We have known for a long time how easy it
is to get away with asylum fraud, and yet nothing has been done to improve
detection or the prosecution numbers. A 2008 GAO survey of asylum officers
showed that 75 percent
believed “they needed additional training to help them detect fraud, conduct
security checks and assess the credibility of asylum seekers.” In 2014, four
Republican congressmen asked the GAO to investigate the asylum process after a
leaked DHS report showed that up to 70 percent of cases contained proven or possible fraud.
