Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security exposed as favoring wealthy 'White House allies,' including Hillary Clinton's brother

Department of Homeland Security's latest watchdog report reveals the agency's second man in charge, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, repeatedly "played favorites" when it came to well-connected participants in an investor-visa program.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe and brother of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Tony Rodham were the two main focuses in Mayorkas' interventions.

"Mayorkas communicated with stakeholders on substantive issues, outside of the normal adjudicatory process and intervened with the career USCIS staff in ways that benefited the stakeholders," Inspector General John Roth wrote in his report. "In... three instances, but for Mr. Mayorkas's intervention, the matter would have been decided differently."

While Mayorkas served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he oversaw EB-5, an investment-based program.

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"While I disagree with the Inspector General's report, I will certainly learn from it and from this process," Mayorkas said in a press statement following the report's release. "As the leader of U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services, I had the responsibility to ensure that cases, including the three that are the focus of the report, were decided as the law required and that agency errors were corrected."

One instance involves Mayorkas' involvement with a McAuliffe-backed effort to win funds for GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company.

"Mayorkas intervened in an administrative appeal related to the denial of a regional center's application to receive EB-5 funding to manufacture electric cars through investments in a company in which Terry McAuliffe was the board chairman," the IG report said. "The intervention was unprecedented and, because of the political prominence of the individuals involved, was well as USCIS's traditional deference to its administrative appeals process, staff perceived it as politically motivated."

Mayorkas is also accused of helping Rodham get the go on a green card program that allowed foreigners a green card if they could invest more than $500,000, known as the Gulf Coast Funds Management, which also directed funds to GreenTech.

Rodham directly contacted Mayorkas on the issue and Mayorkas then forwarded the email to others in the department marking the issue as of "high importance."

A third instance noted is Mayorkas persistent weekly updates to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada on his SLS Las Vegas casino-and-hotel development effort.

These findings raise growing concerns about the Obama Administration's decision ignore all discrepancies and name Mayorkas as deputy security at DHS.

"The sheer number of whistleblowers who came forward is a darn good indication as to how bad things were at the agency," explained Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.

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