Posted on 05/17/2019 7:02:18 AM PDT by Twotone
Federal prosecutors have broken up a major marriage fraud ring in Houston that charged nearly 50 Vietnamese migrants up to $70,000 to provide them with fake spouses, phony wedding pictures and fraudulent documents, all for a shot at a U.S. green card.
Investigators were tipped to the scam after an officer at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spotted something fishy in 2017 and alerted fraud investigators, unraveling a scam that spanned from Texas to Vietnam and involved nearly 50 fake marriages.
Now 96 people, many of them illegal immigrants, stand charged, and USCIS is looking at whether it can revoke visas or green cards for those who took advantage of the scam.
“Marriage fraud is a serious crime,” said Tony Bryson, district director at USCIS, who said the operation showed the government has the ability to sniff out scams.
Yet nobody has a good sense for how widespread fraud is in marriage. One former USCIS employee told The Washington Times that 30% to 50% of marriage-based applications are at least “questionable” and should go under stricter scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I actually know someone who has done this twice. Once to allow them to stay in the country and once to allow someone else to stay in the country.
I’m certain its rampant.
Someone here in Town....married 3 times. What a scam he ran. All legal. Wonder how much he pocketed.
Didn’t that Muslim woman in Congress, Ilhan Omar, kinda commit marriage fraud to get in here??? She married her brother or something like that...
We need look no further than Rep. Ilhan Omar.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3742424/posts
Go after the illegals walking across the border with their drugs and sex trafficking.
“Now 96 people, many of them illegal immigrants, stand charged, and USCIS is looking at whether it can revoke visas or green cards for those who took advantage of the scam.”
Whether it can revoke...??? What’s wrong with this picture?
Arranged marriages are a very prominent scam among "the religion of peace." We need to rigorously pursue these sham marriages........that rag-head in the House married her brother to get him in the US and to get a free education. She broke several laws to do this....she's an elected felon.
CASE IN POINT: the Antelope, Oregon cult episode. The cult leader was outsed for arranging sham mariages for the cultists. Read on.
The whole Oregon episode showed the extreme murderous nature of people posing as "pious religionists"....an act perfected by evil Muslims.
REALITY CHECK One Antelope resident observed: “At first, they were seen not as a threat. Then they started buying property. They moved enough people in to get a majority on the town council . . . changed the town's name to Rajneesh. Main Street turned into Bhagwan Blvd. The commune's creeping power-grab (like Muslims) took over the town's local council and adopted cult policies (are you ready for Sharia law?), igniting fury in the Antelope residents.”
The evil madness of the Rajneesh community culminated in 1984 when the cult hatched a plan to win the November 1984 town council elections. They wanted to eliminate Antelope residents' anti-cult dissent.
Subversive cult tactics included busing in thousands homeless people from NYC, Phoenix, and San Diego to register to vote to insure a Rajneesh majority. (As practiced in Minnesota and Michigan to get Muslims elected?) Antelope County authorities sniffed out the plan and refused to register the vagrants.
Then came a vicious bioterror attack that scarred the city. The evil cult members put salmonella in the salad bars of 10 restaurants in an effort strike sickness and fear among the residents. A total of 700 people became sick, causing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to come in to stop the damage. The cult's salmonella plot was the largest bioterror attack in the US. The restaurant plot was a test run for the real plan of poisoning the city’s water supply, but the group never carried it out.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL The election came and went, without a single Rajneeshee making it onto the commission.
The cilt leader tried to escape, was pursued by L/E, then ousted for arranging sham marriages.
An alleged freeper told us a few weeks ago that like with the Fraud, we MUST stay quiet about this.
Because it makes them more powerful or something.
Cower in place, the POS “freeper” was essentially telling us.
LOL...That doesn’t make any sense...
Did you note the FReeper’s screen name???
They ought to make a movie about that....
they tell us this is just a once-off isolated incident ..
*Investigators were tipped to the scam after an officer at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spotted something fishy in 2017 and alerted fraud investigators, unraveling a scam that spanned from Texas to Vietnam and involved nearly 50 fake marriages.*
I’m surprised that the officer who alerted fraud investigators wasn’t sent packing for reporting his suspicions.
Sounds like that poster has already given up, doesn’t it???
I’m going to use that “cower in place”.
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