Report: ICE Targeting Fraudulent Asylees for Deportation
Tue, Oct 2nd 2018 @ 11:25 am EDT
National Public Radio (NPR) reports the Trump Administration is considering stripping asylum status from those who won it fraudulently. During a 2012 investigation into New York asylum mills, federal prosecutors arrested 30 immigration lawyers, paralegals and interpreters who had enabled asylum-seekers to acquire benefits fraudulently. The 3,500 asylees they helped, and possibly more than 10,000 family members who obtained “derivative asylum status,†could be deported if officials find fraud occurred.
In 2010, DHS started an investigation dubbed Operation Fiction Writer in Manhattan’s Chinatown when officials realized a large number of Chinese nationals were seeking and obtaining asylum. One of the employees caught in the investigation chose to cooperate with officials to avoid prosecution. He told officials his law firm gave asylum-seekers “boilerplate†persecution stories, coached them to give asylum officers false details, and developed documents to support their fraudulent asylum claims.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/report-ice-targeting-fraudulent-asylees-deportation
