Does Our 'Get to Yes' Visa System Let in Kleptocrats?
By Dan Cadman, December 19, 2016
On December 9, the organization Pro Publica, which describes its mission as "journalism in the public interest", published an article entitled "Suspected of Corruption at Home, Powerful Foreigners Find Refuge in the U.S." in collaboration with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.
It is a lengthy article, and lays out a prima facie case of misfeasance by the U.S. government – presumably the Department of State (DOS) for issuing visas, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for not initiating removal actions – in permitting corrupt kleptocrats who have stolen from the public coffers of their various countries, to use the United States as a safe haven.
It is an article worth reading and there is undoubtedly at least some truth to the story, just as there is truth to asserting that the United States has more often than anyone cares to recount become home to terrorists and to war criminals or human rights abusers (see, for example, here and here).
http://cis.org/cadman/pro-publica-kleptocrats
