Frustrated with Congress’ Inaction, White House Plans to Crack Down on Undocumented Immigrants

By Abdi Aynte
Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 11:30 am

Disconcerted with Congress’ failure to pass a comprehensive immigration reform this summer, the Bush administration on Friday announced plans to crack down on the stream of undocumented immigrants, departing from the wait-and-see attitude that marked the administration’s approach to this thorny issue.

The stepped-up enforcement includes heftier fines for U.S. businesses that knowingly hire undocumented immigrants, increased criminal prosecutions and frequent raids and deportations.

At a joint press conference Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the administration will use its powers to enforce the existing laws since Congress failed to act.

A bipartisan effort to rewrite immigration laws in Congress failed twice in the Senate this summer. Chertoff and Gutierrez, who helped author and lobby the bill in the Senate, said the administration wouldn’t sit idle while immigrants pour into the country.

Under the new rule, which will take effect in September, employers are required to electronically cross-check candidates’ Social Security numbers against federal data. The employer must fire that employee in the event of a “mismatch.”

Should the employer fail to do that, it faces a fine of $12,500 per violation, a 25 percent increase. The government might also prosecute that employer criminally, depending on how egregious the violation is.

In fact, the Bush administration has already accelerated cracking down on undocumented immigrants, deporting more than 185,000 last year–the most ever in a single year, according to  Homeland Security. It also stepped up criminal investigations.

Experts believe that by taking these sweeping measures, the Bush administration is putting Congress’ feet on fire so that influential employers, especially farmers and owners of restaurants, where the majority of undocumented immigrants work, start pushing Congress to fix the broken immigration system.

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SeanPatrick
Comment posted February 8, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

My Immigration Fraud Story – Eagan, Minnesota Minnesota caters to illegal immigrants and marriage for U.S. residency scams using VAWA laws. My wife is an immigrant from Guatemala who entered the country on a tourist VISA. Before we married, we had a child together and she received well over $30,000 in free healthcare through the state or county. She overstayed her tourist VISA and returned to Guatemala with our son for 3 months over Christmas and the New Year leaving me in the U.S. to work. She asked for money for liposuction surgery in Guatemala and I gave her funds to travel and to have the liposuction procedure. When she returned, she said we would need to marry for her and the baby to stay in country. We married quickly in the Dakota County court house and the marriage disintegrated from there. I was hesitant about marriage, but I wanted to keep my son in country and tried to build a happy family. However, my wife wasn’t in the relationship for “love” like I was. She entered this relationship with ambitions of acquiring U.S. residency and running an import business ( indikohandcrafts.org ) in the U.S. that does not pay taxes and claims to be a fair trade organization.

My wife’s family came to visit for a few months and they continually attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and I. Ultimately, my wife had to assault me by punching me in the neck to get a defensive verbal response from me. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way. I was arrested by the Eagan Police for 5th Degree Domestic assault and spent 3 days in jail for something I didn’t do and for not leaving my home under duress. Two years to date after we had been in country together, my wife made a fraudulent VAWA complaint to expedite her immigration process in lieu of U.S. residency through marriage.

While I was in jail, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account. When I was released from jail, the courts issued an order for protection. I was broke, homeless and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office. Shortly after, my wife contacted me and asked for me to write a letter to immigration which stated I was an abusive husband. She said if I wrote the letter in her favor she would work with me to get my home back. Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote immigration to withdrawl my spousal petition for my wife’s U.S. residency and reported all of the facts. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce and that was all I could afford. My wife said she was in no hurry to divorce. Being married for two years to acquire conditional residency was a back up plan incase the VAWA complaint to immigration fell through.

The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property before a divorce hearing. They ordered that I surrender a car to my wife that was solely in my name. She demanded $3000 a month in support payments, but inly received a judgement for $1200 a month in child support. During the order for protection hearing, I asked my wife about her employment and academic credentials. She worked as a teacher at a school in Minneapolis called Passport Pals and claimed to have a degree in Psychology. In court and under oath, my wife stated she was a teacher and that she had a degree in Psychology. I challenged her about her academic credentials and she lied with a straight face. I pushed the questioning and she finally admitted to not holding a college degree.

