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MEXICANS ARE A CRIME WAVE!
AND THEN WE’RE SUPPOSED TO TURN OVER OUR JOBS TO THEM, PAY FOR THEIR ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING AND WELFARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, AND LET THEM DESTROY OUR COMMUNITIES WITH THEIR RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACY, LOOTING, AND GRAFFITI. .. ALL FOR THAT STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR AND VOTES FOR LA RAZA DEMS!
Manassas man key player in fake-ID card ring
By Dana Hedgpeth, Published: May 6
Illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia knew where to go if they needed a high-quality fake green card or Social Security card: They found Eulalio A. Cruz.
From his Manassas home, Cruz, 33, sent cellphone photos of customers to his computer. He’d add addresses and birth dates, used the right kind of ink, and printed the fakes on card stock with holographic images. Sets of documents went for $120 a pop. He’d use a series of runners to make the exchanges.
Federal immigration officials say that Cruz, who this week pleaded guilty to racketeering in federal court in Richmond, was a key player in one of the largest and most sophisticated document mills they have uncovered. His Manassas operation was part of 19 that ran in 11 states, stretching from Nashville to Providence, R.I., officials said. Each year, the ring produced between 10,000 and 15,000 fake documents. They wired at least $1 million to the bosses in Mexico.
As the federal and state governments continue to crack down on illegal immigration, such document mills are becoming a growing obstacle. Immigrants, seeking to skirt local and national laws, need the documents to work and drive. Cruz’s ring turned to violence, prosecutors said, to protect its turf from rivals, just as drug dealers have done for decades.
Authorities say the ring Cruz worked for was unique. Far more sophisticated and productive than most of the mom and pop shops selling fake documents, it operated under a strict chain of command, covered a large geographic area and produced realistic counterfeits.
“It was very much like a legitimate business,” said James C. Spero, deputy assistant director for the Homeland Security Investigations division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “If you worked hard, you could work your way up higher in the organization.”
Cruz, prosecutors say, reported directly to the “national supervisor” on the U.S. side of the operation: Israel Cruz Millan, who was known by his Spanish nickname “El Muerto,” which means “the dead one.” Millan is awaiting trial.
Based in North Carolina, Millan was part chief operating officer, part enforcer, authorities say. He held regular conference calls and insisted that cell managers submit detailed inventory lists of their ink cartridges, paper and other supplies, prosecutors allege. Managers provided biweekly sales reports. One note from Nashville showed $4,150 in proceeds and $1,684 in expenses.
Each cell’s success depended heavily on runners who sought out customers at grocery stores, laundromats and bars, authorities said. Sometimes they even passed out business cards advertising their services.
Proceeds were divided up. Runners, who were expected to deliver seven to 10 customers a week, typically got a few hundred dollars, attorneys involved in the case said. Managers got a fixed salary of between $300 and $400 a week. Millan took a cut, and the rest of the money went to Mexico.
The cells used code names to hide their activity. Social Security cards, printed in blue ink, were known as “smurfs,” authorities said. “New ones” meant a customer wanted a green card. They called the business cards “18s,” because that’s how many fit on a sheet.
Workers who didn’t follow the boss’s strict protocol or didn’t sell enough fake documents were punished, federal officials said. They were spanked, had their eyebrows shaved or were forced to wear weights.
Stealing from the organization was the “ultimate no-no,” one prosecutor said.
In October, Millan hosted a conference call with managers from across the country, according to court papers. He told them that one worker had pocketed the proceeds from selling fake Social Security cards. Millan beat the man so the group could hear his screams, authorities said.
“The point was to say, ‘I’m in charge. Nobody steals from me and this organization, or this is what will happen to you,’ ” said Neil H. MacBride, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, whose office is prosecuting the case.
The group also turned to violence to protect its turf.
In 2009, members of the ring posed as customers buying fake identification cards from competitors and arranged to meet them at a house in Richmond, according to court papers. They bound the men’s hands, feet and mouth with duct tape and beat them with a bat, authorities say. One of Millan’s crew put the barrel of a gun in one man’s mouth and warned him to stay out of their selling area.
