Amid all the confusion at our border, at least one question with national security and public safety implications has gone almost entirely unexamined: We're told that those who enter our country illegally are "vetted" before they're released into our communities, but what does this mean?
Not much. Since President Joe Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security has released an estimated 2 million migrants into the U.S. after minimal "processing." This means taking their photos and fingerprints, entering (unverifiable) names and birth dates, running this data through U.S. law enforcement and immigration databases, and creating an immigration file if a prior one isn't found.
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