Believe In America.com

butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2269

The government granted asylum status to scores of immigrants based on fraudulent documents and false testimony orchestrated by a Sacramento law firm, according to a federal grand jury indictment made public Thursday.

The indictment alleges that between early 2000 and late 2004, five defendants filed countless asylum applications with the government containing fictitious stories of ethnic, religious or political persecution the clients supposedly suffered in their home countries.

The applications were often supported by doctors' letters, medical certificates, affidavits and other documents which were all counterfeit, the indictment alleges.

Among defendants named in the indictment are brothers Jagprit Sekhon, 37, and Jagdip Sekhon, 39, attorneys and erstwhile partners in the Sekhon & Sekhon law firm.

Amid the protracted investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the firm's Sacramento office shut down. The San Francisco office remains open and is headed by Jagdip Sekhon. His brother is no longer associated with the firm.

"Scores of alien clients of Sekhon & Sekhon who would not have been entitled to asylum status in the United States fraudulently obtained asylum status," the indictment states.

continued:
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/42724.html

Andy51 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 199 Location: Washington state

There is a lot of money in "illegals". Lawyers like these are making millions using fraud to get legal statis. Corporations make millions in profits by hiring illegals, paying them low wages and no benefits, banks make millions loaning money to them for cars and homes, etc. It's no wonder that nothing is being done about the problem, to many people are making big bucks off the illegals in one way or another.

As long as those with "clout" can stop the government from acutally enforcing the laws on illegals, nothing will change. And of course since Bush wants to open the borders and make a North American Union, they have someone in office who will help them continue to make millions off of the illegal problem!

Take care.

Andy