Even though the judge saw that my wife lied under oath, he granted her a one year order for protection. My house recently foreclosed and I am excluded from employment opportunities in my professional field due to having a “criminal” history now. I was charged with 5th degree domestic assault, but I was not found guilty of domestic assault or abuse in a court of law.

A group called Civil Society Helps ( civilsocietyhelps(dot)org ) is now representing my wife and they are still supporting her assault and abuse claims to assist her with expediting her immigration process. They help many immigrant women file false abuse claims under VAWA to assist them with their immigration process. My wife’s pro-bono attorney Martha Sullivan ( Civil Society Helps Attorney) even threatened an order for protection against me in the court house lobby when divorce negotiations broke down. I recorded the entire conversation and her threats were completely unwarranted. During another court hearing, I informed the judge of Martha’s threats and she laughed in an embarrassed manner and said she was afraid of me (complete nonsense).

I lost everything and I am no longer employable in my field by many corporations due to my “criminal” history. I had no previous criminal history at age 36 and I honorably completed 4 years of U.S. Army service.

Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife that didn’t love me. In 3 days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks after being released from jail. With all of this going on, I am doing the best I can to pay child support ( ordered to pay $100 a day / $3000 a month) for two children between my first wife of 8 years and my immigrant residency seeking wife of 1 year. Since June 2007, I have paid over $12,000 in child support payments. I have attempted to acquire employment contracts, but have been frequently excluded due to my new criminal history ( 5th degree domestic assault charge – no conviction).

With lies from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license.

My wife has been confronted by the Eagan Police several times for driving without a license or insurance. On multiple occasions she was just given a warning and she continued to drive my vehicle in Minnesota without a drivers license or insurance.

Later, I spoke with one of the officers that was on scene when I was arrested. Sgt. Mason of the Eagan Police department was going to allow my wife to drive a motor vehicle without a drivers license or insurance while my son was in the car. I called him on it and said it was against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle in Minnesota without a license or insurance. Sgt. Mason’s partner threatened to arrest me for public disturbance. I did nothing wrong and she (Sgt. Mason’s partner) threatened to take me back to jail for disorderly conduct…. They backed off with their threat of arrest when I informed them I had a witness looking on….

Immigrants in Minnesota have more rights and free legal services than American Citizens do. VAWA is completely unconstitutional and clearly provides immigrants with loopholes and fast track plans to acquire U.S. residency under fraudulent pretences.

My wife contacted me several times after the Order for Protection was issued. She always called me an “ABUSER” real slow and sarcastically on the phone. Knowing how groups like the civil society work, I can only imagine how they coached and indoctronated my wife into the liberal feminist movement. Martha Sullivan’s order for protection threat was completely uncalled for and demonstrates how this pro-immigration group operates.

Sorry for the rant, but people need to know about these kind of immigration scams. People need to know about the organizations that promote marriage for immigration scams. The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country. My wife became legal and I became illegal.


northencoder1
Comment posted March 20, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

This is normal VAWA and police bias. This is a letter I was going to send to the Mayor of Saint Francis.
This transpired after the soon to be ex had talked to the Alexander House rep “Colleen” and she flat out told her that she wished she would say that she was “afraid of me” even after my ex had said that I had not ever abused her and she did not ever think I would.

VAWA is code for fraud in divorce.

I am writing this in response to the bias behavior and lack of impartial investigation that I believe was conducted by Officer Rychner from the Anoka county Sheriffs dept.
The reason I am writing to you on this matter, is that when a Sheriff’s deputy has been called, personally or otherwise, I am told that their decisions take priority over the
Saint Francis police department.

