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Note: The following text is a quote: Eighteen Charged Following Multi-Year Fraud Investigation Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment charging 18 defendants with violating federal laws following a multi-year investigation into fraud relating to identification documents. Named in the Indictment are the following individuals: Vitaly Fedorchuk, 30 , of Parma, OH; Pavlo Mostranskyy aka Pasha, 45, of North Royalton, OH Sonya Hilaszek, 45, of Cleveland, OH Azamjon Asadov, 34, of Cincinnati, OH; Martynas Bojarcius, 29, of Palatine, IL; Jaroslav Wladyka aka Bohdan Borsuk,...

Under Hawaiian law, it is possible (both legally and illegally) for a person to have been born out of state, yet have a birth certificate on file in the Department of Health. Somehow, you know it’s coming. That OMG moment is just around the corner. You can feel the inescapable reality creeping up on you. Something will leak. Someone will spill the beans. "For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light." Luke 8:17 It isn't hard to imagine the gnawing anxiety that AKA OBAMA (Also Known...

On the same day that the owner of a Stratford driver training school was charged with forging documents to help illegal immigrants obtain driver's licenses, state police searched another driving school in Waterbury. Law enforcement sources said state police detectives executed a search warrant Thursday morning at Classic Driving School on Fairfield Avenue in Waterbury as part of what appears to be a burgeoning investigation into suspected license fraud involving undocumented immigrants. Henry Kruszewski, 57, of Milford turned himself in at state police Troop G in Bridgeport on charges of racketeering and forgery. He is charged with producing phony documents...

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Tuesday ratcheted up its effort to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, part of a broader attempt to deal with immigration and enforcement despite legal challenges and congressional inaction. The Department of Homeland Security told the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that it planned to appeal a decision by a federal judge in San Francisco that temporarily blocked efforts to target workers with inconsistent Social Security data -- a linchpin in the government's efforts to stem illegal immigration....the administration also announced that its aggressive pursuit of illegal immigrants who had committed...

A U.S. senator says immigration authorities should be on hand to arrest illegal aliens who show up to get the controversial Matricula Consular cards issued by the Mexican government. Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to place agents this weekend outside a municipal building in Lafayette, La., where Mexican consular officials had planned to issue the cards, which can be obtained by any Mexican living outside Mexico. Critics say the cards are a magnet for illegal aliens because they convey the trappings of legal status. "The Mexican government makes it perfectly clear in advertising this that...

PARIS -- The French National Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial proposal authorizing the use of DNA testing to determine whether foreigners applying for visas are actually related to family members they seek to join in France. The plan, part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to make it tougher for foreigners from Middle Eastern and African countries to immigrate to France, prompted outrage from human rights groups, opposition politicians and some members of the president's cabinet. The proposal, which also includes requirements that candidates for immigration be proficient in French and know the "values of the Republic," is part of...

CHICAGO, April 25 (UPI) -- Residents of a predominately Hispanic Chicago neighborhood took to the streets in protest after heavily armed U.S. immigration agents raided businesses. "Soldiers bombarded our neighborhood," Baltazar Enriquez told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It looked like they were marching into Iraq." Heavily armed federal officers in bullet-proof vests, locked down a strip mall Tuesday in a Southwest Side neighborhood known as Little Village, Enriquez said. The raid triggered a protest of 250 to 300 people that lasted into the evening, the newspaper said. The federal agents were searching for sellers of fake Social Security and resident alien...

An 84-year-old San Francisco woman was deported to Germany this month after admitting she worked as a guard in a Nazi-operated concentration camp, federal officials announced Tuesday. News about the dark chapter in Elfriede Lina Rinkel's past left her relatives in the Bay Area stunned. They said Rinkel had kept the secret for more than 60 years, from them and, apparently, from her late husband -- a German Jew who had fled the Holocaust himself. (SNIP) The government's charges, filed in April, say Elfriede Rinkel was born July 14, 1922, in Leipzig, Germany; served at the camp from 1944 to...

STILLMORE, Ga. -- Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago. The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just how vital the illegal immigrants were to the local economy. (SNIP) ...They worry some are still hiding without food. (SNIP) ...Federal agents also swarmed into a trailer park operated by David Robinson. Illegal immigrants were handcuffed and taken away. Almost none have returned... (SNIP) ..."These people might not have American...