In Little Rock, authorities said, a competitor was left for dead after a group working for Millan lured the man and one of his partners to an abandoned trailer, where they were attacked and beaten.
“They resorted to brutal, ruthless violence to support the criminal enterprise,” MacBride said.
Federal agents said they received a tip about Millan’s document ring and moved in in November in an effort involving about 250 officers in nearly a dozen states.
In all, 27 people were arrested on a range of charges including making and selling false documents, gun possession, racketeering, kidnapping, and, in one case, murder. Sixteen people, including Cruz, pleaded guilty in connection with the ring. Two defendants are fugitives in Mexico.
Millan is expected to go on trial later this year.
In Cruz’s Manassas home, authorities found more than 100 fraudulent documents as well as printing equipment, card stock with holographic images and “18s.”
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THERE ARE ONLY 8 STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE MORE THAN HALF THE JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS! IT ALSO HAS THE LARGEST MEX GANG MURDER RATE AND A TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE MORE THAN $2 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!
VIVA LA RAZA?
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http://www.wehirealiens.com/browse/index.asp
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“At the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
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http://www.FAIRUS.org
May 03, 2011
Taxpayers pay ACLU $300,000 to Defend Identity Thieves - Story of a Structural Problem
Fee shifting laws continue to allow the ACLU to force taxpayers to pay for its frivolous lawsuits designed to thwart immigration enforcement and encourage illegal immigration - often at the expense of the people's interest. What just happened in Weld County, Colorado is a case study. Identity theft is a huge problem, costing individuals in the U.S. $17 billion in 2010, according to one Department of Justice report. While a lot of identity theft is done for profit, some is done to gain employment. And illegal immigrants steal the identities of Americans every year. Enforcement authorities are right to stop it, but at the first whiff of interior immigration-related law enforcement, the ACLU springs into action - and we taxpayers pay them to do it.
Two years ago, Weld County, Colorado, enforcement authorities sought to stop identity theft through "Operation Numbers Game," which targeted tax preparers in an effort to find illegal aliens using the ID's and Social Security Numbers of citizens. "In that October 2008 raid, Weld sheriff's deputies found 1,338 suspects after seizing roughly 5,000 tax returns from Amalia's Translation and Tax Service in Greeley in a search for illegal immigrants committing identity theft. Weld District Court Judge Marcelo Kopcow signed off on the search warrant," notes the Greeley Tribune.
The legality of this practice was immediately attacked, even though it's clearly in the public interest: "'Law enforcement gets criticized a lot for being reactive,' [Weld Sheriff John] Cooke said, 'and we were being proactive trying to stop the ID theft and impersonation cases, and we got shot down . . . Back when all this started happening, even after we got shot down by a local judge, the support from the community has been very good."
That didn't stop the grifters at the ACLU from suing the county, even though the issue was already in litigation based upon fourth amendment questions raised by some defendants. In other words, the ACLU just filed the second suit to grab attorney's fees. The Colorado Supreme Court split 4-3 against allowing the evidence from the searches to be used, although there are legitimate questions here regarding who's privacy interests are being protected and why. Weld District Attorney Ken Buck wound up settling the ACLU suit with taxpayer funds for $300,000 in attorney's fees: Buck said the $300,000 would go to fund the ACLU's legal attack machine, and not to any individuals affected. "It all goes to attorneys that ended up filing a lawsuit."
This example is just the tip of the iceberg, and the lesson here is clear: taxpayers are being bilked millions of dollars to pay the ACLU to stop immigration enforcement - which in turn winds up costing Americans billions. Counties usually settle these cases rather than take a change trying to defend against the scattershot claims mounted by the ACLU: only one claim has to stick - no matter how tenuous - and the taxpayers must pay all legal fees in this on-going scam against the public interest. The only question is why is it allowed to continue? If the ACLU wants to promote illegal immigration, that's their business: do we have to all pay for it? -- Dan Stein
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
An illegal immigration link to identity theft
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A massive sweep at Swift meat-processing plants this week could lead officials to 'document rings.'
By Faye Bowers
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
PHOENIX
The latest roundup of illegal immigrants caught working in the US with fraudulent identifications - the largest single such work-site action ever - raises new questions about a link between illegal immigration and the growing problem of identity theft.
