Published on Friday, October 17, 2014 00:00
By Jim Kouri - examiner.com

A FEDERAL official holding an important and ultra-responsible post is on the way to prison for holding a citizenship fire sale for illegal aliens in America’s Golden State, a haven for illegal aliens who are received with open arms by feckless political leaders, according to a former federal police official, Peter Knowles.

In an obvious effort to avoid more bad publicity for President Obama and his practically obsessive goal of giving millions of illegal aliens citizenship, the U.S. federal court judge in the nation’s “sanctuary state” of California quietly sentenced a Department of Homeland Security official who took bribes in exchange for giving illegal aliens documents that made them appear legal residents or citizens of the United States, according to a former federal police officer.

An officer with DHS’s Citizenship and Immigration Services, Mai Nhu Nguyen — herself an immigrant from Vietnam who became a naturalized citizen — accepted a plea bargain offer in which she would serve less than three years for obtaining thousands of dollars from illegal aliens for documents that proved they were either legal residents or naturalized citizens of the United States.

Many law enforcement officers voiced their fears that even citizenship papers may become highly suspect as a form of identification. “As it is, the driver’s license is no longer an accurate and reliable form of identification, with so many cases of [Motor Vehicles Departments] MVD’s involvement in fraud and bribery,” said Malcolm Seston, a highway patrol cop.

When contacted by Examiner to learn the number of illegal aliens who obtained documents from the 48-year-old Nguyen, officials said the number of illegal aliens involved in this specific case is still being investigated. The DHS also failed to provide the number of incidents of fraud and bribery within their citizenship offices.

The DHS’s Inspector General John Roth, who with his investigators worked with the FBI to crack the case, notes that Mai Nhu Nguyen, 48, had abused her “power to approve or deny applications for immigration benefits that are submitted by immigrants.” According to the FBI, from 2011 through June 2013 Nguyen “solicited and took bribes from Vietnamese immigrants.”

For example, in a case involving an illegal alien receiving legal immigrant status, the convicted Nguyen received about $1,000 from the Vietnamese alien who sought that most valuable of immigration identification documents known as the “green card.”

California is arguably “sanctuary central” for illegal aliens from Mexico, China and Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam. The lawbreakers who reside there are getting driver’s licenses, healthcare, food stamps, housing, employment assistance and other benefits. Several police officers have told the Examiner that these illegal aliens are also receiving millions of dollars for legal assistance when they commit crimes such as homicides, rapes, robberies and other felonies and misdemeanors.

In a separate case also involving Vietnam immigration, two foreign service officers or FSO in were arrested for their cash-for-visa scams. In May, Michael Sestak, an FSO serving as the non-immigrant visa chief at the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was arrested in California and was charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and bribery.

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