The Saint Francis police officer, Officer Heeren, I believe had a grasp on the situation, and understood what was happening but was not allowed to act on his judgments due to a bias
Anoka Sheriff’s dept deputy.

I would like to know if the below scenario is common place in Saint Francis, and if there is anything that may be done.

Evening of Feb 14.

Lisa got home around 5:00pm.

I was not expecting her home until later and so I was attempting to avoid fighting by getting the kids outside the house and bring them some place to spend time with them.
(Lisa and I live in the same house) I filed for divorce Jan 9th 2007.

I heard the dogs barking which indicated that someone was coming up our long 500′ driveway, and told the kids that we are going to eat some pizza with their older sister.
As Lisa was coming in through the garage. I was just about outside the front door with the kids.

Lisa followed me all the way out to the car attempting to pull savanna,  our 2 1/2 year old daughter from me.
When we got to the car she was inside my car on top of me as I was in the drivers seat.

I was holding savanna ( in between me and the passenger seat using my body as a blocker so Lisa could not reach over the
top of me and pull savanna out of the car.

Her own statement ” I put my head in just to get a hug and kiss from her”. should indicate how far inside the car on top of me she was.

This statement she F1-07-1651

I made a police report on the way to go eat pizza telling them that she was attempting to not let me leave by attempting to shut the door on me before I could get into the car.
Also showed them the marks on my hand. case number 07034068 with officer Nat Arvidson 15834.

I got back home from eating pizza with my 3 young children and my oldest daughter and her friend at Pizza Flame in Coon Rapids at 9:50pm.
I told Chase ( 7 years old) and Alexis(5 years old) to go downstairs and put on their pajamas while I get Savanna to bed.
I was laying down with savanna when there was a knock on my bedroom door.
It was Dept Rychner and Officer Heerren.

Dept Rychner questioned me as to what happened and would not let me finish most sentences with questions ” why wouldn’t you let her give her a hug and kiss”.
She also interrupted me by saying, “oh, so you were carrying her like a football” and “So you were driving with her in the front seat” and other absurd questions.
Never once paying attention to what I was trying to tell her.
This is obvious by her report which does not say that I told her Lisa was trying to pull savanna from my arms.

Officer Heeren had told me something like, living together like this just wouldn’t work and that we need to get a divorce.
I told the officers that I did file for divorce Jan 9th, and I was pushing though the paperwork as fast as I could. I was trying to follow the process but that I
did not feel that I should be chased out of the house I built long before I met Lisa for fear of her next allegations.

Dept Rychner after talking to my 6 and 5 year old downstairs, came up and I asked her if Chase had told her if mommy had slammed the car door on daddy’s hand.
Dept Rychner said “yes”.
I asked Dept Rychner if this was assault and she said “yes”.
Dept Rychner then asked me “do you want to press charges”.
I told dept Rychner that something has to be done with Lisa because she is getting more and more wild in her behavior and accusations.

At that point Dept Rychner asked me to go into the kitchen and place my hands behind my back.
She placed me under arrest for Domestic abuse.

I was trying to leave and spend time with the children by taking them out for a nice dinner, away from the stressful atmosphere.

Officer Heeren had been talking to Lisa’s ex-husband outside and had indicated that Lisa should be arrested.

When I was in the back seat of the police car, Officer heeren was discussing arresting Lisa at the Dept Rychner’s window.
Dept Rychner got  out of the police car and talked officer heeren out of the arrest. ( This is a guess on my part but Lisa was not brought in).

In Dept Rychner’s police report forwarded on to the prosecutors office, she said that there was not enough evidence to indicate that Lisa should be arrested.
If the prosecutor is relying on this information to make a decision, what basis would he have for any action when the arresting officer does not allow un bias reports to be used.

I have come to find out from my neighbor Tim Allen, that Lisa had discussed Dept Rychner’s “sympathy with her situation” with him, and Dept Rychner told Lisa to call her directly.

Lisa did just that, This was not a 911 call but a direct call to Dept Rychner I believe.

