Posted on 09/25/2005 5:39:50 AM PDT by Calpernia
IMMIGRATION LAWYER SENTENCED FOR LABOR/IMMIGRATION FRAUD Lawyer Prepared False Immigration Document
Greenbelt, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein announces that today U.S. District Court Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Maqsood Mir, 52, an immigration lawyer practicing in Potomac, Maryland, to 78 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release in connection with his April 14, 2005 conviction by a federal jury of immigration fraud related to the filing of false immigration documents that allowed illegal aliens to enter and/or remain in the United States. The Judge also ordered Mir to pay a $25,000 fine and Mir Law Associates to pay a $200, 000 fine.
The jury determined that Maqsood Mir; his law firm, Mir Law Associates, LLC; Bajwa, 39, of Herndon, Virginia, a businessman and sponsoring employer; and Bajwa’s construction company, New Superstar Corporation, were guilty of various charges of filing false labor certifications. Mir Law Associates, Bajwa and New Superstar Corporation were also convicted of conspiracy to submit false labor certifications and substantive immigration fraud counts.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein stated “This case demonstrates our resolve to hold accountable unethical professionals who take advantage of the trust placed in them by those with no knowledge of the law, and to ensure the fair application of the immigration laws in the United States.”
Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor, said “Today's sentencing of this corrupt attorney and his associates brings an end to their scheme to defraud governmental programs. My office is committed to continuing our close working relationship with other law enforcement agencies to protect the integrity of the foreign labor certification process."
According to trial testimony, Mir, Bajwa and others took advantage of a program administered by the Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services in which aliens, upon receiving an approved labor certification, could enter or remain in the United States in order to work for a United States employer. Testimony showed that beginning in 1998 and continuing until 2003, Mir and Bajwa falsified labor certification applications to make it appear as if the aliens really existed and that they were to be sponsored by and work for U.S. employers, when in fact many of those employers knew nothing about the aliens. Testimony showed that some of the alien’s names were fictitious, and Mir and Bajwa offered for sale approved immigration documents to the highest bidding aliens.
Bajwa is scheduled to be sentenced on October 7, 2005. Co-defendant Abdul Javaid, is scheduled to be sentenced on October 3 2005 and codefendant, Zulfiqar Ali, was sentenced on September 19, 2005 to 15 months imprisonment.
United States Attorney Rosenstein commended the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their investigation. Mr. Rosenstein praised Assistant U.S. Attorneys David I. Salem and Chan Park, who prosecuted the case.
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>>>>According to trial testimony, Mir, Bajwa and others took advantage of a program administered by the Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services in which aliens, upon receiving an approved labor certification, could enter or remain in the United States in order to work for a United States employer. Testimony showed that beginning in 1998 and continuing until 2003, Mir and Bajwa falsified labor certification applications to make it appear as if the aliens really existed and that they were to be sponsored by and work for U.S. employers, when in fact many of those employers knew nothing about the aliens. Testimony showed that some of the alien’s names were fictitious, and Mir and Bajwa offered for sale approved immigration documents to the highest bidding aliens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts?page=38#38
Impact from illegal alien labor:
- Costing health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement, accruing at $30 billion per year.
- USA is foregoing $35 billion a year in income tax collections because of the number of jobs that are now off the books.
- Census Bureau estimates that 8.7 million people are illegally residing in the USA
- Urban Institute estimates a total of 9.3 million are illegally residing in the USA
- Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a total of 9.2 million are illegally residing in the USA
- The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) stated that the Bureau of Labor could have missed as many as 10% of illegal aliens, since illegal aliens avoid census questionnaires. The CIS suggests the total illegal population is at 10 million or higher (March 2004).
- Employers have incentive to hire undocumented workers off the books.
- Overseas labor markets have forced US employers to find innovative ways to capitalize on sources of cheaper labor to stay competitive.
- Employers place pressure on the government to ignore the flood of cheap labor.
- Services, ie but not limited to: public school enrollment, language proficiency programs, and building permits, that cater to illegal aliens have increased in areas that are considered gateways for immigration.
- The top nine states that account for 50% of illegal aliens are: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
- Sole authority to govern immigration flow is placed on the federal government.
