Audit: Biden DHS Loophole Let Migrants Claim Asylum Despite Fake Papers
18th October 2025
Homeland Security’s border agency says it has fixed a loophole from the Biden era that let immigrants enter the United States illegally and claim asylum despite using fraudulent identification documents, according to a newly released audit.
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report that agents at the border caught migrants using fake papers but failed to record the attempted fraud in the migrants’ official immigration files, known as A-files, reports The Washington Times.
As a result, authorities reviewing asylum applications had no idea the individuals had tried to deceive border officers, which could have disqualified them.