Posted on 08/09/2017 8:54:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Greg Meeks of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. These public officials have at one time or another employed one of three Pakistani Muslim brothers or their family and friends caught up in a criminal theft and hacking probe of the House Democrats' information security systems. In all, IT worker Imran Awan and his family and friends hoovered up an estimated $4 million in government funds over a period of 13 years.
For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case -- most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000.
Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Rep. Meeks. This reeks.
My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers -- like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT?
And if they're not H-1Bs, how exactly did Awan and company get here, when did they get here, and who brought them over here and why?
These are simple questions. Given that these foreign IT workers now under investigation were paid for with our tax dollars, Americans deserve to know their path to the public trough. This is especially true when so many members of Congress in both parties continue to clamor for expanding foreign guest-worker programs like H-1B and refuse to enact freezes on corrupted visa programs exploited by foreign tourists (B visas), students (F-1 visas) and workers (H visas) acting in bad faith.
Moreover, U.S. tech workers have grown increasingly vocal about being forced to train underqualified, shoddily vetted foreign replacements before getting pink-slipped -- and increasingly alarmed at their access to sensitive personal, financial and health data.
Awan first landed a job with former Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler as an "information technology director" in 2004 at the ripe age of 24 or 25. His younger brother, Jamal, is reportedly only 23 years old, yet has pulled in a salary of nearly $160,000 a year since 2014 (when he was 20!) as an information technology worker for Democrat Rep. Julia Brownley. That's 3.1 times greater than the median salary for a House IT worker, according to InsideGov.
Who sponsored these young foreign techies and chose them to do work in our nation's capital doing a job that countless young Americans are qualified to do? If not H-1B, did they arrive first as students on foreign visas (who are supposed to return home after their course of study), then game the system to work through the cheap-labor loopholes, such as the Optional Practical Training program? Or did they switch visa categories? Did they pull strings through their well-connected Democratic employers?
The communications official in Rep. Castro's office, which employed Imran's brother, Jamal, responded that she would "touch base with some colleagues" and keep me posted. No word since. The others didn't bother to answer at all, nor did they respond when I followed up last week.
As for defiant Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who only fired Awan after his arrest two weeks ago, it's apparently un-American to question how foreign criminal suspects got to America and stayed here. Schultz last week cited "racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had" to deflect from her eyebrow-raising handling of the matter, which now involves smashed hard drives seized from Awan's home by the FBI.
The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas. But it shouldn't take a Senate demand letter to penetrate the Dems' partisan protectionism. We paid the salaries of their suspect foreign IT minions. They answer to us.
Its a separate issue, but about 8 years ago, I was consulting at an electronics plant in Massachusetts that was being closed down, and work transferred to China. The US workers knew what was coming, and even had to host teams of Chinese workers and engineers to whom they had to teach their jobs!
The American workers were nonetheless polite and generally helpful to both their management and Chinese guests. I was very surprised by the whole scene. I would not have blamed them if they organized and sealed the gates to the factory - but they didn't.
I don’t know any Dem’s need go to prison over this one issue. They may only be guilty of being embarrassed dupes.
HAHA, you are too much Liz :)
When is the FBI going to get involved?
When is the FBI going to do a pre-dawn raid on Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s house?
When is the FBI going to crack down on RAT scandals?
Michelle I love your questions... Try asking Lying Ryan how he allowed the House of Representative to stay compromised all spring and summer?
Day after tomorrow?
Universities, non-profit research facilities, and government agencies can hire an unlimited number of H-1B workers that do not count against the quota for corporate H-1Bs.
There is no central database or standardized reporting that is required for the non-quota H-1Bs, so nobody knows how many there are or where they all work.
The number of corporate H-1Bs is 85,000 per year -times- 6 years of automatic renewals -plus- hold over H-1Bs who are being sponsored by their employers for Green Cards.
