Posted on 05/15/2010 1:32:14 AM PDT by Cindy
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Sterling, Va., - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a Bolivian man at Washington-Dulles International Airport on Thursday on allegations that he was an impostor pretending to be a U.S. citizen.
Officers arrested Juan Condori Sejas, 51, after he attempted to use a Puerto Rico birth certificate and a U.S. Social Security Card to acquire a Customs seal on his Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport employee ID. A Customs seal allows bearers access to restricted security areas.
“Customs and Border Protection officers are proficient at detecting fraudulent identity documents and suspected that the birth certificate that Conderi Sejas possessed is a fake,” said Christopher Hess, CBP port director for the Port of Washington, D.C. “This expertise is a significant deterrent to keeping illegal aliens, narco-traffickers and terrorists away from airport employment positions that could facilitate the smuggling of humans, weapons, currency or narcotics into the United States, and it helps to keep airline passengers safe.”
During routine questioning, Condori Sejas allegedly claimed to have crossed the U.S. border with Mexico in 2006 without CBP inspection and that he purchased the birth certificate and social security card from a human trafficker.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia is prosecuting Condori Sejas for immigration fraud.
CBP placed a detainer on Condori Sejas, who will likely be removed from the United States should he be convicted. Foreign nationals who violate U.S. immigration law may be barred from returning to the U.S. for a period of no less than five years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
Hat Tip: Freeper nw arizona granny.
Interesting this guy used a Puerto Rico birth cert.....Puerto Ricans I work with tell me that the PR BCs are so easy to forge that PR will have to re-issue BCs for all born in PR.
Some good work from the CBP
Re “easy to forge”:
Smile at the guys and ask them, “How do you know?”
“Some good work from the CBP”
Ditto that.
As I understand it PR has made all BCs issued before a certain date, illegal and all of those people will have to reapply.
Thanks to both of you re the info on PR Birth Certificates.
I didn’t know that.
Boy, the CBP doesn’t half pat itself on the back for doing its job, does it?
Good job, now may I suggest heading over to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next assignment.
FYI:
Puerto Rico has declared that ALL of its birth certificates issued prior to JULY 1, 2010 are INVALID. This will require that those claiming to be born in Puerto Rico will have to obtain a new (presumably more secure) birth certificate to establish their nationality! Better late than never!
See:http://www.prfaa.com/birthcertificates/
1. "pretending to be a U.S. citizen." Assuming that the perp used his fake BC and SS card to do this, at least one felony.
2. "he attempted to use a Puerto Rico birth certificate and a U.S. Social Security Card to acquire a Customs seal his Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport employee ID" At least two more felonies, probably more. (Why would an illegal infiltrator risk close scrutiny of false documentation, just to get a special clearance, if not for a serious, nefarious purpose?
3. "his Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport employee ID" Presumably, he used at least the SS number to obtain this ID, another felony. Almost certainly, he also used a driver license for Identification, which he must have necessarily used the false SS, to obtain. another felony.
4. "crossed the U.S. border with Mexico in 2006 without CBP inspection" If this was his ONLY illegal infiltration, only a misdemeanor crime. Otherwise, another Felony.
5. "purchased the birth certificate and social security card" At least two more felonies.
This person has committed, at the very least, 8 felony crimes (but only to "feed his family," by doing "work that Americans wouldn't do"). (IN a way, this is so: most Americans wouldn't "do work" that required committing serial felonies. If they did that kind of work, we would label them "criminals." Illegal infiltrators are labeled "undocumented workers."
An American citizen could be imprisoned for forty years, for 8 felonies. This illegal infiltrator will probably be sent home:
"will likely be removed from the U S"
Maybe they will be really hard, an make him go to bed without his supper!
DG
great post!
Any chance he was an agent working for Morales or with direction from Chavez through Morales?
Interesting question, but I don’t know the answer to it.
Interesting........
Thank you for giving this a thread of its own.
You’re welcome granny.
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