alien groups that there was no enforcement action.

Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency is aware of the rumors. While she would not discuss specific law enforcement efforts, Kice said ICE's priority is targeting immigrants who have committed crimes and "not sweeps or raids to target undocumented immigrants indiscriminately."

Local law enforcement officials said ICE assured them the rumors are false.

"I spoke with immigration officials at our local office and have been told directly that they are not conducting massive sweeps in this area, they are not conducting this activity," Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.

Give Virginia Kice a call and ask why ICE is working with illegal alien groups to openly defy Federal law.

630 Sansome Street

San Francisco, CA 94111

Main (510) 267-3800

Fax (510) 267-3870 

Given the impact of rumors of immigration enforcement, just imagine if the enforcement was real and the ICE spokesman open declared that immigration agents were in the field looking for and arresting illegal aliens throughout the San Joaquin Valley.  It would be Operation Wetback all over again.

Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty In Jeopardy?

In a major change of strategy in the Obama Regime's war on immigration law enforcement, it all but conceded that the Administrative Amnesty is illegal.

Homeland Security News Wire May 10, 2013

DHS Now Willing To Discuss Deportation Policy With Agents' Union

In an effort to head off a possible set back in  court, the Obama administration said earlier this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ lawsuit to overturn the president’s selective deportation policy should be thrown out court because the agents originally wanted to handle the issues through collective bargaining.

In an effort to head off a possible set back in  court, the Obama administration said earlier this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE) agents’ lawsuit to overturn the president’s selective deportation policy should be thrown out court because the agents originally wanted to handle the issues through collective bargaining.

The Washington Times reports that the latest administration’s position may be viewed as reversing an earlier administration position, which did not regard implementation of immigration policies as subject to collective bargaining.

The move by the Regime stinks of desperation.  They see defeat on the merits of the case; defiance of the laws of the United States, contempt for the President's Oath of Office, and usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress, so are falling back to a position they could have take at the beginning,  negotiate with the union.  

Of course, this position, that the enforcement of laws of the United States are subject to negotiation with  a representative of employees of the Executive Branch is also as ridiculous as the assertion of the Regime that the President has the power to ignore his Oath of Office and fail to see that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed.  One cannot negotiate away an Act of Congress any more than an Act of Congress can be ignored, much less a benefit provided to anyone without authority from Congress.

The question is whether the courts will pull the pin and impose the Constitution on Barak Hussein Obama?  Something that John Boehner is afraid to do.

Fortune Favors The Bold

And appropriately a coward dies a thousand deaths.  We are given these words of wisdom by Lucius Cornelius Sulla and William Shakespeare respectively.  And what is their import on the current state of the opposition to the Obama Regime?  Well, at least, in the area of the ongoing opposition to the mad rush for amnesty.  And a mad rush it is.  Both in its policy, madness to the core, and the how this legislation is being forced through the world's greatest debating society, the United States Senate.  An institution hardly though any successor to either the Roman Senate or any assembly of Athens either under the demos or the Four Hundred.

Besides the bestial poverty of debate and intelligence exhibited by Senators, there is also a vile cowardliness exhibited by the opposition to amnesty.  Ordinarily Senator Charles Grassley is an opponent of amnesty, but his performance during the Judiciary Committee mark-up of the bill leaves much to be desired.

But first the result:

NumbersUSA May 10, 2013 by Chris Chmielenski

Senate Judiciary Committee Balks at Enforcement

On the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's markup of the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill, one thing was crystal clear -- the Democrat-leaning Committee and its two GOP Gang of Eight Members are set on legalizing 11 million illegal aliens before any enforcement takes place. The Committee voted down 5 amendments that would have required measurable enforcement efforts occur before illegal aliens are legalized and given work permits.

On all 5 amendments, the votes fell along party lines with two exceptions - both Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who are members of the Gang of Eight, opposed the amendments. Their votes seem to indicate that the bill would lose Democratic support if enforcement was put before legalization despite a number of different polls that show that Americans support full border security before the rest of the immigration system is addressed.

