DREAM Act aside, immigration system needs investigations

The US Report ^ | 24 Nov. 2010 | Kay Day

[Crush]

“The issues you wrote about are not exclusive to California USCIS but Mayorkas has issued orders to grant ungrantable cases throughout USCIS.”—Message to The US Report

The US Report received that message after publishing columns about Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R) inquiries asking for information about potential benefits fraud in the immigration process. Grassley sent a letter to US Citizenship and Immigration Services director Alejandro Mayorkas in September.

Pointing out the level of approval for benefits, Grassley wrote that the employees claim approval ratings for benefits are around 98 percent—“despite estimates that fraudulent applications stand at about 25 percent.” Grassley has sent letters on more than one occasion in an attempt to find out more.

Immigration fraud on all levels is nothing new. Do a quick search and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

For instance in Tampa, Barbara Branks, the owner of La Gringa Professional Immigration Services got prison time for fraud. The Tampa Tribune said, “[B]ranks filed 274 fraudulent asylum petitions.” The paper said she made $816,000 in profit. Those numbers are based on what could be proved.

The Iowa Independent published a story in October about an imam “suspected of conspiracy and fraud in [the] naturalization process, an immigration offense.”

Obviously the federal infrastructure and perhaps the state infrastructure as well need to be investigated. Based on numerous public documents I have come to the conclusion that gatekeepers in government agencies may be influenced by their own political ideology—a backdoor approach to amnesty that may increase because it is not likely the DREAM Act will pass...

[La Lydia]

Obviously the federal infrastructure and perhaps the state infrastructure as well need to be investigated..."

What do roads and bridges and drainage projects have to do with immigration fraud? This article is a little hard to follow and not particularly well written.

[HiJinx]

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