United states refugee resettlement policy is almost failing
due to apathy of some top officials and malpractices of some officials entrusted
with the task. The biggest reason is the United States Secretary of Homeland
Security Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, who himself was a Cuban refugee. Mayorkas
migrated to the United States in 1960 due to the Cuban Revolution. The United
States granted him a new identity, including citizenship. But he forgot his past
as he is not interested in the welfare of refugees, his nature is such that he
does not want any other refugee to come and resettle in America. The purpose for
which he was assigned this post by the US President has failed. The US President
Joe Biden thought that he would improve the immigration policy in the United
States by electing Alejandro Mayorkas, but his decision was wrong and tantamount
to insulting the refugees, which has intensified the refugee crisis around the
world. Thousands of cases sent by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for
resettlement in the United States are pending. Six U.S. government agencies,
including the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of Defense, the United States Intelligence
Community, the Department of State, and the Department of Health and Human
Services, have been assigned to screening the refugee vetting process. According
to the rules and regulations, the process should take about 36 months. But now
the process takes more than six years with almost no progress. These six US
agencies have completely failed to complete reports on refugee cases. Because
there are no experts who can give their reports or opinion on refugee cases. The
same US departments have some corrupt individuals who call refugees from
anonymous numbers and promise to resettle them in the United States and demand a
bribe of five thousand dollars per refugee in return. When calling, they tell
the applicant their case number, family data and all the information that the
refugee has shared with DHS or USCIS officials during the interviews. With such
calls from US agencies, many naive and forced refugees are willing to give up
their savings. In the United States, the Inspector General of the Department of
Homeland Security receives a number of complaints in this regard, but instead of
taking action against them, he remains silent so as not to discredit his
department. The Department of Homeland Security makes big claims about
eliminating immigration fraud in the United States, but it cannot eradicate the
black sheep in its own organization who rob refugees showing them the dream of
resettlement in the United States. I writing this column after thorough research
in this regard because there are some refugees whose cases have been approved in
two to three years and they have been resettled in the United States in
violation of merit. The UNHCR is also not informed by the authorities of the
reasons for the pending of cases referred by the UNHCR. The applicant refugees
are kept waiting on the pretext that their cases are still under process. In the
name of resettlement in the United States, thousands of UNHCR's recognized
refugees lost their savings to become beggars, but they could not be resettled.
US President Joe Biden has not yet reviewed the USCIS, the Department of
Homeland Security and the United States Refugee Admission Program. In which the
graph of corruption has increased so much that if the US government wants to
clean it, it will take a long time but under the current circumstances,
accountability seems difficult.