And from Senator Grassely, hardly Cato the Elder:

Sen. Chuck Grassley - An amendment that would require DHS to reach the 90% apprehension rate, as proposed in the bill, for at least six months before amnesty is given. The bill currently requires DHS to submit a plan describing how they'll try to reach a 90% apprehension rate before amnesty is given.

Even this is not Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, it is if we must destroy Carthage, do it in six months, if not, then forget about destroying Carthage.  We can live with Carthage after all. 

And that appears to be the best we get out of Senator Grassley.  A short perusal of his other failed amendments to amnesty are also telling, Such as this one:

 (Grassley62-13464):  AMENDMENTS intended to be proposed by Mr. GRASSLEY
Viz:
1 On page 702, line 11, strike ‘‘(A)’’.
2 On page 702, line 14, strike ‘‘(i)’’ and insert ‘‘(A)’’.
3 On page 702, line 20, strike ‘‘(ii)(I)’’ and insert
4 ‘‘(B)(i)’’.
5 On page 702, line 24, strike ‘‘(II)’’ and insert ‘‘(ii)’’.
6 On page 703, line 3, strike ‘‘(III)’’ and insert ‘‘(iii)’’. 2
ARM13464 S.L.C.
1 On page 703, strike line 8 and all that follows
2 through page 705, line 12, and insert ‘‘employees.’’.
3 On page 710, strike lines 9 through 13.
4 On page 725, strike line 23 and all that follows
5 through page 725, line 2.
6 On page 726, line 3, strike ‘‘(4)’’ and insert ‘‘(3)’’.
7 On page 726, strike lines 9 through 13.
8 On page 726, line 14, strike ‘‘(d)’’ and insert ‘‘(c)’’.
9 On page 733, strike lines 5 through 8.
10 On page 735, strike lines 1 through 6.
11 On page 735, line 7, strike ‘‘(d)’’ and insert ‘‘(c)’’. 

How does this inspire Americans to contact their Senators and demand this amendment?  No one knows what it means.  It inspires nothing.  Perhaps Grassley is just going through the motions in his opposition to amnesty? 

Compare Grassley's amendment to one from Senator Patrick Leahy, which expands employment authorization for three of the most fraudulent visa programs for aliens who falsely claim domestic abuse or who are random victims of crime anywhere in the world.  Or this one that gives the Department of Homeland Security the authority to not build a single inch of fencing as part of the amnesty.  Leahy knows to be bold in his demands.

The significance of the nature of the amendments from those who ostensibly oppose amnesty are minor tinkering with details, while those amendments from the cultural Marxists out to elect a new people are creating well disguised loopholes for fraud and eliminating effective obstacles to future illegal immigration.  And the RINOs on the Gang of Eight held together to defeat even the minor and quite insignificant changes proposed by opponents of amnesty.

Clearly there is no boldness in the opposition to amnesty in the Senate.  Also missing was alternative legislation presented by amnesty opponents to the American people.  There is only dying a thousand deaths in the Judiciary Committee.  What we get from Grassley is incomprehensible and what we get from Leahy is aggressiveness and boldness in his pursuit of the goal of ending the United States as we know it.

Clearly we have a deficit in a will to victory.  This may be the undoing of the nation.

Kritarchs And Amnesty

The Obama Regime and a kritarch have united in an attempt to end run Congress and impose free attorney's for illegal aliens without legislative authority or appropriation.  It is another aspect of the Regime's ongoing Administrative Amnesty as well as its contempt for the Constitution.

NYT By Julia Preston April 24, 2013 

In A First, Judge Orders Legal Aid for Mentally Disabled Immigrants Facing Deportation 

A federal judge in California has ordered immigration courts in three states to provide legal representation for immigrants with mental disabilities who are in detention and facing deportation, if they cannot represent themselves. The decision is the first time a court has required the government to provide legal assistance for any group of people before the nation’s immigration courts. 

The ruling by Judge Dolly M. Gee, of federal court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, was handed down late Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit brought in 2010 by the American Civil Liberties Union, among other groups. One plaintiff in the case is José Antonio Franco González, 33, an immigrant who was detained for more than five years after his deportation case was closed, because severe mental retardation prevented him from arguing for himself in court or even understanding his situation.

Even worse, the Regime is instituting this policy without authority from Congress and without the lawful appropriation of funds.  The action by the open racist Eric "My People" Holder, is a violation of the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act.