Dept Rychner was not interested at all in what I had to say, left most of it out of the report and did not even acknowledge just how far Lisa would have had to be inside of the car on top of me for
her to ” give her a hug and kiss”, which is not what Lisa was attempting to do. And then not arrest her.

For Dept Rychner to say that “I believed that I did not have enough to pursue charges of domestic assault against Lisa” to show her bias in this arrest.

I would like to know how this can be overlooked.
I not only have had to spend 2 days in jail over this, but now have had to spend $2500 on a lawyer to defend myself on May 21st.
I’ve been kicked out of the house I built by hand in 1996.

This was used entirely for a pending divorce, and has caused enormous stress at home and work because of this bias, pre decided action by Dept Rychner.

With officer Rychner taking charge of these types of investigations, I believe that no man is safe from her exorcizing her bias decisions.


SeanPatrick
Comment posted February 8, 2008 @ 11:41 am

My Immigration Fraud Story – Eagan, Minnesota Minnesota caters to illegal immigrants and marriage for U.S. residency scams using VAWA laws. My wife is an immigrant from Guatemala who entered the country on a tourist VISA. Before we married, we had a child together and she received well over $30,000 in free healthcare through the state or county. She overstayed her tourist VISA and returned to Guatemala with our son for 3 months over Christmas and the New Year leaving me in the U.S. to work. She asked for money for liposuction surgery in Guatemala and I gave her funds to travel and to have the liposuction procedure. When she returned, she said we would need to marry for her and the baby to stay in country. We married quickly in the Dakota County court house and the marriage disintegrated from there. I was hesitant about marriage, but I wanted to keep my son in country and tried to build a happy family. However, my wife wasn't in the relationship for “love” like I was. She entered this relationship with ambitions of acquiring U.S. residency and running an import business ( indikohandcrafts.org ) in the U.S. that does not pay taxes and claims to be a fair trade organization.

My wife's family came to visit for a few months and they continually attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and I. Ultimately, my wife had to assault me by punching me in the neck to get a defensive verbal response from me. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way. I was arrested by the Eagan Police for 5th Degree Domestic assault and spent 3 days in jail for something I didn't do and for not leaving my home under duress. Two years to date after we had been in country together, my wife made a fraudulent VAWA complaint to expedite her immigration process in lieu of U.S. residency through marriage.

While I was in jail, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account. When I was released from jail, the courts issued an order for protection. I was broke, homeless and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office. Shortly after, my wife contacted me and asked for me to write a letter to immigration which stated I was an abusive husband. She said if I wrote the letter in her favor she would work with me to get my home back. Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote immigration to withdrawl my spousal petition for my wife's U.S. residency and reported all of the facts. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce and that was all I could afford. My wife said she was in no hurry to divorce. Being married for two years to acquire conditional residency was a back up plan incase the VAWA complaint to immigration fell through.

The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property before a divorce hearing. They ordered that I surrender a car to my wife that was solely in my name. She demanded $3000 a month in support payments, but inly received a judgement for $1200 a month in child support. During the order for protection hearing, I asked my wife about her employment and academic credentials. She worked as a teacher at a school in Minneapolis called Passport Pals and claimed to have a degree in Psychology. In court and under oath, my wife stated she was a teacher and that she had a degree in Psychology. I challenged her about her academic credentials and she lied with a straight face. I pushed the questioning and she finally admitted to not holding a college degree.

Even though the judge saw that my wife lied under oath, he granted her a one year order for protection. My house recently foreclosed and I am excluded from employment opportunities in my professional field due to having a “criminal” history now. I was charged with 5th degree domestic assault, but I was not found guilty of domestic assault or abuse in a court of law.

