[Original posting in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com]

The recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report – IMMIGRATION BENEFITS: Additional Controls and Sanctions Strategy Could Enhance DHS’s Ability to Control Benefit Fraud (GAO-06-259) [PDF] certainly raises more questions about the ability of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) division to even detect, let alone do anything about, the massive tidal wave of immigration benefit fraud that inundates its service centers, district offices and asylum offices nationwide.

Following the Mohammedan Jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001, the GAO filed reports in 2002 and 2004 attempting to find out exactly is going on in the way of application fraud detection at the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (and now the CIS).

And now, in the third of its latest of reports issued March 2006, the GAO again finds that there are STILL no immigration benefit fraud detection or prosecution methods in place at the agency.

So what else is new?

Actually this time around, the GAO gives its own suggestion as to how the folks at DHS could at least create the appearance of stemming the tide of immigration fraud.

GAO says how right on the front page of the report: "Additional controls and a sanctions strategy could enhance DHS' ability to control benefit fraud."

But where the GAO’s kinder and gentler Beltway warriors suggest some form of wrist-slapping "administrative sanctions" against the thousands of legal and illegal aliens who file all manner of phony applications seeking immigration benefits, I have another alternative.

Forget all the bureaucratic saber-rattling over "sanctions." How about DEPORTATION!

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