Posted on 09/17/2018 5:41:41 AM PDT by SJackson
The tip of the illegal immigration iceberg -- of unknown proportions.
On August 27, 2018 the DHS website posted a report, 19 foreign nationals indicted for illegally voting in 2016 elections that began with this paragraph:
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Nineteen foreign nationals were charged with unlawfully voting in the 2016 elections Friday, and a U.S. citizen was charged with aiding and abetting an alien to falsely claim U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The indictments follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) as part of a newly created Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force (DBFTF) in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
On the following day, on August 28th, the Justice Department issued a press release about the very same case, Nineteen Foreign Nationals Charged for Voting in 2016 Election and added:
Multiple Defendants Voted In More Than One Election.
This press release reporting on the actions of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raises a number of significant issues that we will explore today.
First, however, I am compelled to note that I wrote about the newly-created Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force in my June 15, 2018 article, Trump Administration Opens Office To Find Naturalization Fraudsters in which I noted that this was a great first step, but much needs to be done.
The nineteen aliens who were the subject of the DOJ and DHS press releases were investigated by the Trump administration’s newly-created counter-fraud operation which hired additional attorneys and immigration officers to review the cases of aliens who had been ordered deported but then are believed to have assumed false identities to become lawful immigrants and subsequently acquire U.S. citizenship under their false identities by defrauding the naturalization process. Under the provisions of 8 U.S. Code § 1451 such alien’s naturalization can be revoked and the alien may also be criminally prosecuted for having committed such fraud.
Shortly after being elected, President Trump was sharply rebuked for his assertion that aliens voted during the election. In reality aliens have voted. The problem is the difficulty of detecting aliens who vote, a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 611 and the related crime of aliens making false claims to United States citizenship, a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 911.
A commonsense strategy to combat voter fraud includes requiring that voters show appropriate identification when they vote.
However, while it may be a routine requirement for people to provide authentic identity documents to cash a check, make a significant credit card purchase, board and airliner or enter an office building, many cities and states do not require ID for voting.
Democrats who have repeatedly accused the Trump administration of colluding with the Russians in the run-up to the 2016 elections have steadfastly opposed requiring voters to show identification when they vote, cynically claiming that such a requirement would “suppress voting” of the poor and members of minority communities.
Of course, voter ID requirements might well suppress the illegal voting of aliens.
Voter ID requirements would help imbue the voting system with integrity, but then the mere mention of the word “integrity” is enough to cause those politicians and their supporters to, as Clint Eastwood put it in one of his films, “go into vapor lock.”
The crime of false claim to U.S citizenship falls under the broad category of immigration fraud which also includes include the production of fraud identity and supporting documents used in conjunction with applications for visas and immigration benefits. Immigration fraud also includes schemes that generally involve criminal conspiracies such as marriage fraud wherein an alien marries a U.S. citizen or lawful immigrant in order to be able to be granted resident alien status.
Immigration fraud is a major issue that, until the election of President Trump, went largely ignored even though the 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as the key entry and embedding tactic of terrorists. This fact served as the predication for an extensive article and a booklet I wrote on the topic of immigration fraud under the common title, Immigration Fraud, Lies That Kill.
Immigration fraud undermines the integrity of the immigration system as well as national security and was also the topic of the very first Congressional hearing in which I participated back on May 20, 1997 when the topic of that hearing was, Visa Fraud and Immigration Benefits Application Fraud. That hearing was conducted by the House Subcommittee in Immigration and Claims and was predicated on two deadly terror attacks carried out in the United States by aliens in 1993 at the CIA and at the first deadly attack at the World Trade Center.
Illegal aliens who make false claims to United States citizenship may do so for a number of reasons including a desire to not be deported from the United States. When I attended the U.S. Border Patrol Academy when I hired on as an Immigration Inspector one of the skills that were taught as a part of the curriculum was detecting and breaking false claims to United States citizenship. (Back then all INS personnel who enforced and/or administered the laws contained within the Immigration and Nationality Act went for training at the Border Patrol Academy that was then located in Los Fresnos, Texas just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican city of Matomoros.)
To my knowledge no other law enforcement academy provides such training.
If that's the rate at which this activity is being caught, we're doomed.
Ha! Only 19?
Throw the book at them. Send them all a message.
How many zeroes are missing?
I’d guess at least 3, or even 4, zeros missing for in Texas. Maybe 5 in California.
And who knows how many the DNC is having bussed around as they have for the last 5 decades per that one bragging Leftwinger?
And for which candidate/party did these criminals vote?
Why the hell did Trump shut down the voter fraud investigation?
Because the only states that were willing to give up their election records are red states where the cheating isn’t rampant.
” but...but...SEE!!! It’s not wide-spread!”
-Lunatic Liberals
at least THEY don’t say they’re “illegal” aliens!
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GyG@Planet~WTF???
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Whew... Thank goodness it’s only 19... With tens of millions of undocumented illegals currently residing in the USA, you would think there would be at least 20 or more.
They need to add a few zeros to that.
A Dollar General in Wilmington, NC actually caught dozens of “people” stealing/looting via a news crew. Everything was on film. Police only arrested 5.
MAKE STORIES LIKE THIS GO VIRAL
They are going to go ALL OUT with voter fraud this year !!!
Why cant we have teams follow busses around that drive from poll station to poll station and film people getting off the bus?
Add a few more zeros to that number.
I’d presume these are the criminals they COULDN’T ‘over-look’
....or, they voted (R) instead of (D).
I renewed my drivers license a couple weeks ago, Illinois. First question, are you registered to vote. If not, they'd do it. At the end of my contact with a nice attendant, paperwork, eye exam and such, he asked again, are you registered to vote. Yes, I am. I only wanted to register once. But no documentation was necessary.
With my renewal, I had a veteran designation added to my license, handy for discounts. Like illegal voting, it's a crime to falsely claim to be a veteran. Did they take my word for it without documentation, well, no. Did my dd214 suffice, well not exactly. I had to send it to the state Veteran Affairs department, where they look it over, stamp and sign it, and return it to me. And the drivers license folk keep the certified copy.
Is that a big deal, no, but what's more important, verifying citizenship to vote, or verifying veteran status? And what are the political ramifications? In Illinois, if you want to vote you get to vote.
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