A group called Civil Society Helps ( civilsocietyhelps(dot)org ) is now representing my wife and they are still supporting her assault and abuse claims to assist her with expediting her immigration process. They help many immigrant women file false abuse claims under VAWA to assist them with their immigration process. My wife's pro-bono attorney Martha Sullivan ( Civil Society Helps Attorney) even threatened an order for protection against me in the court house lobby when divorce negotiations broke down. I recorded the entire conversation and her threats were completely unwarranted. During another court hearing, I informed the judge of Martha's threats and she laughed in an embarrassed manner and said she was afraid of me (complete nonsense).

I lost everything and I am no longer employable in my field by many corporations due to my “criminal” history. I had no previous criminal history at age 36 and I honorably completed 4 years of U.S. Army service.

Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife that didn't love me. In 3 days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks after being released from jail. With all of this going on, I am doing the best I can to pay child support ( ordered to pay $100 a day / $3000 a month) for two children between my first wife of 8 years and my immigrant residency seeking wife of 1 year. Since June 2007, I have paid over $12,000 in child support payments. I have attempted to acquire employment contracts, but have been frequently excluded due to my new criminal history ( 5th degree domestic assault charge – no conviction).

With lies from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license.

My wife has been confronted by the Eagan Police several times for driving without a license or insurance. On multiple occasions she was just given a warning and she continued to drive my vehicle in Minnesota without a drivers license or insurance.

Later, I spoke with one of the officers that was on scene when I was arrested. Sgt. Mason of the Eagan Police department was going to allow my wife to drive a motor vehicle without a drivers license or insurance while my son was in the car. I called him on it and said it was against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle in Minnesota without a license or insurance. Sgt. Mason's partner threatened to arrest me for public disturbance. I did nothing wrong and she (Sgt. Mason's partner) threatened to take me back to jail for disorderly conduct…. They backed off with their threat of arrest when I informed them I had a witness looking on….

Immigrants in Minnesota have more rights and free legal services than American Citizens do. VAWA is completely unconstitutional and clearly provides immigrants with loopholes and fast track plans to acquire U.S. residency under fraudulent pretences.

My wife contacted me several times after the Order for Protection was issued. She always called me an “ABUSER” real slow and sarcastically on the phone. Knowing how groups like the civil society work, I can only imagine how they coached and indoctronated my wife into the liberal feminist movement. Martha Sullivan's order for protection threat was completely uncalled for and demonstrates how this pro-immigration group operates.

Sorry for the rant, but people need to know about these kind of immigration scams. People need to know about the organizations that promote marriage for immigration scams. The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country. My wife became legal and I became illegal.


northencoder1
Comment posted March 20, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

This is normal VAWA and police bias. This is a letter I was going to send to the Mayor of Saint Francis.

This transpired after the soon to be ex had talked to the Alexander House rep “Colleen” and she flat out told her that she wished she would say that she was “afraid of me” even after my ex had said that I had not ever abused her and she did not ever think I would.

VAWA is code for fraud in divorce.

I am writing this in response to the bias behavior and lack of impartial investigation that I believe was conducted by Officer Rychner from the Anoka county Sheriffs dept.

The reason I am writing to you on this matter, is that when a Sheriff's deputy has been called, personally or otherwise, I am told that their decisions take priority over the

Saint Francis police department.

The Saint Francis police officer, Officer Heeren, I believe had a grasp on the situation, and understood what was happening but was not allowed to act on his judgments due to a bias

Anoka Sheriff's dept deputy.

I would like to know if the below scenario is common place in Saint Francis, and if there is anything that may be done.

Evening of Feb 14.

Lisa got home around 5:00pm.

I was not expecting her home until later and so I was attempting to avoid fighting by getting the kids outside the house and bring them some place to spend time with them.

(Lisa and I live in the same house) I filed for divorce Jan 9th 2007.

I heard the dogs barking which indicated that someone was coming up our long 500' driveway, and told the kids that we are going to eat some pizza with their older sister.

As Lisa was coming in through the garage. I was just about outside the front door with the kids.

Lisa followed me all the way out to the car attempting to pull savanna,  our 2 1/2 year old daughter from me.

