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PJ Media was on this story last October. David Steinberg broke the story here alleging that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother and the press would not cover it. Now they will have no choice. The president went nuclear on Omar today and dropped the mother of all bombs on live television that will have CNN crying "racist" from now until the end of time. But will they report that a sitting congresswoman likely married her own brother? Is @realDonaldTrump citing a conspiracy theory? Actually, there is now a MOUNTAIN of evidence that Ilhan Omar...

The brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Tuesday in an immigration fraud case stemming from the probe into the killings. Syed Raheel Farook entered the plea in federal court in Riverside to one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud, the U.S. attorney’s office said. […] Syed Raheel Farook, his wife and Russian sister-in-law were accused last year of conspiring to arrange a fraudulent marriage between the sister-in-law and Enrique Marquez Jr., who is charged with plotting with Syed Rizwan Farook to carry out earlier attacks and with supplying guns used in...

SNIPPET: "Hussein “Sam” Nazzal, 59, was sentenced to 33 months by U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani on Friday. Nazzal formerly owned Shish Village restaurant and G&S Development, a real estate company, both of which were in Dearborn. He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to defraud the United States. Federal officials also got two criminal convictions of those involved in the fraud, and two others have been deported from the United States to Lebanon."

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0903/090306cincinatti.htm 10 indicted in multi-state marriage fraud scheme Group arranged multiple sham marriages across the nation CINCINNATI - Ten individuals involved in a multi-state marriage fraud conspiracy were indicted today in federal court following an intensive and far-reaching investigation by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Eight individuals were arrested yesterday by ICE agents and two individuals are still at large and being sought. "This type of crime impacts the integrity of our nation's immigration system from both the perspective of security and fairness," said Brian Moskowitz, special agent-in-charge (SAC) of...

Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for. — W.C. Fields After September 11th, the existential question of “Why do they [foreigners] hate us?” was hotly debated in the American media without any real conclusion ever being reached. This Backgrounder seeks to answer the opposite question: “Why do they love us?” Key Points * Marriage to an American citizen remains the most common path to U.S. residency and/or citizenship for foreign nationals, with more than 2.3 million foreign nationals gaining lawful permanent resident (LPR) status in this manner between 1998 and 2007. * More than 25 percent of all...

I mentioned Samar Spinelli, pictured to the left, last month. She’s the former sister-in-law of national security nightmare Nada Prouty, the illegal alien Lebanese fraudster who recently admitted faking a marriage to gain US citizenship that helped her secure jobs with the FBI and CIA–and also confessed to tapping into government databases for secret information on her sister and brother-in-law, both linked to the Middle East terror group Hezbollah. Spinelli herself has now ‘fessed up. Via Stars and Stripes (hat tip - Dev): A Marine captain assigned to the Okinawa-based 1st Marine Aircraft Wing pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking a...

The feds have busted five members of a sham-wedding ring that paired hundreds of illegal aliens with US citizens - and then orchestrated equally bogus divorces - in an immigration-fraud scheme.........

NORFOLK Federal authorities are investigating a local marriage broker who has been linked to sham nuptials between U.S. citizens and Eastern Europeans seeking a better life here. The broker favored Navy sailors for spouses because of the pay and housing benefits involved. Officials say the sailors' involvement has created a potential national security threat. Prosecutors have charged at least nine individuals in an ongoing investigation into illegal immigrants attempting to obtain citizenship through marriage. Three were in court Monday. Not every case is connected to the broker, who has not yet been publicly identified, but at least four of the...

They didn't hug. They didn't kiss. They didn't even sit together. Many couples going to the Arlington County Courthouse seemed more like strangers than people applying for marriage licenses. A man named Sam often escorted them to the sixth-floor clerk's office. Sometimes, there would be a furtive exchange of money in the elevator. Before long, some of the same people would be back, filing for divorce, their court papers littered with mistakes -- always the same mistakes. "They misspelled 'circuit,' " said David A. Bell, the longtime Circuit Court clerk. "It was obvious something was going on." Bell tipped off...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Eight U.S. sailors at a Florida navy station fraudulently married Polish and Romanian women in order to collect extra housing allowances, according to federal charges filed on Tuesday. Full artical: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-04-11T180752Z_01_N4B269482_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-SAILORS.xml&rpc=22

44 INDICTED IN LANDMARK MARRIAGE FRAUD INVESTIGATION Probe targets Orange County network that arranged sham marriages primarily for Asian aliens SANTA ANA, Calif. - A total of 44 individuals, many of them based in Orange County’s Little Saigon, have been indicted for their roles in an elaborate scheme to obtain fraudulent immigrant visas for hundreds of Chinese and Vietnamese nationals based on sham marriages to U.S. citizens. The 13 separate indictments stem from a three-year, multi-agency investigation known as Operation “Newlywed Game.” The probe, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is believed to be one of the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal authorities arrested 11 people in connection with a sophisticated marriage fraud scheme that targeted Asians seeking U.S. citizenship. The arrests took place Tuesday in Los Angeles and Orange counties and the Bay Area, according to officials who described the operation as one of the biggest of its kind in the country. Chinese and Vietnamese nationals were charged up to $60,000 to marry American citizens to obtain green cards, authorities said. Couples were provided with fake wedding photographs, joint tax returns and even love letters. "Marriage fraud is not a new phenomenon but clearly this scheme...

CHICAGO - A federal grand jury handed down indictments September 13, 2005 that were unsealed yesterday charging 12 defendants for their roles in marriage fraud and alien smuggling schemes in the Chicago and Rockford areas that allegedly recruited and offered U.S citizens up to $10,000 to marry Lithuanian nationals for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining immigration benefits. Today's indictments are the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The defendants were charged in two multi-count indictments that were unsealed today and announced by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. According to...

Another black comedy appeared in theatres across Russia – “Birthday Girl.” The main part is performed by Nicole Kidman – she plays a Russian girl, who meets a young Englishman on the Internet, a bank clerk. The guy invites his Russian virtual love to visit him, but the girl turns out to be a virtual crook. Someone may think that this is another Hollywood fairytale, but the story of the movie has a lot of examples in real life. Russian girls have been attacking foreign men for 15 years already. Marriages between a Russian girl and a foreign successful businessman...