Immigration Fraud Ring Exposed

[waverider 0]

I heard this on the TV this morning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...=emailarticlepg

In summary, immigrants were paying up to $6000 to marry a U.S. citizen in order to get a visa. As if we don't have enough to deal with trying to do everything to the letter of the law, now we have some morons that are making it harder to be with our loved ones.

[Savanphil 3]

I heard this on the TV this morning:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...=emailarticlepg

In summary, immigrants were paying up to $6000 to marry a U.S. citizen in order to get a visa. As if we don't have enough to deal with trying to do everything to the letter of the law, now we have some morons that are making it harder to be with our loved ones.

Stuff like this really pis$es me off. People are really selfish, they don't consider that the honest law abiders, will have to suffer the consequences of their actions.

[Nessa 23]

Stuff like this really pis$es me off. People are really selfish, they don't consider that the honest law abiders, will have to suffer the consequences of their actions.

ditto

[YuAndDan 153]

Not new only last week they busted a large ring of Vietnamese doing the same thing in Utah.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70454

Stuff like this just hurts everyone!

[iceyspots 0]

That's terrible. I'm glad they got found though..

[vartan 0]

yeah I work with a guy that was unaware of my situation as was talking about the idea of being paid to get someone a green card.. you know I went off and said I would not allow it and would speak my mind.. hahah their outlook changed quickly.

[Mrs. Palmer 5]

I was listening to this on the news this morning...I can't believe some people...it will just put all of us under SO MUCH MORE scrutiny than b4...and living in the Washington, DC area doesn't help much either...I just hope that all goes well with us whose intentions are true!

[Ana and Dan 0]

The immigrants, mostly from Western Africa, would pay as much as $6,000 to be introduced to their "spouse," usually on the day of the marriage.

I wonder how they were getting away with it though. They must have had a lot of forged documentation and pictures. Unless they used the old "I can't meet him/her in person do to religous reasons" excuse.

Very sad either way and probably means more scrutiny for the rest of us.

[Andreia and Chris 0]

Someone in government is going to go overboard in reacting to this.

[sercontigo 1]

[That is how I feel too, like we are actually suffering and waiting so long and are under so much scrutiny because of people like this. I am angry at the US Citizens... as if a few thousand bucks is worth the jail time! And no one should know better than a US Citizen what marriage actually means as far as the law is concerned. Why would you marry someone you don't know? You marry their problems, their debt and their headaches! No amount of money will make me even consider being a part of some illegal's issues. Anyone that desperate to get here, don't belong here IMHO!

Truth is, I get even more livid when I constantly have to defend my love for my fiance because so many other West Africans have committed so much fraud. I will be the first to admit, I work for a bank and have actually been assigned to fraudulent issues coming straight out of West Africa! NOBODY IS AN ANGEL...EVERY RACE, CREED, COUNTRY HAS ITS GREEDY, SELFISH, IDIOTS!

So, what did I do? I pray really hard and I used my brain. I did extra research when coming to know him, his family and his background. That's all you can do is be honest and careful.

That's my 42 cents.

[rl2009 0]

I heard about this ####### too. Here we are just trying to be with our loved ones and people are doing this. I jsut want my Ro and Lais. People will do anything for money and most of the time it screws up everyone that is doing the right things. Problem is they don't care and never do what is right to begin with. I may not have a lot of money or a lot of things, but I have love and respect for my fellow man/woman.