President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is ordering a review of all refugees resettled across the U.S. by former President Joe Biden’s administration.
An internal USCIS memo, obtained by Reuters, details plans by Director Joseph Edlow to give a second look to hundreds of thousands of refugee cases adjudicated under the Biden administration — specifically those who arrived from Afghanistan with minimal vetting.
The memo similarly halts the processing of cases where refugees, admitted under Biden, are seeking permanent residence in the U.S.
“Given these concerns, USCIS has determined that a comprehensive review and a re-interview of all refugees admitted from January 20, 2021, to February 20, 2025, is warranted,” the memo states, according to Reuters. “When appropriate, USCIS will also review and re-interview refugees admitted outside this timeframe.”
USCIS may terminate refugee status for those refugees who are found to have not met the criteria required by federal immigration law.
As Breitbart News has reported for years, there has been widespread fraud and abuse within the massive Afghan resettlement carried out by Biden in 2021, law enforcement agencies and inspectors general offices have repeatedly found.
In one such recent case, a 27-year-old Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma last year after allegedly planning an Election Day terrorist attack on Americans. The man had been brought to the United States through Biden’s massive resettlement operation.
In April 2023, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official revealed to Congress that some unvetted Afghans were resettled in the United States who were found to have been involved in placing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan to kill American troops.
In 2021, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) requested information about the number of Afghans who sought entry to the U.S. and were listed on the federal government’s “No Fly List” because of their ties to Islamic terrorism. Biden’s top agency officials refused to disclose the total.
In September 2022, the DHS Inspector General (IG) issued a bombshell report detailing how the Biden administration imported Afghans who were “not fully vetted” and could “pose a risk to national security.”
Similarly, in February 2022, a DOD IG report revealed that Biden’s agencies failed to properly vet Afghans who arrived in the United States and that about 50 Afghans were flagged for “significant security concerns” after their resettlement.
Most of the unvetted Afghans flagged for possible terrorism ties, the DOD IG report stated, have since disappeared into American communities. The report noted that as of September 17, 2021, only three of 31 Afghans flagged with specific “derogatory information” could be located.
In August 2022, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) detailed allegations from a whistleblower who claimed the Biden administration knowingly resettled almost 400 Afghans in the United States who were listed as “potential threats” in federal databases and urged staff to cut corners in the vetting process.
In May 2022, a Project Veritas report alleged the Biden administration resettled Afghans listed on the federal government’s “Terrorism Watch List” in American communities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here.
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