Thread: Taking Bribes in Exchange for Granting Citizenship

FORMER IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO 3 AND A HALF
YEARS IN PRISON FOR TAKING BRIBES IN EXCHANGE FOR
GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO ALIENS

• United States Attorney
  Southern District of New York
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  January 10, 2008
  CONTACT:
  U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
  YUSILL SCRIBNER
  REBEKAH CARMICHAEL
  PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
  (212) 637-2600

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, announced that JIMMIE ORTEGA, 59,
a former Supervisory District Adjudications Officer with the
naturalization unit of the United States Citizenship &
Immigration Services ("CIS") in New York City, was sentenced to
42 months in prison today for taking tens of thousands of dollars
in bribes in exchange for granting United States citizenship to
ineligible aliens. The sentence was imposed by United States
District Judge JOHN F. KEENAN in Manhattan federal court.
According to the Indictment and other documents publicly filed in
this case, as well as statements made during ORTEGA's guilty plea
proceeding:
From October 2004 to April 2006, ORTEGA used his
position with CIS to obtain approvals for ineligible aliens who
were seeking United States Citizenship in exchange for bribes.
ORTEGA, working with one or more other CIS employees, arranged to
approve aliens' citizenship applications without the aliens’
meeting necessary requirements, including the requirements that
they appear at CIS's office in New York for an interview with a
CIS adjudications officer, demonstrate proficiency in the English
language during such interview, and pass the required civics and
United States history examination during such interview.
ORTEGA solicited and received bribes from each alien of
between $1,500 and $4,000 in exchange for arranging for that
alien's naturalization, and solicited bribes from at least 20
aliens in connection with the scheme. ORTEGA retired from his
position at CIS in April 2006.
ORTEGA was arrested in connection with these charges on
October 26, 2006, and pleaded guilty in July, 2007, to one count
of conspiracy, one count of soliciting bribes, and one count of
procuring or attempting to procure naturalization unlawfully.
During his guilty plea, ORTEGA admitted, "I accepted
bribes from applicants seeking citizenship that could not speak,
read or understand sufficient English to pass the English
proficiency and United States history requirements,â€

This used to be a big problem in Miami with immigration and the Social Security Office. There were immigration employees who were actually selling real green cards to illegals. Now many Hispanics no longer have access to those areas and if they do there are more checks and balances. Many of those people will break the law and do anything they can for their own people.

Originally Posted by swatchick

This used to be a big problem in Miami with immigration and the Social Security Office. There were immigration employees who were actually selling real green cards to illegals. Now many Hispanics no longer have access to those areas and if they do there are more checks and balances. Many of those people will break the law and do anything they can for their own people.

In the Latino / Hispanic population they don’t believe it’s wrong, as long as it helping another Hispanic and their pockets. They will tell you its ok to lie and steal and cheat if it helps themselves and their people.

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, stated, “Jimmie Ortega sold United
States citizenship to immigrants who did not qualify for it. In
doing so, he violated the trust of his country, abused his
position of power, and corrupted the process by which immigrants
earn citizenship."

How is this different from the McCain/Kennedy amnesty?

You can not apply for entry into a country you've already invaded. No application for citizenship should be accepted from someone who can not prove they are here legally. No application for citizenship or entry should be allowed from a foreign country for their relatives who remain here illegally. Such actions are fraud, corruption, and abuse of power.

Greg you are correct. I see it down here in Miami all the time. It seems like they are major scammers according to crimes committed and those arrested for it. Fake doctors are usually Cuban, fake dentists are usually Columbian and then you have the ones who marry people at a price for green card scams, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, insurance fraud which incidently the hispanics are tied with Russians, and mortgage fraud and the list goes on. In fact even with the gangs recently 12 or 13 people were indicted in South Florida and everyone was Hispanic and the state report actually stated that part of the escalating gang problem is due to illegal immigration. What was surprising is that the newspaper even printed that. It is in todays Sun Sentinel and I posted the article earlier today.

Originally Posted by swatchick

Greg you are correct. I see it down here in Miami all the time. It seems like they are major scammers according to crimes committed and those arrested for it. Fake doctors are usually Cuban, fake dentists are usually Columbian and then you have the ones who marry people at a price for green card scams, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, insurance fraud which incidently the hispanics are tied with Russians, and mortgage fraud and the list goes on. In fact even with the gangs recently 12 or 13 people were indicted in South Florida and everyone was Hispanic and the state report actually stated that part of the escalating gang problem is due to illegal immigration. What was surprising is that the newspaper even printed that. It is in todays Sun Sentinel and I posted the article earlier today.

The more we expose the crime the more the news will print it ...
Its high time all the new papers print the facts about the cause of immigrant gangs, crime and the factors leading up to it... The can march around it all they want but the facts don’t change.
Helping a whole bunch,us getting Washington on our side !