INS Says: "Immigration Fraud Rampant Within US"
klaatu
Sourced from the _Washington Post_, 19 MAY 1997, Page A4, article by
William Branigan, who evidently is one of the few remaining _Post_
reporters with even a smidgen of integrity on immigration-issues
reporting. This comes a day after an article which made the claim that
"immigrants are an economic boon". I believe that the substance of Mr.
Branigan's article will directly refute any and all claims in this prior
article which quoted a study which evidently didn't have access to these
INS documents, some of which contains information that should give grave
pause to any who consider the national-security ramifications of rampant
immigration fraud.
Good news and bad news.
The good news? The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, chaired
by Representative Lamar S. Smith (Republican, Texas) is meeting
tomorrow, 20 MAY 1997. If the rest of this article should strike some
chord of concern, my strong advice is to whip off some e-mail and to
also telephone and send a telegram. Maybe if he thinks that there is
even a modicum of public outrage over the ridiculously high levels of
blatant abuse of systemic weaknesses in internal immigration procedures,
perhaps he'll actually try to get something done about it. Otherwise,
doubtless he'll bow to the forces of political-correctness which have
for nearly twenty years informed and directed a policy of welcoming,
with open arms, over five million illegal immigrants, who are
increasingly alien gangsters, and quite likely many of those alien
gangsters may be to some degree operating as agents of influence for
foreign powers.
Yes, that really was the good news.
Now for the bad news.
Due to the essential redeployment to the borders of the newly-upsized
Immigration and Naturalization Service's Border Patrol, INS offices
internal to the United States have been shortstaffed, all at a time when
new immigration laws have forced massive revisions in procedure, and all
of this at a time when it appears that there will be massive internal
personnel shakeups as a result of the recent discoveries of massive
longterm entrenchment of loophole-riddled internal procedure. One can
only hope that when the heads stop rolling, the greatest attention will
be focussed on placement of effective and trustworthy
personnel-department staffers, who will ideally be diligent in their
selection of a fresh new staff of only the highest caliber of dedication
and resolve. An immense up-sizing in this department is essential (INS
needs 3200 in this department alone by 1999, and I believe this to be an
understimation by an order of magnitude), as is interagency cooperation
between the assorted internal and external intelligence agencies, this
is simply a problem of outrageous and indeed dangerous proportions which
should be addressed at absolutely all levels.
At any rate, there are at present only two-hundred, yes, _200_ INS
agents dedicated to combatting immigration fraud. Don't worry, I am not
"spilling the beans to the whole wide world via the InterNet", the whole
wide world of foreign criminals _already has entrenched systems to take
advantage of this_.
These procedural weaknesses are increasingly used by groups as diverse
and hostile as Russian and Asian organized-crime syndicates, assorted
multinational crime-cartel money-launderers, white-slavers and their
chattel, independent prostitutes, and of course the inevitable low-wage
laborers.
According to sources quoted by the _Post_, the "L-1A" non-immigrant visa
is increasingly used as an entry document, as it is a fast-action visa
generally used to permit entry of foreign-executives of transnational
corporations. However, the "corporate addresses" quite often turn out to
be "dead-drop" P.O. Boxes or other fake addresses of the sort commonly
and traditionally used by spies. Once inside the country, alien
gangsters and other fraudulent foreigners quickly secure forged
documentation (through specialized and, among the aliens, well-known,
"consulting firms") in volume sufficient as to overwhelm the mere 200
fraud-investigation INS bureaucrats. For instance, quoting from the
_Post_ quoting the INS:
"Thousands of Chinese are using the L-1A visa as a means of legalized
smuggling." The _Post_ goes on to say that payments of $50,000 are
typical, such payments going to secure the fraudulent documents which
support the application for L-A1. Often, such persons file for permanent
immigrant status after reaching the US. As an aside, I might well ask,
"what sort of person has $50,000 to spend on forged documentation?" I
might also ask, "If they've got $50,000 dollars to spend just on
paperwork to get here, _why can't they come here legally_?" I suggest
that the answer is this: Clearly this money is derived from ill-gotten
gains, and they must enter fraudulently simply because they are of the
caliber of criminal permanently barred from attempting to even visit the
US, much less immigrate legally. Another possible source of such
illigitimate large cash resources might be foreign militaries,
transnational adventurers, or consortiums of renegade intelligence
personnel. Certainly the level of expertise, and the smoothness of some
of the operations, bespeaks a level of professionalism equivalent to
some of our own special-tactics offices.
