Posted on 11/23/2004 6:48:36 AM PST by crushelits
Federal prosecutors in Virginia yesterday charged 26 persons in a nationwide investigation of the fraudulent issuance of green cards, driver's licenses, passports, Social Security cards and other identification papers to thousands of Indonesian immigrants now living illegally throughout the United States.
U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty said the fraudulent documents allowed the immigrants for a substantial fee to obtain a wide variety of government benefits, including asylum.
Mr. McNulty said the charges resulted from a two-year investigation into the illegal practices of Indonesian immigration brokers and consultants operating in Northern Virginia and Maryland. He identified them as the Chinese Indonesian American Society in Fairfax Station, the Asian American Placement Services in Springfield, the Kumala Nusantara in Burke, and the Chinese Indonesian Pribumi Community Service in Manassas.
An affidavit in the case said the owners, employees and associates of the brokerages "knowingly defrauded the federal government and the Commonwealth of Virginia" from 1999 through this year, aiding thousands of Indonesian immigrants throughout the United States to fraudulently apply for government benefits.
The affidavit said several of those charged routinely prepared fraudulent asylum applications for Indonesian clients in return for a fee of $2,000, and that the applications typically contained false claims that those applying had been raped, sexually assaulted, beaten or robbed by Muslims in Indonesia because of their Chinese ethnicity or adherence to Christianity.
Mr. McNulty said many of the applications were supported by counterfeit Indonesian documents, including birth and baptismal certificates and police reports.
He said investigators found that some of those involved coached their clients to exploit the perceived sympathies of asylum officers and immigration judges assigned to consider the applications.
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We need a better way to search articles. Or posters need to spend a little more time looking. The same articles are being posted a half dozen times. Sometimes in the same hour. What gives?
Maybe other titles came from the AP, or Reuters, or somebody changed the title of the thread.!
Let me know what you find out will you?
ALIENS! Report your address. Every year at this time the Intergallactic Space Administration requires all aliens to report their address. ALIENS! Report your address.
Give em the Chair. I'm so sick of the rights & privileges of american citizenship being treated like a cheap commodity at a swap meet.
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