All weekly travel reports for members of Congress.All passenger manifests (DD-2131) for transporting members of Congress.All records concerning transportation costs for transporting members of Congress.All records regarding mission taskings of flights escorting members of Congress.We filed a December 2015 FOIA lawsuit after the Air Force failed to respond to an August 2015 request ( Judicial Watch v. Just this week, we released documents we obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Air Force that detail $134,587.81 plus $50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer” for a total of $184.587.81 for then-House Minority Leader Pelosi’s Congressional delegation (CODEL) to Italy and Ukraine in 2015. I discuss our prior work here in an op-ed for Fox News. We’ve been watching her taxpayer-supported travel for years. Nancy Pelosi’s plan to fly into a war zone to thank the troops, which President Trump put on hold, was déjà vu all over again. Grants Thousands of Spousal Visas for Underaged Children Senate Ethics Committee Gives Senator Cory Booker a Pass Your Tax Dollars: FOIA Goes to the Supreme Court The State Department also writes that “forced marriage is a human rights abuse and, in the case of minors, a form of child abuse.” It also creates gender inequality, contributes to economic hardship and leads to “under-investment in girls’ educational and healthcare needs.” Why would the same agency approve thousands of visas for children-mostly girls-to enter forced marriages in the U.S.Documents Detail Nancy Pelosi’s Love of Flying at Our Expense In its lengthy strategy handbook, the agency revealed that there are nearly 700 million women alive today who were married as children and 15 million more are married each year. campaign to reduce child marriage abroad, Congress passed a measure in 2013 requiring the secretary of state to establish and implement a multiyear strategy to “prevent child marriages” and “to promote the empowerment of girls at risk of child marriage in developing countries.” A few years later the State Department launched a Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls to, among other things, “reduce the risk of child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM).” Two Latin American countries-Brazil (3 million) and Mexico (1.4 million)-also appear in the top ten.Īs part of the U.S. India tops the list for child marriage (15.5 million), according to a global nonprofit committed to ending it and enabling girls to fulfill their potential. government launched an aggressive global campaign years ago to slash an epidemic of child marriages, rampant in third-world countries.
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women and girls forced into a child marriage involving the U.S. “She is just one of the thousands of U.S. USCIS approved her spousal immigration benefit when she was just 13 years old and throughout the forced marriage, she suffered physical and sexual abuse. Senate investigators spoke with a “child marriage victim” who was forced to marry her older cousin during a family vacation to Pakistan. “The State Department returns or rejects few spousal or fiancé immigrant visa petitions after they are approved by USCIS,” the report states. Once the agency approves the application, the State Department usually issues the visa. The request is initially made to USCIS, which does not require parental or judicial consent for minors. Two government agencies-USCIS and the State Department-must approve spouse or fiancé visas. adult may petition for a visa for a minor spouse or fiancé living abroad.” child may petition for a visa for a spouse or fiancé living in another country, and a U.S. “Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), a U.S. law have allowed thousands of minors to be subjected to child marriages,” the senate report states. Department of State policy aim to prevent and reduce the risks of child marriages occurring around the world, yet major loopholes in U.S. Nearly 5,000 minors in the United States on spousal or fiancé visas received green cards to become lawful permanent residents, federal figures show.
USCIS also rubber-stamped 149 applications involving a minor with an adult spouse or fiancé over the age of 40.
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citizen’s petition for a 48-year-old spouse from Jamaica. In another, the agency granted a 14-year-old U.S. In a disturbing example, the agency approved a 71-year-old American citizen’s visa request for a 17-year-old spouse from Guatemala.