In October 1996, the US State Department issued an advisory which
indicated that in Guangzhou Province, 90 percent of the L-1A
applications were "wholly fraudulent".
Alarmingly, in terms of National Security, increasingly abuses of the
L-1A by foreign gangsters tend to cycle around illegal arms imports,
generally of high-quality military weapons. It is believed in many
circles that the persons who recently ran-amok in LA (completely
outgunning the local police, and who were discovered to be in possession
of an arsenal sufficient to militarily-arm an army of a thousand) may
have been associated with a loose-consortium of Russian Mafia and Asian
arms-smugglers, who were almost certainly taking advantage of the L-1A
visas, which are quite commonly issued as an adjunct to "corporate"
oversight of large shipments of materiel.
Over 200 shell companies have been identified, which were set up by
Russian criminal enterprises for the purposes of extortion,
drug-trafficking and arms-smuggling. One can only presume that there may
be any number of as-yet-unidentified shell companies whose purpose is
document fraud, the "great enabler" of all other immigration fraud.
Document fraud is certainly not a new problem. At one time less than two
years ago, "green cards", "resident alien", and Social Security cards
were sold openly on the streets in Washington, DC's Adams-Morgan
neighborhood, with street vendors in pushcarts selling burritos,
empanadas and unidentified-organ-meat kabobs with one hand and
top-quality forged documentation with the other hand. After illegal
aliens used forged documentation obtained form these people to secure
employment with a local company (also immigrant-owned), they were able
to penetrate into top-security areas in a local military base, where
they were resurfacing the helipad where the President's helicopter
lands. Certainly there is no doubt that these were merely poor
immigrants who sought only to make a good living for themselves and send
money back to their poverty-stricken families, but certainly one cannot
discount the daring of those same rebels who so recently held the
Japanese Embassy in Peru. Perhaps if those Peruvian rebels had the same
forgers as these persons, and more ambition, our recent history might
have been a little more exciting, locally. _There is no doubt that
document fraud run-rampant in this country could easily enable such a
terrifying scenario_. In fact, though not of such gradiose scale,
_exactly such a fraud resulted in Mir Aimal Kansi fatally shooting two
CIA employees at that agency's headquarters_.
Now I understand well that it is politically-incorrect to be concerned
about National Security - believe me, here in the People's Republic of
Occupied Montgomery County Maryland (which bellies up to the Nation's
Capital, and which is, according to the US Census [hmm, census fraud?
underestimation?] composed 40% of persons of foreign birth - I am
forcibly informed _every day_ that it is politically-incorrect to
criticise foreigners, to wonder how many of these resident aliens have
entered under forged documentation, how many have secured benefits, or
residency, through immigration fraud based on forged documents? It is
well known that an American citizen can no longer secure a Drivers'
License without a "secure-document" birth certificate, but the last time
I got a Maryland Driver's License, despite being told to get a
"secure-document" birth certificate for my license-renewal, I watched a
foreigner in front of me use an un-notarized _photocopy_ of something
alleged to be a birth certificate, which by the date on it was issued by
the then-Communist government of Nicaragua. Excuse me? An expelled
former-Communist can get a MD-D.L. on the basis of a photocopy and I
have to fly a lawyer to New Mexico and back to get _my_ D.L.? In my
opinion, this is symptomatic of a huge problem.
How huge is this problem?
The INS report cited by the _Post_ states that "the sheer volume of
fraudulent applications related to a _single_ [emphasis mine - klaatu ]
benefit fraud scheme can be enourmous, and the structure of the criminal
conspiracy complex." In one case some 54 persons collected $9 million
submitted around 10,000 completely fraudulent applications for illegal
aliens seeking amnesty. And this is _only one operation_, in one city.
A recent article noted that there are at least five million illegal
immigrants in the US, which interestingly is of about the proportion to
citizens, of the Goths who sacked Rome and brought that Empire to its
doom. And these are just the nice ones who bothered to fill out their
census forms! In a recent ABC special, occasioned by President Clinton's
recent visit to Mexico, rural Mexicans (whose town's economy depended
utterly upon cash brought back from generally-illegal employment in the
US) completely scoffed at the notion that the United States was capable
of securing the borders. If we cannot secure the borders and cannot
police the interior, we might as well simply surrender to Mexico,
clearly their citizens (and those who pass unobstructed through their
territory) can with impunity descend upon us, and indeed as anyone in
southern California can tell you, thay _have_ - In one
nationally-televised ABC interview with rural Mexicans, one man laughed
outright at the notion that the US could control the border or expel
illegals, which coming from a Mexican is an insult as outrageous as
calling someone a cuckold to their face, and attesting to personal
experience. But like a beaten man who publicly wears the horns, it is
clear we can only squirm in embarassment - unless we actually get
serious about addressing this problem. And it is absolutely and
humiliatingly clear, that like a man who wears the horns publicly and
then pretends to hide his shame by saying that "well, my wife is a
liberated lady and I am being politically-correct" - we will only
increasingly become the butt of international contempt and mockery, and
abuse by alien criminals and other foreign adventurers, until we start
taking names and kicking ass.