Federal raids Tuesday at six meat-processing plants owned by Swift & Co. in six states resulted in the arrests of 1,282 people for immigration violation - with 65 also charged with identify theft or other criminal charges.
The investigation is continuing, say officials with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the hope that some of the newly arrested workers will lead law officers to "document rings" that provided the stolen identities. The 10-month operation began in February, when ICE learned that "large numbers" of undocumented immigrants might be using Social Security numbers assigned to US citizens.
"We believe that the genuine identities of possibly hundreds of US citizens are being stolen or hijacked by criminal organizations and sold to illegal aliens in order to gain unlawful employment in this country," said Julie Myers, ICE assistant secretary. She called it "a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration."
The fraudulent document business has long been a thorn in the side of immigration officials, making it hard for them to crack down on companies for knowingly hiring illegal workers. Indeed, even as ICE agents conducted Tuesday's raids at the Swift plants, a joint task force in Arizona - made up of state, federal, and local law- enforcement officials - was arresting 12 suspects and seized numerous fake drivers' licenses, resident alien cards, Social Security cards, and vehicle titles.
Metropolitan Phoenix, a major immigrant-smuggling hub, has become a place where the false ID business is thriving, law-enforcement officers say. They estimate that 1,000 to 1,500 "coyotes," or smugglers, stash thousands of undocumented immigrants in drop houses throughout the valley, where they wait until false identification and transportation can be arranged to places as far away as Seattle and Miami.
"I would say that 90 percent of the transactions dealing with the sale of human cargo, those smuggled across the [Arizona] border, occur right here," Angel Rascon-Rubio, an ICE special agent, testified at a federal court hearing last year.
The Phoenix area is ideal for smugglers, officials say, because it is fairly easy to reach from Mexico but far enough from the border to avoid border patrol enforcement. It has broad access to the rest of the country via air and car. Moreover, the large Hispanic neighborhoods provide cover for drop houses and new immigrants.
On one of Phoenix's quiet residential streets lined with stucco tract homes live two men who came to the US illegally but gained legal status - along with some 3 million others - under the federal 1986 amnesty program. David and Raul, who will give only first names, are in the business of helping newly arrived illegal immigrants acquire fake documents.
They are not part of an organized crime family, they say - just part of a network of established immigrants who help others attain what they've achieved. They are, in effect, the go-betweens from those who bring the immigrants and those who make the fake ID papers - a service they say they provide for free.
"A coyote will call and say, 'Does your boss need more workers?' or 'Can you help get this person some papers?' " says David, whose main job is as a landscaper. "It's easy. I'll have a number for a [document] guy and call him. We'll meet at the major intersection out here, say, in half an hour. I give him $50 or $100, whatever he's asking, a photo of the person, and a name," he adds. "About 45 minutes later, he'll call me to come meet him on the same corner with the papers - a Social Security card and a green card."
If that won't work, David adds, he drives to the nearest Food City, a chain that specializes in Hispanic goods. There, he says, he just asks around. "There are even guys there who'll hand you business cards - they're in the business of providing fake documents."
Raul, who works in construction, says it's not uncommon to get a call from a coyote in the morning and, by afternoon, have jobs and fake documents for the newly arrived illegals. The two won't tell how many illegal immigrants they help, but say they get called at least weekly.
All of the arrests at the Swift plants Tuesday targeted illegal immigrants who held actual - not fake - Social Security numbers. Many businesses that make use of immigrant labor participate in a national test program for employers called Basic Pilot, an online system to verify employees' Social Security numbers.
But the fake-documents manufacturers are wise to this, say David and Raul. In Arizona, they assign Social Security numbers that begin with 601 - numbers the government apparently assigns people from Arizona. Employers then don't readily recognize a fake document, and, the men say, it takes at least a year for the government to recognize a duplicate number. That means the illegal immigrant can work in the US for up to a year before being sent home.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano set up an Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force in July 2005 as part of a crackdown on crime related to illegal immigration. Since then, the task force has focused in part on fraudulent documents. In doing so, it has issued more than 100 search warrants resulting in 178 defendants charged with 1,400 crimes, says Leesa Morrison, director of the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.
