Border czar Tom Homan vows the Trump administration will thoroughly vet Afghan refugees after a government report noted the group was not properly vetted.
Homan told The Center Square that the administration would be doing things the “right way” by revisiting the vetting process.
“We’re going to re-vet them because we don’t think the last administration properly vetted them … this administration will do things the right way, we’ll make sure everyone is vetted properly,” said Homan.
Homan pointed to a 2022 Department of Defense Inspector General report that admitted thousands of Afghan evacuees who entered the U.S. following the American military evacuation in August 2021 were not properly vetted.
The Department of Defense “found that Afghan evacuees were not vetted by the National Counter-Terrorism Center using all DoD data prior to arriving in CONUS,” said the report.
“This occurred because Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) enrollments were compared against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) data, which did not initially include all biometric data located in the DoD Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) database and because the DoD’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) has agreements with foreign partners that prohibits the sharing of some ABIS data with U.S. agencies outside of the DoD.
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