I personally would be _quite_ happy to see a suspension of _Posse
Comitatus_ insofar as regards application of military-intelligence
resources or intelligence community resources internal to the country,
for the sole purpose of resource-sharing and interagency co-ordination
to uncover international document fraud as applies to illegal
immigration - as it is, every single spy and terrorist in the world can
waltz right into the US, completely hidden as a drop in the flood of
scornful illegals. Open borders and a complete lack of internal
fraud-investigation capability is a recipe for disaster.
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Usually I work within the system when it's not trying to get me killed.
Which of late, as near as I can tell, it is.
klaatu
anonymous wrote:
>
> XdeNofeaArchive:tedyes
>
> On Mon, 19 May 1997 20:06:44 -0400, Dan <dan...@his.com> wrote:
>
> I
> >suspect that the
> >way to do that is with strict controls at those points at which people
> >interact
> >with certain infrastructures in our society, e.g., the medical care
> >system, the judicial system, the welfare system, etc. And the way to do
> >this efficiently is through a
> >public key encryption system with digital signatures. And this is
> >coming; the question is whether it'll be here before here is destroyed.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Typical ill-thought-out views of an ill-educated conservative.
Actually, it's a step in the right direction but of course it goes
nowhere near far enough. He's right though, clearly there are way too
many people with read-write access to records which are none of their
business - extremely solid encryption of all records is essential
particularly as regards this country's public-service systems' complete
vulnerability to the "spoofing" or disinformaitonal type of information
warfare, where well-meaning civil servants could quite-conceivably be
provided with altered or bogus information which would turn them against
the innocents they are supposed to protect.
>
> What Dan's talking about is a high-tech version of the national
> identity card, an idea that made conservatives scream bloody murder
> (and falsely don civil libertarian clothing) a few years back when it
> looked like Clinton's health care plan might involve similar uses of
> technology.
Actually, I don't believe that he was screaming bloody murder over
anything like _similar_ uses of technology - _au contraire_! Some of the
Clintonista proposals would allow almost universal read-write access to
extremely sensitive and private records, for almost _anyone_ other than
the subject of those records.
Dan's proposal, on the other hand, would ensure that only those who need
to know could have access to vital personal information. For instance,
the latest fiasco involving the Social Security Administration's
web-page access to earnings-statements depended for security on
information accessible to absolutely all credit companies and to anyone
with whom they share information, which if the fees are paid is just
about anyone. Instead, the proper procedure would be to have a
publicly-mounted and certified digital RSA public key known to belong
only to one particular individual, who would forward that key to SSA,
who would then encrypt that information with that key, and send it to
the individual, with a digital signature. This would prevent
packetsniffing and other interception modes. As more and more commerce
and particularly sensitive law-enforcement or intelligence information
goes online, this will become increasingly important. As online
internetted TCP/IP modes are increasingly transferred to SUPERNet or
other wireless systems, particularly for LE purposes, high-quality
encryption becomes even more essential.
While I am rather loathe to give up my police scanner due to increasing
uselessness due to increasing encryption, I'll gladly sacrifice my
ability to listen to cops on patrol so long as I am convinced that
organized criminals are losing _their_ ability to monitor cops on
patrol.
>
> Of course, Dan is the same guy who a month or so back expressed the
> wish that homeless activists would disappear, which seems oddly
> counter to stated conservative doctrine that we need more voluntarism.
> It makes more sense when you realize that many conservatives wish
> homeless folk would starve to death so that they wouldn't have daily
> reminders on their way to work that the market doesn't solve all
> social problems.
And communism (like you had beck in Nicaragua) _will_ solve
homelessness? Pfaugh, all it does is spread the povery around and when
it collapses, _everyone_ winds up homeless. Look at the former USSR, for
godz-sake.
