News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Woman pleads guilty to million-dollar fraud of immigration applications

March 19, 2007

NEW YORK, NY - Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kevin Delli-Colli, the Acting special agent in charge of the New York Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that Maria Maximo, 56, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges relating to two schemes to defraud immigrants by charging them between $500 and $2,500 to file immigration applications that Maximo knew were baseless and would ultimately be denied. According to the felony Information to which Maximo pleaded guilty, and other documents publicly filed in this case:

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