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Shiite militiaman reached U.S. posing as Iraqi refugee
Oct 11, 2021 1 min, 40 secs

An Iraqi man admitted to immigration fraud last week, saying he cheated America’s refugee system by lying about his past as a member of an Iranian-funded Shiite militia in order to win asylum in the U.S.

Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi entered the U.S.

in 2016, when then-President Obama was pushing to resettle tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East amid accusations that the system wasn’t able to properly vet them.

opens its arms to tens of thousands of Afghans, Al Fawadi’s case raises questions anew about the ability of federal authorities to vet applications and weed out dangerous or otherwise undeserving migrants.

Al Fawadi won refugee status for himself and his family by claiming he’d been persecuted by Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq for refusing to help them kidnap Sunni Muslims.

Al Fawadi entered a guilty plea in the federal fraud case last week.

Obama in 2015 and 2016 vowed to bring in tens of thousands of Syrians and Iraqis as refugees while those countries were riven by civil war and battles against the Islamic State.

President Biden has moved to reopen the spigots, and while he’s struggled to get the refugee program fully up and running, the tens of thousands of Afghans are serving as an early test for his administration.

Al Fawadi, the Iraqi refugee, faces his own charges of raping and choking his wife, according to an indictment from Onondaga County, New York.

According to court documents he applied for refugee status for himself and his family while in Turkey in 2015.

In the just-ended fiscal year 2021, only about 500 Iraqi refugees were admitted, with most coming after Mr.

Once approved as a refugee, he made his way to New York, and in 2017, after waiting the required year, he applied for a green card.

The State Department earlier this year halted a program for Iraqi migrants after discovering a massive plot to steal secret case files refugee applications, then use that information to help others game the system

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