Category: Immigration fraud

Immigration Appeals Board will re-open Uncle Omar’s deportation case

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Barack Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, has been in the US illegally for decades.  In ‘Dreams from my Father,’ Obama claimed that no one in the family knew what happened to the ‘long-lost’ uncle, brother to Barack Obama Senior who was booted out of Harvard (and deported) for drinking and philandering.  When Barack, the senior, departed for Kenya without his doctorate degree, he left behind his kid brother who had just begun high school in Boston at about that time.

Now we are told, in a rare move, his deportation case will be re-visited.  Is anyone surprised?

From CNS News:

(CNSNews.com) — The U.S Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to reopen the immigration case of Onyango Obama, delaying the deportation of the 68-year old Kenyan who violated an order to leave the United States in 1992.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed to CNSNews.com on Tuesday that Obama, who is the president’s uncle, was granted a rehearing last week and his case is being re-opened.

“The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) remanded the case back to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) for reconsideration. It is inappropriate for ICE to offer any further comment on this case,” Brian P. Hale, ICE assistant director for public affairs, said in a statement to CNSNews.com.

Any move to reconsider a case is unusual says immigration law expert.

In 1989, an immigration judge ordered Obama, who has been in the U.S. since 1963, to be deported. He appealed and the appeal was dismissed in 1992.

Crystal Williams, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said any move to reconsider a case is unusual when there is already an order for removal.

“It isn’t common for the Board to reopen a case when there is an outstanding order of removal, as there is here, particularly with a later DUI arrest.  It happens, but not that often,” Williams said in a statement to CNSNews.com.

CNSNews.com reported in July that an ICE internal e-mail obtained by the legal watchdog Judicial Watch had confirmed that ICE had granted Obama a stay of deportation “to seek reopening of his deportation proceedings.”

For curious readers, you should know that his DUI arrest in August 2011 was not the first time he re-appeared since Obama declared him missing in ‘Dreams…’  In fact, author Sally Jacobs told us all about him in her book (which I highly recommend!) on the short and troubled life of Barack Hussein Obama, the senior, here.

Iraqi refugee food stamp fraudster fugitive caught in Belize

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Bet you can’t say that title five times (fast!)!

While we are on the subject of Iraqi refugee crimes (here and here) thought maybe this would be a good time to fill you in on an old story.

We first told you about Khaffak Ansari here in May.  The former Iraqi refugee who came to the US as a teen escaping, what else! Saddam Hussein, was found guilty of trafficking in food stamps to the tune of $2.5 – $3 million dollars (estimates vary, but that is your money!).  His defense in court was that stress made him do it.

And, I guess you could say he, like the Arizona Iraqi bomber, didn’t appreciate the good life we gave him.

Well, now we know that he skipped the country before he could get his light 41-month prison sentence started.

We got him back though—after he was in deep trouble in Belize for allegedly holding a woman captive against her will.  LOL! I bet he figured he would be better off extradited to the US to serve time for his scamming the taxpayer then to face whatever Belize would do to him.  Yippee!  We get him back.

Anyway, here is the latest story from the Twincities Pioneer Press ( I’m posting more than I usually do from an article like this one because I’ve seen these stories very quickly be “no longer available”):

A convicted food stamp fraudster who skipped a prison date and fled to Belize pleaded guilty to the new charge arising from his getaway.

In accepting Khaffak Ansari’s guilty plea Thursday, Nov. 29, Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson of St. Paul had federal marshals keep him in custody to make sure he gets to prison this time.

Ansari, 46, of Arden Hills, must now serve a year and a day in addition to the 41-month federal term he got in a $2.5 million food stamp fraud scheme he ran while he owned Stryker Market on St. Paul’s West Side.

When Magnuson sentenced Ansari in the fraud case in May, he told him he could remain free and surrender to prison officials June 11. The arrangement is not unusual in cases involving nonviolent federal offenders.

Ansari never showed. His whereabouts were a mystery until Sept. 6, when he got into trouble with police in San Pedro, Belize; a woman who worked at a club he was managing accused him of holding her against her will.

Instead of facing charges in the Central American country, Ansari told police there he was wanted in the U.S.

He was returned to Minnesota, where he faced a new charge of “failure to appear.”

So, how did he get out of the country in the first place? He lied!  He didn’t turn his passport in as the judge instructed:

It appears Ansari could leave the U.S. because he ignored a judge’s May 2011 order to turn over his passport, and officials with U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services never followed up.

U.S. Magistrate Jeanne Graham had ordered Ansari to surrender his passport as a condition of pre-trial release in the fraud case. He had the passport when arrested in Belize.

Jeanne Cooney, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, said Ansari had told Graham that he couldn’t find his passport.

“The court ordered him to keep looking and that as soon as he found it, to surrender it,” Cooney said. “At some point, he came across it or had it all along — I don’t know the particulars — but at some point he got it and chose not to surrender it to the courts. Instead, he took off.”

Ansari’s lawyers blamed the loss of the passport on federal agents!