One day in the winter of 1996, while 12-year-old Suad Leija was getting ready for school, more than a dozen armed FBI agents raided her family's Chicago-area home. They were looking for her stepfather, Manuel Leija-Sanchez, who federal authorities believe runs a document-fraud network -- producing fake passports, Social Security cards, driver's licenses and a variety of other official papers -- with cells throughout the United States. That cold morning, the agents were too late. Manuel Leija-Sanchez had fled during the night to Mexico after he was tipped off to the impending raid, his stepdaughter recalled. The business continued to...

The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that would administer a new guest-worker program and rule on applications from millions of illegal aliens, says the pending Senate bill doesn't give his agency enough time to prepare for that giant task. "Quite frankly, I don't think that's really practical. Ninety days to register 12 million people. Do the math," Emilio T. Gonzalez, who took over as director early this year, told The Washington Times. In a wide-ranging interview, he said he is on track to make USCIS a true part of the nation's national security team, defended the...

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a massive counterfeit check ring that two weeks ago hit a local bank for what is estimated to be more than $100,000. Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said that on the afternoon of Thursday, April 13, numerous Hispanics cashed Horton Homes payroll checks at The Peoples Bank. Authorities don’t know exactly how many people cashed checks, some went to more than one teller, but Sills said more than 100 checks counterfeited from a Horton Homes payroll check were cashed. Sills said those cashing the counterfeit checks produced fake immigration cards – commonly known...

Federal and state authorities are working to permanently close a metro Denver counterfeit documents ring allegedly masterminded by a Mexico-based crime family they believe operates in at least 33 states, churning out tens of millions of dollars worth of fake IDs. For months, investigators and prosecutors say they have been working quietly to shut down what they say is an extensive, international fake-document network involving more than 50 people working in Denver. In one real estate scheme alone, fake documents were used by illegal aliens to purchase more than 300 homes valued at $51 million. Authorities say that some document...

Charlotte, North Carolina, Oct 29 (EFE).- A round-up by authorities of undocumented immigrants has transformed a North Carolina municipality into a ghost town, its streets deserted and its factories begging for workers. The Hispanic areas of Lincolnton, a town of almost 10,000 people located west of Charlotte, have been empty since Wednesday, when local police and Lincoln County sheriff's deputies arrested 24 undocumented immigrants working in three plants of RSI, a firm that manufactures and distributes household items. "There's a lot of fear," Jorge Chavez, who runs an agency that sends goods to Costa Rica, told EFE. The undocumented immigrants...

Traffickers often use fake IDs like those in MVD corruption case By Ignacio Ibarra ARIZONA DAILY STAR The fake ID scheme uncovered at Arizona Motor Vehicle Division offices highlights challenges border agents have detecting illegal entrants, but a Border Patrol spokesman says the agency is not expecting the case to have a major impact in its local operations. U.S. Border Patrol officials would not comment on the Motor Vehicle Division case, or any involvement they had in its development. Thirty-four people were indicted Thursday, including 11 current or former MVD employees in Tucson, two former employees in Sierra Vista, two...

Below is one installment of the study material for a test that is to be administered by the American public. Other installments have been sent to you already and more will follow. Your test results will be posted on the First Wednesday after the First Monday in November 2004. 1. Because of a TIP, not the result of diligent operations, during Easter Week 2004, 88 illegal aliens are taken off a flight from Los Angeles, CA, to Newark, NJ. It has been speculated that they were using Mexican- issued Matricula cards for identification. The TSA people say enforcing immigration laws...

Edison,NJ,12/23/03 (THNT) State Police charged 3 men with forgery,tampering with public records,and conspiracy after one of them tried to obtain a NJ ID card (issued at MV facilities)with false documents. Two men,both Pakistani nationals,were arrested after members of the State Police document fraud squad,working undercover,saw them trying to obtain the identity card,using fraudulent documents. The two arrested were: Mohade Aftab Khan,age 29, of Iselin, NJ, and Fiat Muhammed Ivrizwan,age 42,of Metuchen, NJ. A third man,whose identity has not been disclosed,is still being sought. The case was handed over to the Joint Terrorism Task Force,made up of State Police detectives and...

A policy that lets people trying to fraudulently obtain Social Security cards leave with their bogus documents is coming under fire from congressional leaders after the federal inspector who blew the whistle was threatened with suspension.U.S. Reps. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) and Jerry Kleczka (D-Wis.) said the policy should be changed, especially as concern over homeland security increases. Kleczka, who serves on the congressional committee that oversees the Social Security Administration, said he would ask for a hearing. "It's a bad practice that has to be corrected," Kleczka said. Both congressmen said they were unaware of the practice until...