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SIX PERSONS INDICTED IN MULTI-STATE AMNESTY FRAUD CONSPIRACYAccording 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.