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Department of Homeland Security
The DHS Unified Coordination Group for Operation Allies Welcome Coordinated Afghan Resettlement but Faced Challenges in Funding and Authority
On August 29, 2021, the President designated the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the lead Federal agency for Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a Federal effort to resettle in the United States vulnerable Afghans who were evacuated from Afghanistan after thefall of the Afghan government in the summer of 2021.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not manage Puerto Rico Disaster Case Management Program (PR-DCMP) funds inaccordance with Federal regulations and FEMA program requirements. According to Federal regulations, non-Federal entities must supportaccumulation of costs and provide adequate documentation to support costs charged to a Federal award.
Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) processed and obligated funds timely to other Federal agencies (OFA), it did not provide sufficient oversight to ensure OFAs used pandemic funding as required. Specifically, FEMA did not develop detailed cost estimates when initially establishing MAs, validate unliquidated and open obligations throughout the MA lifecycle, and verify cost eligibility against Public Assistance guidance before closing the MA.
Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) complied with its enumeration policies and procedures and had adequate controls over managing evidentiary documents submitted to support Social Security number (SSN) card applications during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) overall information security program and practices were effective and consistent with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requirements, as defined in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 core Inspector General (IG) FISMA reporting metrics.
During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Torrance County Detention Facility (Torrance) in Estancia, NM, we found that Torrance complied with ICE detention standards for detainee grievances and the voluntary work program. We could not assess compliance with segregation standards because no detainees were in segregation at, or near, the time of our visit.
