Quote Originally Posted by roundabout
The demand has been so strong that law enforcement officers in Texas have been bribed in recent years to sell the valuable documents, and several dozen have been caught.

Immigrants sometimes resort to buying real documents from corrupt officials at steep prices.

Three were videotaped in a Houston government office last summer as they handed over $15,000 apiece for green cards, according to court records.


The underground market has snared 24 state employees at DPS driver's license offices caught taking bribes to sell authentic documents to those who don't qualify.

"Houston poses a large portion of our investigations in that regard," said unit director Major Rhonda Fleming, referring to corrupt DPS employees. "We do seem to have a lot of internal crime in Houston. I don't know what the deal is. Maybe it's because it's such a big city."

accused of paying an ICE agent $10,000 for two green cards

Houston ICE office to pay agents up to $15,000 in cash,

And even when visas are obtained legally, fraud can be involved.

The foreign workers, who paid between $20,000 to $80,000 each for the visas,




Hey MW, is this what the RealId is supposed to stop?
My thoughts exactly......