Posted on 02/03/2015 5:26:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Federal agents in Los Angeles are investigating an L.A. shipping firm and its Iranian-born owner who for years have participated in and promoted an obscure U.S. immigration program -- allowing the company to recruit wealthy foreign investors to receive visas and potentially Green Cards, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Whistleblowers inside the federal agency that oversees the immigration have been deeply frustrated by an inability to de-certify the company, even after they became aware of the investigation and saw the company’s name surface in an alarming internal Department Homeland Security memo. The memo outlines concerns that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attempted to exploit the visa program “to infiltrate the United States.”
The program, known by the visa designation “EB-5,” offers wealthy foreign investors a way to bypass the traditional route to a Green Card. It requires they invest between $500,000 and $1 million in a certified company or project that creates U.S. jobs. The Los Angeles company, American Logistics International, first applied to participate in the program in 2009 and first began submitting names of investors for visa approval in 2011.
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“Whistleblowers inside the federal agency”
IOW, those appointees at the top have stymied the decertification.
“The Los Angeles company, American Logistics International, first applied to participate in the program in 2009 “
Coincidence that they waited until Obama’s 1st term?
FWIW, in Brad Thor’s latest book, and obscure VISA program (different from this one) is used to get infiltrators into the US. In ACT OF WAR, they come in for a student NASA program and don’t leave when the program’s over. Now I wonder if that part of the story is true.
Poorly written article. Who, where, what, when and why, remember?
Harry Reid s name is mentioned. Go figure.
“Iranian- born owner”
‘Nuff said.
...an L.A. shipping firm and its Iranian-born owner ... recruit wealthy foreign investors to receive visas and potentially Green Cards... Whistleblowers inside the federal agency that oversees the immigration have been deeply frustrated by an inability to de-certify the company... Iran's Revolutionary Guards have attempted to exploit the visa program... offers wealthy foreign investors a way to bypass the traditional route to a Green Card. It requires they invest between $500,000 and $1 million in a certified company or project that creates U.S. jobs.Creating jobs in a toothless law enforcement agency counts.
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