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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 13, 2014
What the hell is this crap?
Seriously, what am I reading?
This is now reality?
Who authorized this?
In the fight against the schemers and unethical lawyers trying to defraud unsuspecting immigrants, one of the many front lines is in a room above the nave of the Bronx Spanish Evangelical Church.
One night recently, more than 60 people, most of them immigrants, gathered there for a briefing about President Obama’s recently announced plans to offer millions of undocumented immigrants a reprieve from deportation. But before plunging into the basic elements of the initiatives, the event’s organizers issued an emphatic warning about immigration fraud.
“If someone invites you to their apartment to fill out papers, don’t do it,” Angela Fernandez, executive director of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, told the congregation. “If they tell you to pay in cash, don’t do it.”
Immigration fraud has been an enduring scourge of the immigrant population. But immigrant service providers and government officials expect that the rollout of Mr. Obama’s sweeping executive actions will inspire a significant rise in it across the country, and they are moving quickly to forestall it.
Immigrants “have to arm themselves and prepare themselves against the con artists that are going to come out of the woodwork,” said Maritza Mejia Ming, director of the immigrant fraud unit of the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
President Obama’s executive actions, which could temporarily shield as many as five million people from deportation and grant many of them work permits, are not scheduled to be put into effect until next year, with the most far-reaching program beginning in May.
Still, immigrants’ advocates say they have already begun hearing about shady lawyers and others promising to accelerate the application process — in exchange for a payment of thousands of dollars.
“Many immigrants believe that something is already available and that they must begin to sign up,” said Valeria Treves, executive director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, a group based in Queens.
While immigration schemes and shoddy lawyering can sometimes cost victims their life savings, poorly handled cases can also destroy all chances of getting immigration benefits, and may lead to deportation.
“The real problem is that immigration law is so complex and so punitive that if you get it wrong, your path to relief may be closed forever,” said Reid Trautz, director of practice and professionalism at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