Actually, the way to get homelessness-activists to disappear is to get
rid of homelessness. I continue to propose that our present bull-market
be conditioned to save money as a hedge against an economic downturn,
and that some of hte money saved be used to spawn programs that will
aggressively train, hire and house persons who are presently homeless,
but who could be gainfully employed.
>
> Why are conservatives so hypocritical? it's because conservatives
> are people without faith. The driving force of conservatism is fear
> and a sense of weakness. Conservatives have no faith in their
> country. That's why history shows conservatives as always having
> obsessive fears of blacks, communists, gays, women, and immigrants.
> At one point or other in history, conservatives have feared that one
> or other of these groups were poised to destroy America, despite the
> fact that America is not easily destroyed, and that none of these
> groups ever posed a threat.
Actually Communism was indeed an immense threat, and the reasoning
behind it, flawed as it is just like yours, still is, like your
reasoning, convincing enough to the easily-led who wish to believe
themselves to be intellectual sophisticates.
I must also take issue with your ridiculous linkage between
Conservatism, and Reactionaries. Conservatives live to preserve all of
the things that made this country great, which is one reason why true
Conservatives are usually also Civil Libertarians except in times of
pressing national needs (such as wars, invasions, coup attempts, etc.).
Our Civil Liberties proceed, after all, from the Constitution, which
after all is a central article of faith for the True Conservative.
Right now, BTW, illegal immigrants, particularly the increasing numbers
of criminal aliens, are indeed a threat. America's perceived inability
to close our borders to illegals and to expel foreign troublemakers and
criminals reduces us to the stature of a bloated beached whale that can
neither swim, walk, nor clean itself of lice. The world scoffs at us and
should we remain a vast beached whale shuddering under its own weight
and inertia, the rest of the world may well decide that it's time to
carve up some blubber. In this regard, illegal immigrants and in
particular alien criminals are a threat to America, because they cause
to world to lose respect for us.
>
> What greater proof that conservatives have no faith in America that
> two conservative presidents, George Bush and Ronald Reagan, actively
> sought to debase the First Amendment because they believed that
> flag-burning posed a mortal threat to the republic?
>
> Conservatives have no faith in the strength of our civil institutions,
> which is why they paranoically insist that they're only safe when
> armed to the teeth, even though it's proven that widespread armaments
> have made this the most violent society without an active war in
> modern history.
We also haven't been invaded.
And considering that, as you say, two recent presidents sought to sully
the Constitution's First Amendment with that ban on flag-burning...
perhaps our wish to ensure the sanctity of the Second Amendment is no
paranoia, but simply our little way of ensuring that when we start
losing rights, we don't lose them without a way to say, this far you go
and no further.
>
> Conservatives have no faith in humanity, which is why they insist that
> the only solution to crime are ever-harsher penalties and an
> ever-expanding death penalty. This even though we have the highest
> incarceration rate of any democratic country AND at the same time the
> highest crime rate.
And outside of those two things, the greatest freedom. Freedom, sad but
true, includes the freedom of excess. Sometimes excess leads to crime
and incarceration.
Your approach, I presume, would be cradle to grave indoctrination
against doing anything not prescribed by the Party Apparatchiks? The
Soviet Union had almost no crime. But it was not a free country.
>
> Conservatives don't even have faith in their God.
Look, dimbulb. I am conservative as hell and I have to ask you, "what
god?" Yours, mine or his over there?
> That's why the
> religious right feels the need to proclaim its piety at every turn,
> and why they feel it necessary to proclaim that America is a Christian
> nation, even though the Founding Fathers were clear that they wanted
> no part of Church in government.
They were also all Christians, but they were damned if they were going
to have the Church telling then what to do! They knew all too well that
all too often the Church is less a hotline to the Almighty than it is a
rival political machine, or in the worst cases a government within a
government, which is one of the things they fought against.
> Conservatives don't believe their
> God listens, unless they shout out their prayers so loud that they
> shove them down everybody elses throats.
Again, you confuse Conservatives with Zealots.
>
> That is what conservatism is all about. Conservatives are small,
> bitter, fear driven people, living in gated communities and never
> sleeping with a restful conscience.
You're pretty small, bitter and fear-driven too, aren't you? So why
don't you go back to whatever formerly-Communist regime from which you
hail and preach this at them? I bet they'll quickly have you sleeping in
a gated community pretty soon, probably their version of Leavenworth.
klaatu
A. Nonamus wrote:
>
> In article <3380A5F5...@clark.net>, klaatu <kla...@clark.net> wrote:
> >- as it is, every single spy and terrorist in the world can
> >waltz right into the US, completely hidden as a drop in the flood of
> >scornful illegals. Open borders and a complete lack of internal
> >fraud-investigation capability is a recipe for disaster.