On Monday, federal immigration officials issued a new policy that would, in practice, expand the California ruling nationwide, making government-paid legal representation available to people with mental disabilities in immigration courts in every state. The release of that policy indicates that the Justice Department, which runs the immigration courts, broadly accepts the approach ordered by Judge Gee.

It is clear there is collusion between the Treason Bar, Holder, Janet Reno Napolitano and the ACLU during this lawsuit.  Such a policy of providing attorney's for aliens in removal proceedings at government expense is specifically prohibited by an Act of Congress, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, as amended, Section 240(a)(4)(A):

(4) Aliens rights in proceeding.-In proceedings under this section, under regulations of the Attorney General-

(A) the alien shall have the privilege of being represented, at no expense to the Government, by counsel of the alien's choosing who is authorized to practice in such proceedings,

The action by Kritarch Gee, herself of Chinese descent from immigrant parents, and clearly not a disinterested legal professional, clearly shows an agenda worthy of the Warren Court and its absurd decision mandating welfare attorneys for criminals.  There was and there remains nothing in the Constitution or its Amendments, specifically the Sixth Amendment.  Nor is there anything in the Constitution that mandates attorneys for aliens in administrative proceedings. 

However, like the leftists on their Long March through the Institutions, the radical left is starting small, attorneys for the mentally incompetent, but another Kritarch, or even Kritarch Gee, will appoint all of her fellow Chinese and other aliens, free attorneys regardless of competence, sooner or later, just as the left started with mandating free counsel in capital cases then slowly expanded the requirement step-by-step to all criminal cases.

All, however, with the connivance of the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Treason Bar and the ACLU, to violate the Constitution itself.  When will the RINOs stand up and impeach the Chinese Kritarch Gee and her co-conspirators?

ICE SVU Catch And Release Of Terrorists Confirmed

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massechuesetts has charged two illegal alien students from Kazakhstan in the Boston Bombing case.  Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, previously arrested and released by ICE Special Victims Unit, were quickly re-arrested by the FBI and subsequently charged with making false statements to the FBI and obstruction of justice.

Boston CBS May 1, 2013

3 Additional Suspects Arrested In Boston Marathon Bombings Case

BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Boston police say three additional suspects have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.

Their names have not been released.  Police said more details will be revealed later today and noted that there is no threat to the public.  The three are expected in federal court in South Boston Wednesday afternoon.

According to CBS News, the three people arrested are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Two will be charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. They are not U.S. citizens.

According to WBZ-TV’s Karen Anderson, their names are Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev.  Both are originally from Kazakhstan and attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Note that ICE SVU has a special hands-off policy to illegal alien students.  ICE SVU is discouraged from arresting students of any kind, including university students, who are illegal aliens, even if they are Muslim terrorists.  Any accidentally arrested are immediately released, like Jessica Cotolt.

ICE SVU's failure is another example of the deliberate support for illegal immigration and Muslim terrorism by the Obama Regime.

Tsarnaev Family And Asylum Fraud

As more details come out, the fraudulent nature of the asylum application by Anzor Tsarnaeva, pere to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaeva, becomes readily more apparent as information reaches the public sphere.  Though the fraud was readily apparent during the application process as well, but U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Asylum Office chose to ignore the obvious fraud.

ABC News April 21, 2013 by Kirit Ragia

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects' Twisted Family History

The history of the two Boston bombing suspects' family is a twisted one, woven with the various conflicts that have afflicted their ethnic homeland...

The first hint at fraud follows immediately from the account:

The aunt said the parents would come back to Dagestan to visit from time to time, but the sons stayed in the United States...

Sitting at her kitchen table here, the suspects' aunt, Patemat Sulemanova, recounted from memory a complex family history involving a deportation by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, two Chechen wars, and a severe beating in the United States that ultimately brought the suspects' father back to this restive region in southern Russia.

Strange behavior for someone fleeing political persecution to return repeatedly to where he was the victim of persecution and then returns permanently.  So fearful of his life, but not fearful enough to return.