In a May 5, 2011, court filing, Ansari’s attorney, Daniel Schermer, said the passport was last seen when federal agents searched Ansari’s home the previous September.

“The defendant says that he has not seen his passport since the search and believes it was seized,” Schermer wrote.

In the same document, the lawyer wrote, “The government’s attempt to incarcerate a
non-dangerous, non-fugitive solely on the hypothesis that he may flee to an unidentified country at some point in the unknown future is improper…”

By the way, this demonstrates one of the huge cultural differences we have with Middle Easterners and African Muslims—they are excellent liars, some of the best in the world, and his attorney apparently fell for it.

Speaking of lies, I suspect that his defense (stress made him do it) was (duh!) a lie as well.  In the earlier court proceeding his father argued that his son had been tortured by Saddam Hussein (really? a young boy at the time) and that he was distraught over his wife’s death.

Ansari is an Iraqi immigrant who came to the U.S. when he was 14. In a letter to Magnuson prior to his son’s sentencing in the fraud case, Dr. Tawfiq Ansari said his son had been tortured under Saddam Hussein’s regime.

The elder Ansari told the judge that his son’s mental stability worsened when his ex-wife died in the August 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.  [Note: she was already his EX-wife at the time of her death and it was he who filed for the divorce!–ed]

There is more and it is good work by reporter David Hanners, read it all!

You silly Americans, can’t you see the logic here—Saddam Hussein tortures you, America gives you a good life, but you divorce your wife and the stress of it all sends you into a frenzy to defraud the US government (the taxpayers).

For new readers:  Following immigrant food stamp fraud is one of my extra-curricular hobbies here at RRW.  If someone out there wants to do an investigation of how immigrants purchase convenience stores and other stores that trade in food stamps and get rich by getting  into the food stamp trafficking business, type ‘food stamp fraud’ into our search function (again, a lot of your research is done for you!).  Don’t hold your breath waiting for a real investigative journalist to jump on this scam—it has a political correctness factor of zero!

Amsterdam mayor tells failed asylum seekers to clear out by Friday

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It seems that 130 “refugees” who have been ordered deported have been camping in downtown Amsterdam since September.    Earlier this month we told you about another such group in The Hague.  Those were Iraqi Muslims; there is no mention of nationality of those in the Amsterdam encampment.

Here is the story from Dutch News:

Some 130 failed asylum seekers who have set up camp in Amsterdam’s Osdorp have been told to clear their tents by Friday.

Judges have ruled the camp must go because of safety fears and Amsterdam’s mayor Eberhard van der Laan has given them until Friday morning to comply.

Judges said there are serious hygiene issues at the site because there is no running water and rubbish is not cleared. In addition, the camp is proving a nuisance to people living in the area. Van der Laan has come up with temporary accommodation to house the refugees while their cases are being re-examined.

The camp was set up in September by a group of some 40 failed asylum seekers who argue they cannot return to their home countries, either because it is unsafe or because they have no papers.

Under Dutch asylum rules, failed asylum seekers are not entitled to any help with housing unless they agree to work towards their return.

If you are wondering about US asylum seekers, they are simply released into America with the hope that they will return for their asylum hearing.   If they fail to be granted asylum, they are ordered deported, but then most of those just disappear into ethnic communities joining the US illegal population awaiting amnesty from Obama.

Guatemalan gang violence biggest excuse to grant illegals asylum

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I’ve reported previously that immigration lawyers are working overtime in the US trying to figure out all the new angles to use for illegal aliens entering the US and asking for asylum.

Here is the definition of asylum I posted late last month in a post about “narco-refugees:”

Refugee status or asylum may be granted to people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion. [I don’t see listed here people who are afraid of crime in their home country.—ed]

US asylum was never intended for those just wanting to run away from a crime-ridden country where the government doesn’t protect its people adequately, or for people looking for economic benefits in the United States.  (I used to say looking for work, but now I mean taxpayer supplied benefits).

So here (from Southern California Public Radio) are some excerpts from the story about a poor kid who claims he was going to be killed by gangs (Why? Are they just killing random kids or was he into something he shouldn’t have been?).

Death threats from the maras – or gangs – in his native Guatemala are the reason Ronald Aldana says he left.

Go read the article about how he got across the border with the help of his illegal alien sister who had crossed years earlier.  It will really steam you!

Lots of kids on the way and the Office of Refugee Resettlement is helping them (I’m sure the kids have heard about Obama’s Dream Act and how they can go to college in Maryland on the taxpayers dime!).  The numbers of “unaccompanied” youths is skyrocketing.  (See my post last month)

Meanwhile, KIND [Kids in Need of Defense*] worked with the federal Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Refugee Resettlement to fact-check Aldana’s story and represent him in court. Eventually, the U.S. government granted him asylum because he was a minor who fled organized violence in his native country.

KIND’s director Wendy Young says Aldana represents a big surge in kids who’ve arrived alone in this country during the last couple of years. Only a lucky few, she says, gain asylum.

They have been doing this for decades for various reasons—gangs are only the latest ploy.   If amnesty goes through Congress during the new Obama Administration all of these people will be allowed to stay, get their stuff, and VOTE.

