Question: What’s the last thing any American wants to hear right after a weekend in which radicalized Muslim migrants perpetrated multiple terror attacks on U.S. soil?

Answer: The U.S. government accidentally granted citizenship to over 800 individuals “from countries of concern to national security.”

“This just underlines the point that refugees in particular cannot be vetted … It is literally impossible to vet people from the kind of failed states that send refugees.”

No, this isn’t a joke — it’s the Obama administration in action.

An internal Department of Homeland Security audit released Monday revealed that at least 853 immigrants from “‘special interest countries’ — those that present a national security concern for the United States — or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration fraud,” were accidentally granted citizenship, according to The Associated Press.

John Roth, Homeland Security’s inspector general, discovered that the immigrants provided false information in their citizenship applications but weren’t caught because their fingerprints were missing from agency databases.

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The report revealed that fingerprints are missing from government databases for as many as 315,000 immigrants who are fugitive criminals or have outstanding final deportation orders.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the report also revealed that of those 315,000 files without fingerprints, roughly 148,000 of them still have yet to be reviewed by agents to see if fingerprint data is available to add to them.

The report also revealed that at least three of these accidental citizens were able to obtain aviation or transportation worker credentials, granting them security clearance for sensitive ports of entry. A fourth became — and still is, the report suggests — a law enforcement officer.

This must be that “tough vetting” Hillary Clinton said she favors in a press conference Monday.

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“It’s outrageous but it shouldn’t be surprising,” Ira Mehlman, media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told LifeZette. “An earlier inspector general’s work … basically said that the ethos under this administration is ‘get the yes,’ — do whatever you have to do to dispense immigration benefits,” Mehlman said.

“That’s what the objective is, not do your job diligently,” he continued. “It’s hard to imagine that in this day and age there are 140,000 sets of fingerprints that they still haven’t digitized. It seems that the priority for [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] was getting ready to grant deferred action,” Mehlman added.

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Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, agrees. “The real question is why wasn’t that data digitized,” Krikorian said. “INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service] and later Homeland Security knew this was a problem. Congress gave them money to retroactively digitize fingerprints and they say they used it all and ran out,” Krikorian added, and noted that a request for additional funding was never made, nor were additional funds ever allocated to address the problem.

“This is not just a matter of technology outstripping the info we have, this really is an example of negligence on the part of the administration,” said Krikorian. “It just wasn’t a high priority for them — to fix the data so people like this could be caught.”

“This is not one of these cases where we should be kicking the bureaucrats,” Krikorian said. “This is something that comes from the top. If the White House and the Secretary of Homeland Security said it is top priority that we get all this information fixed so we can do the best job possible in vetting people, then it would have gotten done,” Krikorian added.

Krikorian noted that not only does the problem underscore failures and misguided priorities on the part of the Obama administration, but that the full extent of the problem could be far worse than anyone has yet realized. “This was just a sample that the audit pulled, this wasn’t necessarily a comprehensive look at this issue. There’s probably thousands of people like this,” Krikorian said.

The national security threat is obvious. “Most terrorists, as the 9/11 Commission … noted, entered the United States through ports of entry and then went on to violate the terms of their admission and/or seek to acquire lawful status through false claims to political asylum, by marrying Americans, or otherwise gaming the immigration benefits program,” according to former INS agent Michael Cutler, an expert on how terrorists game the immigration system.

“Citizenship enables aliens to obtain security clearances and live in total freedom within our country. U.S. citizenship is highly valued by international terrorists because they are able to acquire new names when the naturalize and they also keep their original citizenship and passports,” Cutler said. “This enables them to use both passports to conceal their movements around the world.”

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Both Mehlmen and Krikorian also said that that USCIS’ massive mistake belies the administration’s — and Clinton’s — claim that any Muslim migrants coming to the U.S. would be properly vetted.

“They still persist in telling the American people, ‘don’t worry everyone’s going to be fully vetted,’ when they can’t even find information that’s in the government’s own records right here in this country,” noted Mehlman.

“And we’re supposed to believe that they’re going to do a thorough background check on somebody who’s coming from Syria where we don’t even have personnel on the ground?” Mehlman asked.

“This is our own information that we weren’t able to access — let alone the Syrian DMV,” said Krikorian. “If we can’t access our own information in trying to vet people, can we really expect our Homeland Security people to be able to access foreign data in doing their vetting?” he asked.

“This just underlines the point that refugees in particular cannot be vetted. Period,” Krikorian said. “It is literally impossible to vet people from the kind of failed states that send refugees, whether it’s Syria or Somalia or somewhere else.”