"Most astounding," adds Ms. Morrison, "is that in this short period our undercover agents have purchased over 1,000 fraudulent immigration documents. What's frightening is that [they] are able to purchase a three-pack - a driver's license, a Social Security card, and a permanent-resident card - for about $160 on the street."
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Crossing the ID border
The Monitor's View
Americans learned last week they can no longer look the other way when someone else hires an illegal worker. A federal raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in the US nabbed more than 1,250 "undocumented" migrants - and dozens were charged with using the IDs of real people, perhaps even of children.
The usual practice for many of the estimated 12 million illegal migrants living in the US has been to buy fake IDs with made-up numbers and names. But organized rings in at least 10 cities now sell authentic-looking Social Security cards and some 26 other types of IDs with real names.
These IDs make it even more difficult for employers to reject illegal workers - if employers even bother to check. Such forgery has reached an "epidemic," say federal officials, with illegal migrants and their handlers now violating both the privacy rights and economic rights of innocent Americans.
In one case, a man named Jason Smith found he owed $12,000 in back taxes because an illegal immigrant used his Social Security number to work at a chicken plant for three years.
To avoid detection, fake-ID rings often use a child's identity. Usually, only when the children reach 18 would they find out they have a record of bad credit or other financial complication. One Mexico-based ring's reach is so "breathtaking," a federal judge stated in one case, that it hits "at the heart of the sovereignty of the United States."
Most identity theft is done to steal money, not work in someone's name. But with about 1 in 30 Americans now having their financial identities stolen each year, and with illegal migrants making up nearly 1 in 20 workers, a dangerous link has been made between two massive violations of law. Government is cracking down on ID theft, but both states and Congress have only begun to come to grips with illegal migration - despite the threat of terrorists using fake IDs to hide in the US.
A federal system that allows employers to check Social Security IDs is flawed because it cannot detect cases where migrants use legitimate names and numbers. (Swift & Co. uses the system, but only a fraction of companies do.)
Even if this system is improved, ID thieves may find new ways around it. And expanding a guest-worker program for Mexicans may only be compromised by other ways of forging documents; in addition, that program may never be large enough to curb the flow of illegal migration.
Another offered solution - "earned amnesty" - would be difficult if illegals simply buy fake records to claim they've been in the US for years. And amnesty is hardly a reward to give those who knowingly commit the felony of identity theft.
Congress recently boosted border enforcement and raised fines on employers who hire illegals. Both measures are good first steps and need to be pursued effectively for years. Companies need to raise wages high enough to attract legal workers, while law enforcement needs to show a consistent record of cracking down on employers who knowingly hire illegals.
No one's true identity can ever be stolen. But Americans need to know that both their financial and border security are not at risk.
The fake ID business: some previous busts … WHERE THERE’S A MEXICAN, THERE’S A MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
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April 2005: In Florida, immigration agents arrested 52, including several state Department of Motor Vehicles officials, alleged to be part of a scheme to make and sell fake driver's licenses and hazmat licenses to more than 2,000 illegal immigrants. The same month, other sweeps revealed fraudulent license schemes in Michigan and Maryland.
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May 2005: In Mississippi, Cedric Carpenter and Lamont Ranson pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell fake documents to members of Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based Islamist terrorist group.
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February 2006: A lieutenant in the Mexican-based Castorena family organization, a fraudulent document outfit that controls cells in 33 states, was sentenced in Denver to 11 years in prison. More than 50 members of this international counterfeit operation have been prosecuted in Denver alone. Its leader, Pedro Castorena-Ibarra, was arrested in June by Mexican officers and is awaiting extradition to the US.
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March 2006: Agents busted seven counterfeit-document labs in Los Angeles and charged 11 people with supplying fraudulent immigration and identity documents.
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June 2006: In Boston, immigration agents arrested nine people accused of running a phony document ring. They seized document-forging tools and six computers at five homes. The sweeps led to the arrests of 13 undocumented Brazilian and Guatemalan nationals.
Sources: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Associated Press
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