When we got to the car she was inside my car on top of me as I was in the drivers seat.

I was holding savanna ( in between me and the passenger seat using my body as a blocker so Lisa could not reach over the

top of me and pull savanna out of the car.

Her own statement ” I put my head in just to get a hug and kiss from her”. should indicate how far inside the car on top of me she was.

This statement she F1-07-1651

I made a police report on the way to go eat pizza telling them that she was attempting to not let me leave by attempting to shut the door on me before I could get into the car.

Also showed them the marks on my hand. case number 07034068 with officer Nat Arvidson 15834.

I got back home from eating pizza with my 3 young children and my oldest daughter and her friend at Pizza Flame in Coon Rapids at 9:50pm.

I told Chase ( 7 years old) and Alexis(5 years old) to go downstairs and put on their pajamas while I get Savanna to bed.

I was laying down with savanna when there was a knock on my bedroom door.

It was Dept Rychner and Officer Heerren.

Dept Rychner questioned me as to what happened and would not let me finish most sentences with questions ” why wouldn't you let her give her a hug and kiss”.

She also interrupted me by saying, “oh, so you were carrying her like a football” and “So you were driving with her in the front seat” and other absurd questions.

Never once paying attention to what I was trying to tell her.

This is obvious by her report which does not say that I told her Lisa was trying to pull savanna from my arms.

Officer Heeren had told me something like, living together like this just wouldn't work and that we need to get a divorce.

I told the officers that I did file for divorce Jan 9th, and I was pushing though the paperwork as fast as I could. I was trying to follow the process but that I

did not feel that I should be chased out of the house I built long before I met Lisa for fear of her next allegations.

Dept Rychner after talking to my 6 and 5 year old downstairs, came up and I asked her if Chase had told her if mommy had slammed the car door on daddy's hand.

Dept Rychner said “yes”.

I asked Dept Rychner if this was assault and she said “yes”.

Dept Rychner then asked me “do you want to press charges”.

I told dept Rychner that something has to be done with Lisa because she is getting more and more wild in her behavior and accusations.

At that point Dept Rychner asked me to go into the kitchen and place my hands behind my back.

She placed me under arrest for Domestic abuse.

I was trying to leave and spend time with the children by taking them out for a nice dinner, away from the stressful atmosphere.

Officer Heeren had been talking to Lisa's ex-husband outside and had indicated that Lisa should be arrested.

When I was in the back seat of the police car, Officer heeren was discussing arresting Lisa at the Dept Rychner's window.

Dept Rychner got  out of the police car and talked officer heeren out of the arrest. ( This is a guess on my part but Lisa was not brought in).

In Dept Rychner's police report forwarded on to the prosecutors office, she said that there was not enough evidence to indicate that Lisa should be arrested.

If the prosecutor is relying on this information to make a decision, what basis would he have for any action when the arresting officer does not allow un bias reports to be used.

I have come to find out from my neighbor Tim Allen, that Lisa had discussed Dept Rychner's “sympathy with her situation” with him, and Dept Rychner told Lisa to call her directly.

Lisa did just that, This was not a 911 call but a direct call to Dept Rychner I believe.

Dept Rychner was not interested at all in what I had to say, left most of it out of the report and did not even acknowledge just how far Lisa would have had to be inside of the car on top of me for

her to ” give her a hug and kiss”, which is not what Lisa was attempting to do. And then not arrest her.

For Dept Rychner to say that “I believed that I did not have enough to pursue charges of domestic assault against Lisa” to show her bias in this arrest.

I would like to know how this can be overlooked.

I not only have had to spend 2 days in jail over this, but now have had to spend $2500 on a lawyer to defend myself on May 21st.

I've been kicked out of the house I built by hand in 1996.

This was used entirely for a pending divorce, and has caused enormous stress at home and work because of this bias, pre decided action by Dept Rychner.

With officer Rychner taking charge of these types of investigations, I believe that no man is safe from her exorcizing her bias decisions.


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