The New York Times reports<\/a> that \u201cA shadowy industry dedicated to asylum fraud thrives in New York, where many of the country\u2019s asylum claims are filed. Immigrants peddle personal accounts ripped from international headlines, con artists prey on the newly arrived and nonlawyers offer misguided advice.\u201d
\nAccording to the Times, \u201claw enforcement officials say [that bogus asylum claims]are among the most common immigration frauds, and the hardest to detect and investigate.\u201d And even when fraud is detected, the case of the Guinean chambermaid also reveals that people who defraud our asylum system know they have nothing to fear from being caught. With very good reason, the woman seemingly believed that committing tax fraud on top of asylum fraud would not result in her removal from the United States. In spite of changing her story twice, she remains in the country nearly seven years after initially filing her petition.<\/p>\nWhat should be even more obvious is the need to expedite the removal of people who file fraudulent claims in order to protect both the American people and people who truly are deserving of humanitarian protection by the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Whether former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, raped a chambermaid in a Manhattan hotel in May is a matter still to be determined. And the fact that the alleged victim had admittedly committed various forms of fraud in no way diminishes from the seriousness of the crime, if a crime indeed occurred,<\/p>\n
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