- Responsibility for providing support to legal and illegal immigrants rests with the state and local governments.
- Immigrants send home on average $1,400 to $1,500 per year through money transfers (also called Remittances).
- As per the World Bank in 2002, people sent $133 billion worldwide. Developing countries accounted for $88 billion of that.
- Remittances from the United States to Mexico have tripled to $13 billion between 1995 and 2003.
- As per the Pew Hispanic Center, 39% of surveyed Latino immigrants listed themselves as having legal status to opening bank accounts. This enables cash transfers through private money centers such as Western Union and Money Gram.
- HOWEVER, banks including Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank began accepting matriculas, which are photographed identity cards for Mexicans living in the US.
- Matriculas are obtainable by any legal or illegal Mexican. Matriculas are widely obtainable through Mexican consulates across the USA.
- To date, around 2.5 million matriculas have been issued, and the number is growing.
- In major illegal alien gateway cities, the influx of immigrants has led to a housing boom unexplained by official population growth.
- In New Jersey, the three gateway towns are New Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark.
- Housing permits in these three towns shot up over six-fold, while the rest of the three counties only saw a three-fold increase.
- 80% of these permits were designated for multiple tenent dwellings.
- Official statistics state that illegal aliens in New Jersey have jumped 110% – an estimate that is inconsistent with the housing statistics. Local realtors' stats for multiple tenent housing and school enrollments suggest the number is higher.
- The major illegal alien gateway cities have experienced school enrollments much higher than projections.
- The decrease in the number of births in the past decade had led education administrators to expect decreasing school enrollments as a post echo boom trend.
- A higher immigration rate, however, has offset the impact of declining births.
- Enrollment stats for major illegal alien gateway city school districts that included: Queens, New York; Elizabeth, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Wake County in North Carolina revealed explosive growth in immigrant students, far beyond numbers consistent with *legal* migration limits.
- NYC public school system is the largest in the nation, enrollment of 1.1 million students.
- Immigrant student enrollment for 1998-2001 was 103,000, with Queens accounting for the largest share, 37,000.
- Between 1990 and 2001, more than half of New York City’s school districts increased their enrollments 10% or more, driven by a high number of immigrant students.
- New York City Public Schools, 1999 to 2001: 102,867 immigrant students: Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Ecuador, Colombia and Haiti.
The concept of the "innocent border crossing laborer" has been is over. Internationalist anti-Sovereignty groups are behind the push neutralize borders. This is a fight for our National survival. Just as the 2nd Amendment is not about hunting, our Border laws are not about "picking grapes". Knowing that this is war with a real enemy should change the penalties for aiding and abetting the soldiers attacking us. Treason comes to mind.
Sounds like President Bush's Amnesty Guest Worker program.
bump.
Of interest:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489964/posts
ICE HELPS BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES NAB 48 INDIVIDUALS LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SMUGGLING RING
-AIRLINE EMPLOYEES AND CORRUPT OFFICIALS AMONG THE ARRESTED-
The two fastest growing neighborhoods in Newark are Ironbound and the North Ward. Even the illegals don't want to settle in Blood and Crip territory (Newark's Central, West and South Wards).
Fine! Now disbar them! Never allow them to practice law in this country again.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Day Laborer Site is Designed to Facilitate Illegal Activity
Aug 1, 2005
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton offered the following statement today to the Herndon Town Council as it considered a proposal by "Project Hope and Harmony" to operate a taxpayer-funded "Day Laborer Site" in the Town of Herndon...
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Supervisors approve funding for day labor sites
Sept 14, 2005
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved $400,000 Monday for the management of day labor sites in Fairfax County as part of its carryover spending from last year's budget. Project Hope and Harmony, a group that plans to manage a temporary day labor site in Herndon, hopes to obtain a portion of that money to aid the group's efforts.
Among the speakers were representatives of the group Judicial Watch, which recently filed a lawsuit against the Town of Herndon on behalf of a group of Herndon residents to try and stop the labor site there.
Paul Orfanedes, director of litigation for Judicial Watch, did not threaten any legal action against the county but said the expenditure would violate federal immigration laws and urged the county supervisors to "refuse to condone illegal hiring."
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There 'otta be a law.
These lawyers are giving criminals a bad name.
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