In a Feb. 4 WorldNetDaily article, Radio America’s Greg Corombos touts his interview subject, Jessica Vaughan of the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies, as an “immigration policy expert,” though all she’s doing is reflexively defending President Trump’s immigration from certain countries by insisting it’s not really a ban.
Corombos also writes: “Vaughan, a former visa officer, said the Obama administration failed to do even basic screening much of the time, including waiving required interviews with those seeking to go to the U.S. But she said the problems didn’t end there.” Corombos is suggesting that Vaughan’s work as a “former visa officer” has direct relevance to Obama’s alleged policies; it’s further suggested in the headline of his article, “Ex-visa officer: Obama failed to do basic screening of migrants.”
In fact, Vaughan’s CIS bio says she “has been with the Center since 1992,” meaning any direct experience she had in working with visas as a former State Department employee was 25 years ago.
In other words, she never worked in the Obama administration and can’t provide any direct experience as to what its visa policies were.
Indeed, Natasha Hall, an former immigration officer with the Department of Homeland Security, explains that “The process for any citizen of a Middle Eastern or majority-Muslim country to get into the United States is tortuous and has become more so over the past 15 years, with additional screenings, interviews and other background checks.”
That’s a misleading bit of reporting on the part of Corombos. But misleading reporting is what WND is all about.