The founder of Homies Unidos, Alex Sanchez, is a former gang member from El Salvador who gained asylum from violence in his homeland during the 1990s. He explains that young people throughout Central America have left their countries for decades now, fleeing war, seeking opportunities for their families or escaping natural disasters. But according to him, these days, the main push factor is a dramatic rise in gang violence.

The “kid” featured in this story is now shacking up with his girlfriend and her family, working part-time and dreaming of bringing the whole clan up from Guatemala.  Oh, and you know, if he was doing any work “part-time” that was steady work, the reporter would have mentioned it.

More than three years after he crossed the border, Ronald Aldana is now 20 years old. He lives in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles in a small apartment with his girlfriend, her parents, and her siblings. He left his sister’s cramped apartment because he didn’t want to burden her, he says, but she still helps him out with money.

Aldana recognizes he’s lucky to have gotten asylum. It allows him to work part-time, and soon, he’ll be able to apply for a green card, too.

When that comes through, he says, he’ll look for a way to move his parents and five siblings out of their native country and into the US. But that won’t be easy: First he’ll need to prove that he has the financial means to support them all.

And, the beat goes on (and on, and on)!

P.S. Don’t forget those Guatemalans are working another angle too—Temporary Protected Status!

* Kids in Need of Defense is a Washington DC legal ‘business’ run by former Ted (don’t bring them to Hyannis) Kennedy staffer Wendy Young.   The organization took in $4 million in its most recent year reported to the IRS, here.  $1.2 million came directly from you as government grants (p. 9).   I don’t have time to do more on this, but I bet there is lots of juicy information that could be unearthed about this outfit.

Senator Rand Paul looking for “eventual path to citizenship” for illegal aliens

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Update:  Some national Tea Party groups are coming out for AMNESTY, Freedom Works is one, I wrote about it here at my other blog.   Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity do not speak for the majority of Tea Party-minded grassroots.

Before you dismiss this headline as a story about one more squishy and frightened Republican figuring that pandering to illegal Hispanics will get him somewhere in electoral politics, please read it here at Politico.

Paul’s proposal has implications for Refugee Resettlement, Temporary Protected Status, the Diversity Visa lottery and a whole host of other LEGAL immigration programs.

First readers need to know that there are all sorts of people calling themselves Tea Party (including that Islam apologist Grover Norquist).   There are also Ron Paul Libertarians who link up from time to time with Conservative Tea Partiers and have some issues in common.  Both strains believe in smaller government and thus lower taxes as a common theme. On some other issues the differences are significant.

Politico sets the stage:

He’ll push to loosen marijuana penalties, legalize undocumented immigrants and pursue a less aggressive American foreign policy.

In the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection win and ahead of a possible 2016 White House bid of his own, the Kentucky Republican plans to mix his hard-line tea party conservatism with more moderate policies that could woo younger voters and minorities largely absent from the GOP coalition. It’s the latest tactic of the freshman senator to inject the Libertarian-minded views shared by his retiring father into mainstream Republican thinking as the party grapples with its future.

In an interview with POLITICO, Paul said he’ll return to Congress this week pushing measures long avoided by his party. He wants to work with liberal Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republicans to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for pot possession. He wants to carve a compromise immigration plan with an “eventual path” to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a proposal he believes could be palatable to conservatives. And he believes his ideas — along with pushing for less U.S. military intervention in conflicts overseas — could help the GOP broaden its tent and appeal to crucial voting blocs that handed Democrats big wins in the West Coast, the Northeast and along the Great Lakes.

Paul says to “assimilate” the Hispanics here illegally already, but demand a trade-off.

The trade-off—-stop all LEGAL immigration until the illegals are assimilated!

Paul plans to inject himself into the middle of the GOP’s emotional immigration debate in the wake of Romney losing swing states with heavy Latino populations like Florida, Colorado and Nevada. Paul is working on a novel plan that he says would “assimilate” many of the 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. Those individuals, he said, could apply for legal status, but immigration would then be clamped down in the interim. He also says his plan would toughen security at the border.

“I want to show what conservatives would or can accept,” he said in describing his plan. “If we assimilate those who are here, however they got here — don’t make it an easy path for citizenship. There would be an eventual path, but we don’t make anybody tomorrow a citizen who came here illegally. But if they’re willing to work, willing to pay taxes, I think we need to normalize those who are here.”

Paul said the “trade-off” would be “not to accept any new legal immigrants while we’re assimilating the ones who are here.” Asked if he is concerned about the ripple effect that could cause around the world, Paul said the details over which countries would be affected are still in the works.  [Senator Paul, I’ll help you identify those countries!—ed]

Paul has also been a leader in attempts to cut foreign aid—a bread and butter issue if there ever was one for many of the so-called non-profits involved around the world.

(Can you hear it?  The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the refugee industry?)

Longtime readers might recall that Senator Paul had a hissy-fit of sorts when he found out Iraqi terrorists had been resettled in his home state of Kentucky here last year.