My concern was we had Iranian students who studied at Iran’s big physics school and were essentially nuclear physicists working on their bomb project, we had cases where they would register for a mechanical engineering class in the U.S., but really all they were trying to do is get access to an aeronautical engineering program, so they could work on the delivery system for Iran’s nuclear program.

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If there is to be a further decline in cooperation from the Mexican government, then what is the point in giving them funds, if they’re not going to cooperate with the U.S. government in the drug war, why would you continue to give U.S. dollars to that government? It’s pretty simple.

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These two could have gang ties in El Salvador and Guatemala or have an otherwise violent criminal history, just like the thousands of other unaccompanied minors that have been released in the U.S. for the past several years, we know nothing about them.

Claude Arnold

Refugees are admitted to the U.S. based on the story they tell of persecution, and they are not required to produce identity documentation or other types of documentation, if the person seeking entry is a persecutor, he would have specificity in his story that matches information obtained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Services personnel adjudicating the events.

Claude Arnold

In the case of Iraq, when we had troops on the ground, we were able to get intelligence on bad actors, now we rely on the Iraqi government to not only obtain the intelligence, but also to relay it to us.

Claude Arnold

That creates great potential for an ISIS fighter to assume a false identity and engineer a refugee claim.

Claude Arnold

Letting the terrorists in to the country through the refugee program can result in citizens and residents being harmed. We cannot afford to make that mistake.

Claude Arnold

The U.S. is the center of international trade. As soon as businesses are not allowed to come to the U.S. to do business internationally, that’s all it would take, those countries would start accepting back their deportees immediately because they would get such pressure from their citizenry who would be hurt financially.

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Our intelligence from Iraq is much greater than in Syria because we had a military presence there for so long, we had biometrics, fingerprints, and documentary evidence to identify bad actors. But cases like these show this vetting process is not foolproof.

Claude Arnold

This is a tough situation, you want to have the law protect domestic violence victims, yet the law also creates another vulnerability in our immigration system that is exploited by fraudsters.

Claude Arnold

Defenders of sanctuary policies say they protect immigrants from deportation and reduce illegal immigrants ’ fear of cops. But critics, including Homeland Security Department officials say releasing illegal immigrant criminals inside the U.S. is dangerous. Claude Arnold, a retired U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, said sanctuary advocates claim immigration enforcement is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government, however enacting laws like the California Trust Act, which dictates how the federal government can enforce the law, contradicts those claims and can be devastating consequences. The murder of 32-year-old Kathlene Steinle’s in June 2015 by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is a prime example, Claude Arnold said. Steinle was shot dead while strolling on San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father. The alleged shooter, a felon and five-time deportee, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, claiming the shooting was an accident. Those responsible for releasing him not long before the shooting despite a federal request to detain him for deportation should also have consequences, Claude Arnold said. When sanctuary jurisdictions like San Francisco County release criminals that officials know are in the U.S. illegally, and those criminals commit heinous crimes, those responsible should be federally prosecuted.

Claude Arnold

We have enough problems with our own criminals. We should not have to hold on to criminals from other countries indefinitely.

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She also gave inconsistent answers about when she discovered that the HSI agents were investigating the shootings from the day prior …. Either version is contradicted by the building security officer …. it is pretty standard across the federal government that if someone engages in criminal misconduct related to their professional duties, it is also a removable offense.

Claude Arnold

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When agents show up to CIS for a criminal investigation, they should never be impeded. That is obstruction of justice.

Claude Arnold

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U.S. visas are being used to get trafficking victims into the country, traffickers have brought victims over as their fiance, or on visitor visas before the trafficker takes their passport and forces them to work in [brothels].

Claude Arnold

A very common threat, the traffickers tell them if they run away, they will hurt their family, or it can be more subtle, I will tell your family that you’ve been doing this, they control them through guilt and fear.

Claude Arnold

The kind of pay they are supposed to be getting and the kind of hours they are supposed to be working all changes when they arrive in the U.S..

Claude Arnold

Why do we want people who are our enemies, whether it is potentially ISIS or Iran, here learning technical skills they are going to use against us? it is insane.

Claude Arnold

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This is an example where the system worked.

Claude Arnold

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Our legal immigration system has many vulnerabilities and the student visa program is no different, it is only a matter of time before there is either some horrible criminal act, or some act of terrorism, and there is absolutely no information available that would have caused [authorities] to go out and pick that person up.

Claude Arnold

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You have to conduct a threat assessment and go after those who are a threat to national security, but within that universe of people who are visa overstays, there could be people who are radicalized, and we just don’t know it because there is no intelligence on them.

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