>
> And then the Democrats start running for the White House again,
> and they'll need every illegial alien they can register.
Hmmm, I can see the contest now -
Al Gore and the Illegal Aliens
vs.
General (Ret.) Colin Powell and Truth, Justice and the American Way.
(now there's a man that anyone can vote for, child of immigrants,
started at the bottom and rose to the top. how could anyone vote against
him? even any illegal aliens that the democratic machines pumped through
the system would probably vote for him...)
>
> Anon.
David Nixon
On 21 May 1997 00:32:27 GMT, an...@escom.com (A. Nonamus) wrote:
>In article <3380A5F5...@clark.net>, klaatu <kla...@clark.net> wrote:
>>- as it is, every single spy and terrorist in the world can
>>waltz right into the US, completely hidden as a drop in the flood of
>>scornful illegals. Open borders and a complete lack of internal
>>fraud-investigation capability is a recipe for disaster.
>
>Well, we've got about 2 years here to get things under control.
>And then the Democrats start running for the White House again,
>and they'll need every illegial alien they can register.
>
>Anon.
>
You might be right, but lets be fair here. The Republicans have never
done anything wrong, right?
Actually, I Have A Dream. I have a dream of all illegal immigrants
given the boot. I have a dream where only legal immigrants are the
only immigrants in this nations (see New Zealand) abound in this fine
nation. I have a dream of DC no longer being the second largest mecca
for illegal immigrants (Klaatu really like that one). I have a dream
of a lower than the national average for murder rate in DC. I have a
dream of DC lowering its commercial taxes (9.50 vs. national average
of 5.69) to induce business growth. I have a dream of our nations
capitol being a jewel of admiration, instead of the dung pile of
scorn. I have a dream....
David Nixon
DC - No matter what other nations may say about the United States,
immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
klaatu
David Nixon wrote:
>
> On 25 May 1997 16:00:29 GMT, HuckleBerry Hound <sk...@pop.erols.com> wrote:
>
> >I was reading from a very reliable source that many top level govt
> >officials were and still are taking large monetary bribes to overlook the
> >illegal immigration problem. Many of the bribes come from large companies
> >that use illegal immigrants in the labor work force. Of course the bottom
> >line is larger profits for companies who pay low wages to illegal
> >immigrants.
>
> That wouldn't surprise me at all, nothing like a disposable workforce.
They're not disposable!
You couldn't get rid of a dozen mojados with a regiment of marines with
electric pitchforks with radio-thallium tips.
They're much stronger and smarter than we are (proof of this can be seen
at any crossing point, they shoot at us and carry automatic weapons at
illegal crossings, and our _military_ is not allowed to defend
themselves from an illegal invasion); they're used to maintaining
discipline under hostile and repressive regimes (our fault, we're stupid
silly white people who believe in foolish exploitable delusions like
"civil rights" <sound of laughter>) and they are completely
inexpendable, they've forced entire industries to depend on them,
industries which cannot possibly remian competitive unless Americans are
willing to work for the wages paid to illegals, or are willing to pay
more for the products of illegal-alien-coopted industries.
In other words, you cannot get rid of them.
>
> David Nixon
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On Fri, 30 May 1997 22:51:18 -0400, klaatu <kla...@clark.net> wrote:
>David Nixon wrote:
>>
>> On 25 May 1997 16:00:29 GMT, HuckleBerry Hound <sk...@pop.erols.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I was reading from a very reliable source that many top level govt
>> >officials were and still are taking large monetary bribes to overlook the
>> >illegal immigration problem. Many of the bribes come from large companies
>> >that use illegal immigrants in the labor work force. Of course the bottom
>> >line is larger profits for companies who pay low wages to illegal
>> >immigrants.
>>
>> That wouldn't surprise me at all, nothing like a disposable workforce.
>
>They're not disposable!
>
>You couldn't get rid of a dozen mojados with a regiment of marines with
>electric pitchforks with radio-thallium tips.
Why would you want to get rid of mailing lists? ;>
What I ment by disposable is that at the end of the week (payday) you
just call in the INS and have your work force deported. Monday you go
down and pick a new work force up off a corner and do the same at the
end of that week. You have a highly disposable work force that you
don't have to pay.
David Nixon
DC - "A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are
reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients.
Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and
people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to
any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that
the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It
also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a
large club near your person at all times."
-- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII