WTF does Pat Kennedy know?
From: Mills, Cheryl D
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:45 AM
To: Kennedy, Patrick F
Subject: Re: preliminary report
Any further pushing come on this?
From: Kennedy, Patrick F
To: Mills, Cheryl D
Sent: Thu Feb 18 20:04:58 2010
Subject: FW: preliminary report
Cheryl
Update on the 12/twelve "new" children
Essentially they are really "new"
Regards
pat
From: Bond, Michele T
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:00 PM
To: Jacobs, Janice L; Kennedy, Patrick F
Subject: preliminary report
Although the Governor's office believes all of these children were "in the adoption pipeline" before the earthquake, now
that we have their names and USCIS has been able to run a preliminary check about them, they have found information
on only two of the orphans. Although it is preliminary, the following information raises some questions.
From: Ruppel, Joanna [mailto
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:27 PM
To: Mayorkas, Alejandro N; Kielsmeier, Lauren; Whitney, Reitz; Bond, Michele T
Cc: Steve, Bucher
Subject: Fw: The 12 BRESMA children at the Embassy now
Thanks, Whitney. Ali, Lauren and Michele, just keeping you informed. Please note Whitney's information regarding
these cases below. It is preliminary, but it is what we know so far.
Joanna
Original Message
From: Reitz, Whitney A
To: Ruppel, Joanna
Cc: Bannis, Pius D
Sent: Thu Feb 18 19:18:20 2010
Subject: The 12 BRESMA children at the Embassy now
Joanna,
Out of the 12 children listed who are at the Embassy now, we only have ever heard of 2 of them before.
The other 10 were not on any previous list of children given to us by BRESMA, nor are they in the database in any way.
BRESMA had given us a complete list of all of its children on January 18, including those that were destined for France.
==None of these children match with any of those on the previous list except the two, and those two were not destined for
France. ==
We have received one e-mail from a prospective parent for one of these children just today, stating clearly that the match occurred after January 12. I expect we'll get 8 more e-mails just like this one from the others PAPs in the near
term.
The two children we have heard of before were on previous BRESMA lists as "waiting children".
W.
Whitney A. Reitz
Branch Chief, Programs
International Operations Division
USCIS/RAIO
Department of Homeland Security
202-272-1684