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ICE Arrests 50 Individuals Involved In Sham Marriage Scheme In Texas
OAN Newsroom ^ | May 14, 2019

Posted on 05/14/2019 7:52:42 AM PDT by george76

ICE agents in Texas have arrested 50 people linked to a large-scale fraudulent marriage operation. On Monday, authorities announced the suspects are in custody for participating in a wedding scam used by Vietnamese nationals to bypass immigration procedures. The defendants were joined by their families in court as back to back hearings took place.

The scheme reportedly began in August of 2013, and is responsible for over 150 sham marriages. The alleged ring leader — Ashley Nguyen — reportedly ran the operation from her home and from an office building nearby, where she created fraudulent paperwork for immigration authorities. During a raid, ICE officials found fake wedding photo albums used to make the marriages seem legitimate.

Prosecutors said U.S. citizens were recruited to marry foreigners, who paid $20,000 to $70,000 in cash for the marriage. The U.S. citizens received a cut of the money, while the Vietnamese nationals obtained visas. Prosecutors called the marriages a sham because the couples never intended to live together. Most of the couples only met once for their wedding day.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; ice; iceagents; ilhanomar; marriage; omar; texas

1 posted on 05/14/2019 7:52:43 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...
Get Ping's sister Cheryl.

She does immigration and naturalization. Plus I hear she is a shark.


2 posted on 05/14/2019 8:01:28 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: george76

Me love you long time...NOT!


3 posted on 05/14/2019 8:04:36 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: george76
And Trump would need five more terms to locate all the criminals running around who were "married" in the sham.

And another five terms to bring every former potus, potus' administration, congresscreeps, et al, who facilitated this travesty, to justice.

That would make him, what? 110 years old when he left office?

4 posted on 05/14/2019 8:13:34 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is chaos. Next step? The Abyss.)
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To: george76

Make sure you get Ilhan Omar. She did it.


5 posted on 05/14/2019 8:17:46 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: george76

Only 50?


6 posted on 05/14/2019 8:18:15 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: george76

If we prosecuted and jailed everyone who’s a crook in this country today, we’d have to go on a massive prison-building program. Actually, if we just drained the DC Swamp we’d have to do it. I am left wondering what’s happened to our population?
My answer is, immigration of all kinds. It is bull$hit that “diversity makes us stronger!” Diversity is destroying the fabric of this country. It is NOT a good thing to bring people here from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia as none of them have any idea of “assimilating” and becoming Americans first and foremost. Instead they are here to breed and inculcate our country with their “cultures,” none of which are in any way shape or form compatible with ours. Worse still, like our European “bretheren,” we’ve lost interest in procreating, so in the end the $hit we’ve “welcomed into our country” will take it over simply by making themselves the majority populations. The next Civil War will be between the Hispanics, Muslims, Asians and maybe the Blacks. But there won’t be any White Folks involved, because we will either be extinct or so small a minority that it won’t matter. The country will then have President Omar, Tlaib, or Hirono!


7 posted on 05/14/2019 8:19:44 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: akalinin

You # 10.


8 posted on 05/14/2019 8:19:58 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: SMARTY

I had a hairdresser (male (homo I think) in the late 1970s who admitted he married some woman just so she could be a citizen..this has been going on for a LOOOOONNNNGGG time.


9 posted on 05/14/2019 8:20:31 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: george76

I coulda swore that yesterday it was 100 arrested in this scheme. Is this another one, or did we already release 50 back into our society to sin no more?


10 posted on 05/14/2019 8:23:53 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: vette6387

I had an idea - turn Afghanistan into a giant prison colony of the United States. They get jobs, we’re there to watch over them.


11 posted on 05/14/2019 8:25:03 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749001/posts

100 charged.

12 posted on 05/14/2019 8:32:52 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: george76

Marriage is a sham anyway.


13 posted on 05/14/2019 8:35:08 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: akalinin

You # 10.


14 posted on 05/14/2019 8:37:20 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: goodnesswins

I had a hairdresser (male (homo I think)
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The nons are called barbers.


15 posted on 05/14/2019 9:03:55 AM PDT by o-n-money
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