But back to the transnational history of the Tsarnaev family:

The father's side of the family is ethnic Chechen, but they were among the many Chechen families who were expelled from the region by Stalin in February 1944 when he considered Chechens to be disloyal during World War II. They resettled in Kyrgyzstan, which then was part of the Soviet Union. It was there that the suspects' father, Anzor Tsarnaev, was born and raised.

He served his mandatory military term in the early 1980s in Novosibirsk, where he met his wife, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva. Her family was from Dagestan but she was in Novosibirsk to visit a relative.

The two married and eventually returned to live in Kyrgyzstan. They had four children, two girls and two boys, the two suspects. The elder son Tamerlan was born in the region of Kalmykia and the younger son Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan.

What we learn from this is that Tsarnaev pere was both a Kirghiz citizen and Russian citizen by birth.  Essentially he could live in two different nations as he willed.  And Dzhokhar was a Kirghiz by birth as well, after the breakup of the Soviet Union.  It is apparent that he also held passports from both Russia and Kyrgyzstan, an independent country, though Russian extends Russian citizenship to those born before the fall and those who are descendants of such.   In any event, any persecution problems in Russia could have been alleviated by moving to Kyrgyzstan.

But things get more complicated, as the Tsarnaev family settle in a constituent republic of the Russian Federation, Chechnya, that clearly made them Russian citizens as well.  Note that Tamerlan was born in a constituent republic of Russia, Kalmykia, and was consequently Russian by birth.

The young couple decided to leave Kyrgyzstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and attempted to settle in Chechnya, but bloody wars there in the 1990s forced them to quickly return to Kyrgyzstan.

By 2001, they moved to Dagestan, where the mother still had family, when the boys were 14 and 7 years old. They only lived there for about six months before obtaining refugee status and resettling in the United States.

So, six months in another constituent republic of Russia, Dagestan.  But they first return the Kyrgyzstan.  Clearly they had a legal right to be there, probably based on dual citizenship or rights to reside based on the former status of Kyrgyzstan as part of the Soviet Union.  So, the question is, what was the basis of Tsarnaev pere's asylum claim?  Other reports quoted him as saying that the Russians were after him.  Curious, as by that time the worst in Chechnya were over, but in any event he was a secular Muslim living in Kyrgyzstan, then Dagestan.  Not being a bearded one that the Russians were fighting in another constituent republic, why would the Russians single out an obscure non-threat?  Especially if the persecution he suffered was so minuscule that he returned repeatedly after moving to America.

We get a clue here:

NYT April 20, 2013 by Eric Schmitt, Michael S. Schmidt And Ellen Barry 

Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip

Anzor Tsarnaev and his younger son first came to the United States legally in April 2002 on 90-day tourist visas, federal law enforcement officials said. Once in this country, the father applied for political asylum, claiming he feared deadly persecution based on his ties to Chechnya. Dzhokhar, who was 8, applied for asylum under his father’s petition, the officials said.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the United States later, and applied for American citizenship on Sept. 5 last year, federal law enforcement officials said.

So, he was so persecuted he entered the United States as a tourist, then, after admission, then went down to the USCIS Asylum Office to make a claim there.  Before leaving though, he would have had to go to the Russian government's passport office to get a passport, then go through the rather rigorous tourist visa application process at an American embassy or consulate in Russia.  The closest is Moscow, the very heart of the state apparatus that Tsarnaev feared so much.  This puts a lie to his persecution claim.  Even more telling is that he would have had to prove to the American embassy that he had what is so interestingly described as "an unrelinquished residence abroad."  In non-bureaucratese that means do you have the ties necessary to where you live, such as employment and family, ensuring that you will return from a temporary trip to the United States.  So, Tsarnaev pere would have had to show he was living quite well where he was, in Dagestan.  And he came with only one of four children and no wife.  Clearly leaving them there they were in no danger, which tells one that he was really in no danger as well.

An Asylum Officer should have picked up on these issues and denied the application for asylum application.  But this is quite telling on the credulity of the Asylum Officers and our asylum policy.  USCIS unhappily for many dead Americans, accepts any accretion of lies presented by aliens and follows a policy of "Get to Yes" rather than a "Get to the Truth."  A policy that has proven to be deadly to Americans.  And certainly not worth the cost in blood and gold.