Minimum Corporate H-1B Estimate - 650,000
Minimum Non-Quota H-1B Estimate - 350,000
Send them to prison for anything you can seize on. It may be the only time they’re vulnerable.
They ALWAYS deserve it. 50 million unborn children will be sure they all get afterlife justice. If they get some here too, it’s gravy.
Re: “I was very surprised by the whole scene. I would not have blamed them if they organized and sealed the gates to the factory - but they didn’t.”
A very simple explanation...
They get a generous severance package, a pre-paid job search agency, and a favorable job reference *IF* they train their replacements and sign a comprehensive non-disparagement agreement.
Excellent oped with some great questions.
Always a possibility, since democrats see politics as the road to riches. Any notion that democrats were unsuspecting victims, or innocent in any way, is just garbage. They seem to operate in DC from a position of absolute antipathy toward the country and/or a desire to get rich through any means.
Regardless of whose watch it may be, democrats are always amenable to corruption.
LOL! I needed that laugh.
Agree.
Michelle poses some good questions about how the awons got here in the first place.
Thanks Liz. Great post with the info on the crime syndicate members. Enemies within ALERT!
Tracking the Castro brothers (out of San Antonio) is probably necessary. They were the golden boys of the future Left and then not so much, as they were not particularly well spoken I think. Their mentors were in power positions, in DC, and occasionally their name pops up to threaten Republican office holders in Texas, but their aim seems to be DC.
Nefarious ties with DWS and the Imran’s is absolutely no surprise for Texans to be hearing.
Thanks, Liz!
I've been asking this question, too.
It's not enough that they didn't seek out qualified Americans, they ended up paying top-dollar salaries to the foreign workers when H-1B abusers hire them on the cheap to save costs.
-PJ
The mother of US Cong Joaquin Castro, San Antonio, and his identical twin brother -- San Diego Mayor Julian Castro is Mamsita Mamie Castro---is Maria “Rosie” Castro--a hardline La Raza activist.
Freshman Cong Joaquín Castro warned that if Repubs invoked the so-called Hastert rule, the House will not pass comprehensive immigration reform.
So I guess that put the kibosh to the ambitious Castro family's plans for America, thank God. God only knows how much San Diego tax money, HUD money, and Congressional tax money----from her sons----is going into furthering mamasita's La Raza activities.
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro---2012 Democrat convention keynoter---genially introduced the twins' mother, Maria “Rosie” Castro to the convention-goers. Mamasita Castro is a radical ethnocentric, anti-assimilationist....a key figure in the activities of the blood-thirsty, tax-funded “La Raza."
Obummber stupidly appointed Julian Castro to head HUD.
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AMERICANS ARE ALREADY FUNDING MAMASITA'S HATE-FILLED ORGANIZATION BIGTIME: In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given to La Raza charter schools in the form of US Dept of Education grants.
LA RAZA schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan on US soil, and even Aztec math.
In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the teaching of murder and violence in US public schools, the federally-funded La Raza organization operates 100 charter schools across America.
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Taxpayers demand an investigation into La Raza's finances, .....and Castro's grant-allocation activities at HUD.
An exhaustive investigation should commence, to uncover all of the govt fraud at HUD---Dr Ben Carson found hundreds of millios of dollars missing when he got to HUD after Castro.
Abuse of public office, and falsifying of Official Government Documents is punishable by 10 year incarceration.
Good job, Liz, on the Castro spawns. Scary creeps. Open to corruption or they would be found nowhere near La Raza mom and DWS.
The whole bunch like communism.
The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas. <<<
LOL...Oh those records!!...well they cant be found....Kinda like the The microfilms that were found for the time period include “NARA Record Group A3573, Reel 184, INA records from July 28, 1961 through Aug. 7, 1961” and “NARA Record Group A3573, Reel 185, INA records from Aug. 8, 1961 through Aug. 12, 1961.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/arpaio-investigation-obama-might-be-kenyan/#tKmFje6jyv7BdueH.99
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