Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Passed Out Citizenship for Votes!
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 CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Official: Emanuel fast-tracked immigrants to get votes
Ex-Clinton aide now promises to loosen rules as Obama chief of staff
A former INS official who attended meetings with Rahm Emanuel when
Emanuel was a White House aide says the hard-charging Democrat relaxed
rules to naturalize even criminal immigrants
and secure their votes for President Clinton ahead of the 1996 presidential election.
President-elect Barack Obama, who has chosen Emanuel to run White
House operations as his chief of staff, has promised to sign
legislation that loosens immigration and puts even illegal aliens on a
fast track to citizenship.
Emanuel coordinated with Hispanic community organizers in Chicago
to rubberstamp immigrants for citizenship, the INS official said in an
exclusive interview with WND.
Topics: Amnesty, Path to Citizenship, Obama, President, Rahm Emanuel, citizenship for votes, open borders, illegal immigration, bribes, corruption, crimes, American victims
December 15, 2008
9:41 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily
It turns out the long-time Chicago political operative was the
behind-the-scenes catalyst for Citizenship USA, a project run out of
then-Vice President Al Gore's office.
"Rahm was doing it under the guise of Al Gore's Reinventing
Government program," said the official, who helped direct INS security
policy. "He was definitely the point man and was past his neck in the
scandal at INS."
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Emanuel, now caught up in the corruption scandal involving Democrat
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, refused to cooperate with an
investigation into the citizenship project by the Justice Department
Inspector General.
"He got every rule changed in the hiring of adjudicators so they
could naturalize more Mexican nationals to vote for Bill Clinton, not
to mention getting the rules changed to naturalize anyone," regardless
of their criminal background, said the official, who's still employed
by the federal government and requested anonymity to avoid reprisals.
"They had immigration ceremonies at stadiums with DNC (Democratic
National Committee) staff registering them as voters right there," he
added.
At one Chicago ceremony held inside Soldier Field, some 11,000 new citizens were sworn in.
Another former INS official, William Carroll, said Emanuel "took
midnight trips to INS headquarters to meet with (Commissioner) Doris
Meissner about Citizenship USA."
He said that in March 1996 he and other INS district directors were
given "marching orders" by headquarters to push through as many new
citizens as possible ahead of the election, even if no criminal and
national security background checks were completed. INS deportation
officer Tom Conklin said that he and other agents were pressured to
rubberstamp immigrants "with two or three arrests for crimes like
burglary."
According to a November 1993 interview with Mother Jones magazine,
Emanuel began pushing Clinton to be proactive on the issue of
immigration right after he took office, and years ahead of the 1996
re-election campaign.
"I just wanted to be ahead of this issue and have our staff on it,
defining it constantly," Emanuel said, eyeing Texas and California, two
key states in 1996 where immigration was a hot issue.
Clinton took his close aide's advice. In September 1994, the
president met with the head of the Hispanic group UNO, or United
Neighborhood Organization, during a fundraiser in Chicago. The
president of Chicago-based UNO, Daniel "Danny" Solis, explained that
the growing number of immigrants represented a "great opportunity" to
get a million new voters, but "we have to get all these citizens
naturalized."
Clinton told Solis to stay in contact with Emanuel. The two then
coordinated a scheme to fast-track both legal and illegal immigrants
for citizenship before the 1996 election, the INS security official
alleges.
"The goal was to speed up the process and turn as many legal residents and illegals into Clinton voters as possible," he said.
The officially stated purpose of Clinton's Citizenship USA program was to eliminate an INS backlog of applicants.
The senior INS official's allegations appear to be corroborated by
some of the findings reached by the Justice inspector general in his
2000 report entitled, "An Investigation of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service's Citizenship USA Initiative."
Emanuel, who could not be reached for comment for this article, refused to cooperate with the IG's investigation.
At the time of the scandal, he was White House director of special
projects. After the election, he was promoted to Clinton's senior
advisor for policy and strategy.
The report said Emanuel "often attended meetings" with INS' Meissner.
"According to witnesses at INS and the Department of Justice,
Emanuel was increasingly responsible at the White House for issues
involving the Department of Justice," the report said, "and his
interests in immigration issues were focused primarily on enforcement."
The IG's report also confirmed Clinton sat near UNO's Solis at the Chicago fundraising dinner in September 1994.
Solis, now a Chicago alderman and staunch ally of Mayor Richard
Daley, sent a letter dated Sept. 25 to the White House noting that
naturalizing Hispanic immigrants at a record pace could give the
"Democrats a strategic advantage at next year's Convention" as
Chicago's INS applicants "represent thousands of potential voters."
Emanuel, in turn, faxed Solis' letter to Meissner's office and
asked the INS to review the document, the IG's report noted.
Citizenship USA was launched in August 1995.
Then in January 1996, Emanuel met with Solis and other Hispanic activists in the White House.
According to the report, Solis told investigators that "Emanuel
seemed very interested when the representatives noted that the backlog
of naturalization applicants represented potential votes for the
Clinton-Gore campaign."
"Whether Emanuel's interest was real and reflected political acumen
or merely politeness is a question that his refusal to be interviewed
has made more difficult to answer," complained Justice's Inspector
General Glenn A. Fine.
Meissner was not comfortable with the pressure Emanuel was exerting on her agency, the report said.
"Certainly the possibility that White House involvement in CUSA
(Citizenship USA) could be perceived as improper occurred to many
people, incuding Commissioner Meissner, who recalled having voiced her
concerns to Emanuel and to both Attorney General Reno and Deputy
Attorney General Gorelick," the report added.
In 2001, Fine testified his investigation "found that the INS had
compromised the integrity of naturalization adjudications as a result
of its efforts to process applicants more quickly and meet a
self-imposed goal of completing more than a million cases by the end of
fiscal year 1996."
Among other things, he said investigators determined that the
Clinton administration had followed "inadequate procedures for checking
criminal histories and fingerprints."
Fine made a point toward the end of his report to stress that
Emanuel, who had "reviewed the 1995 Solis letter and faxed it to the
INS," refused his request for an interview.
Seven years later, Emanuel still has not answered questions about his role in the immigration scandal.
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