Four powerful Republican senators are demanding answers to questions they posited to Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in early August regarding the apparent
watering down of immigration regulations which prohibit those seeking
residency or citizenship from being primarily reliant on welfare, or a
public charge.
The Department of Homeland Security missed the Aug. 20 deadline
and has yet to respond.
Also addressed in the initial letter was
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The State Department did respond,
claiming that the majority of the inquiry fell under the purview of DHS.
In a letter sent to Napolitano Tuesday, and obtained by The Daily Caller, the ranking members of the Senate Finance,
Agriculture, Budget, and Judiciary Committees —- Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch,
Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff
Sessions and Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley respectively — requested
answers to their initial questions, specifically pertaining to why
participation in a majority of welfare programs fails to disqualify
immigrants who apply for admission or status adjustments.
“Your failure to respond to our oversight request is deeply
troubling, and suggests that your Department is attempting to conceal
information from the American people,” the senators wrote.
The four demanded that the Department offer all the data
they requested back on Aug. 6 — an explanation about how the watered
down approach fits congressional intent, the number of aliens denied
admittance due to being a dependency risk, the number that became a
public charge once admitted, the number admitted even though they were a
dependency risk because the applicant offered an affidavit of support,
and if the answers are unavailable, why the agencies do not track the
data.
In their most recent letter, the senators also ask for the number of applications received each year.
A GOP senate staffer noted to TheDC that the information should be readily available and easy to provide.
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