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Feds Break Up Alleged Amnesty Scam
AP ^ | 5/23/6

Posted on 05/23/2006 1:04:48 PM PDT by SmithL

ATLANTA -- A clergyman and five others are accused of taking more than $200,000 from illegal immigrants in exchange for helping them gain amnesty by lying about when they entered the United States.

An indictment unsealed May 18 says the defendants held meetings related to the scam in Brockton, Mass.; Boca Raton, Fla.; and at least twice at a Marietta, Ga., church where one of them, Ruy Silva, was the pastor.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; godfathers
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To: Mamzelle

to hear most "church leaders" around here in MN, it's our Godly duty to accept
every illegal into the country that we kind find.

I guess amnesty is next to godliness.


21 posted on 05/23/2006 3:15:54 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
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To: Rakkasan1
I'm not talking ideology, I'm talking Tony Soprano. The churches may be churches, but they are also fronts for the black market labor racket. It may not be everywhere, but it's in the rural mountainous south. Who takes the cell calls from Mexico? Who negotiates with crooked contractors? Who manages the transports and arrivals? Who buys an acre of dumpy apartments for the illegals to live in?

Who manages the behavior of the illegals once they get here, and who gets rid of the troublemakers?

Who is going to be so powerful in a few years that we may as well not have a Mayor or a Sheriff?

22 posted on 05/23/2006 3:27:45 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: SmithL
Some more info...
SIX PERSONS INDICTED IN MULTI-STATE AMNESTY FRAUD CONSPIRACY
According to United States Attorney Nahmias, the charges and other information presented in court: EMMA GERALD, the pastor of a local church, held herself out as a consultant to aliens seeking amnesty in the United States. GERALD did business under the name “EJ Consulting Services.” Under a program known as the “Catholic Social Services/Lulac/Newman Amnesty Program” (the “CSS Amnesty Program”), certain aliens who were illegally in the United States were eligible to apply for temporary residence in this country. In order to be eligible, an alien had to meet certain requirements, including having been present in the United States unlawfully from prior to January 1982; and having previously applied for temporary residence but having been turned down because the alien left and re-entered the United States without the permission of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

An article from December 9, 2005...Fear prods immigrants into expensive leap of hope
Word hurtled around the Brazilian community with lightning speed.
A woman from Georgia -- ''Pastor Emma," she called herself -- promised to show immigrants how they could remain in the United States legally under a 1986 amnesty law. So several hundred undocumented Brazilians flocked to the Radisson Hotel Brockton to hear her pitch.

23 posted on 05/23/2006 3:57:39 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: fantom
I'm not sure, I believe the Fence Project is kicking off in AZ. I handle things in Texas. :-)
24 posted on 05/23/2006 4:03:08 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ 2005, Texas Minutemen El Paso, Oct and April 2006)
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To: philman_36

I wonder what mr catholicfreeper, and sinkspur have to say about this.


Bwaahahaa


25 posted on 05/23/2006 6:37:02 PM PDT by axes_of_weezles
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To: TLI
Jeezz, I can't believe this entire nation is one vote away from total invasion.

Mexico has had the red carpet rolled out to them for MANY years. Come one, come all, get free everything, take our jobs, bring in diseases, close our hospitals, overload our schools, and it's all OK because we need the "hispanic" vote. Regular Americans don't count anymore!

Not surprising that now they think they own America. They want to own it, but they want us to pay for it.

We can thank our traitorous politicians for the mess they've allowed to happen. Vote third party, surprise all of them. "Both" parties have sold us out!

26 posted on 05/23/2006 6:49:03 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: Izzy Dunne

More proof that any guest-worker or amnesty plan is a con game.


27 posted on 05/23/2006 8:56:40 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: SmithL

The FBI is gonna raid the Senate?


28 posted on 05/23/2006 8:58:27 PM PDT by heights
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To: janetgreen
Vote third party, surprise all of them. "Both" parties have sold us out!

If the pubies trip on their di... uh, shoelaces, again.., I am voting third party (Constitution Party) after voting for President Bush twice. I encourage all who go on about "teach them a lesson and stay home" to get up, get in the car and go vote Constitution Party.

I want them to KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY VOTES THEY LOST by simply not following RULE 1. I, as it is my generous and forgiving nature, will provide a rendition of all three Basic Rules for Government.

RULE 1... GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, YOU ARE HERE BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.

RULE 2... Whenever Government becomes destructive to the Ends, OF Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.

RULE 3... It is the Duty OF THE GOVERNED to throw off a Government that produces a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations which evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism.

RULE 4... ANY attempt to suppress Rule 1 or Rule 2 results in the enforcement of Rule 3.

29 posted on 05/23/2006 10:26:09 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ 2005, Texas Minutemen El Paso, Oct and April 2006)
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To: TLI
I am voting third party (Constitution Party)

Everyone should read the CP platform, it's true American! I gave up on Bush after he refused to secure the borders after 9/11/01. That's when I turned to the Constitution Party, to send a message to the imbeciles in Washington.

30 posted on 05/24/2006 12:34:07 AM PDT by janetgreen
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