re: "Journalist Admits Is Illegal, Has License Cancelled"

Patterico at Patterico's Pontifications ("Harangues that Just Make Sense") signaled his outrage.

Money quote(s):

"Another guy living in the shadows, by which I mean writing an article in a national publication about his illegal status" (Emphasis in original text. - CAA.)

Doing the work that 90 percent of the print journalists in America would give their left nut to do, i.e., write for the Washington Post.

"I am outraged. I call upon all good citizens of conscience to demand that this man be allowed to seek citizenship in the normal manner that an illegal immigrant seeks citizenship."

Off the top of my head, that "normal manner" would involve:

a.) Self-deporting;

b.) Getting someone (employer, relative with legal status) to file an immigrant petition for him with DHS;

c.) Somehow get a waiver of the 10 year bar to entry to the U.S. which he's incurred by living and working illegally all these years;

d.) Immigrating (legally) to the U.S. and receiving an actual, non-fraudulent "green card";

e.) Residing (legally) in the U.S. long enough to qualify for naturalization as a U.S. citizen.

Note: Step "e." can be accelerated by enlistment, and honorable service, in the U.S. military during a time of war.

7/22

re: "Obama's Aunt Zeituni is Back in Boston"

TSB at The Skeptical Bureaucrat ("Giving my fellow Americans the view from my cubicle") had an update on a famous visa overstay case.

Money quote(s):

"Ms. Zeituni Onyango, the Kenyan Aunt of the President of the United States (KAOPOTUS) and our nation's foremost immigration scofflaw, is back in Boston and living in public housing again while preparing for her next deportation hearing"

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"(H)er next hearing is scheduled for April Fools Day. If an immigration judge rewards her decade of law-breaking with a grant of asylum, I don't know who will be the bigger fools: the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or the millions of immigrants who went to the trouble of complying with U.S. laws over the past ten years."

TIN - Bank customer used fake passport for ID

This Is Nottingham

Bank customer used fake passport for ID


Friday, April 03, 2009, 08:00

A HYSON Green man was arrested for being in the UK illegally when he produced his fake passport as identification at a bank.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Ebenezer Adeboye, 38, of Claypole Road, Hyson Green, complained that his cash card had been taken by another bank when he used its cash machine.

He visited the Halifax bank in Clumber Street, Nottingham, in February and explained what had happened, producing his passport as identification.

Police were called when staff checked the passport, which had false British immigration stamps."

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rebecca.sherdley@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk

TO - Father of Miss Oregon investigated on suspicion of visa fraud

The Oregonian

Father of Miss Oregon investigated on suspicion of visa fraud


by Michelle Roberts, The Oregonian

Friday March 13, 2009, 5:30 AM

U.S. immigration officials are investigating the father of the reigning Miss Oregon on suspicion of visa fraud after an international war crimes tribunal reported that he had served in a military unit that slaughtered unarmed Muslims in Bosnia in 1995.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Federal prosecutors say that Serbian national Milenko Krstic, 52, father of Miss Oregon Danijela Krstic, 24, lied in 1998 when he was applying for refugee status, stating under oath that he had never served in the military.

Six years after Krstic settled in Beaverton in 1999 with his wife and two daughters, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reported to U.S. immigration authorities that Krstic had, in fact, served in the Army of Republika Srpska.

Krstic's militia, also known as the Bosnian Serb Army, has been designated by the International Court of Justice in The Hague as having participated in war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian civil war in the early 1990s."

"A three-judge panel rejected Krstic's argument that he couldn't be prosecuted for possessing an authentic immigration document, or "green card," even though it had been obtained by means of a false statement."

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"In 1998, three years after leaving the military, Krstic and his family emigrated to the United States. As part of a refugee application, he filled out an I-590 form, which requires, among other things, applicants to disclose foreign military service.

Krstic contends that "someone wrote 'not served' in English" on the form. Federal officials, however, say that Krstic denied having served in the military "during a sworn, personal interview administered in Belgrade."

Krstic and his family were granted refugee status and admitted to the United States. They settled in the Portland area.

In 1999, the family applied to become lawful permanent residents. As part of the application, Krstic filled out an I-485 form, which also asks applicants to report any prior foreign military service. Krstic again did not disclose his service. He was issued an alien registration receipt card, also called a green card.

In 2005, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reported Krstic's military service to U.S. immigration authorities. Federal agents entered Krstic's home and interviewed him. He admitted to serving in the military but denied committing war crimes."

re: "War Crimes"

Olli at Olli In Munich ("a serial expat currently living in Munich") has some news relating to immigration fraud.

Money quote(s):

"Ivan Demjanjuk might soon be appearing in a courtroom in Munich charged with war crimes. Demjanjuk, originally from The Ukraine, was a Red Army soldier captured by the Germans in 1942 who then chose to ally himself with his captors. After the war Demjanjuk settled in Germany, but left in 1951 and moved to the US."

"His US citizenship, which he had lost some years before his extradition, was restored. The US Justice Department appealed against this on the grounds that Demjanjuk had indeed been a concentration camp guard, even if not the one believed by the Israeli prosecutors. The court agreed and removed his citizenship once more. Demjanjuk's final appeal against the decision was rejected by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeal in 2004. As a stateless person Demjanjuk was liable to deportation if a country could be found willing to take him. However, neither Ukraine not Poland - where his alleged crimes were perpetrated were willing either to take or to put him on trial."

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"(I)f Demjanjuk were acquitted I would assume that since he would have been deported rather than extradited and since he is no longer a US citizen the Germans would be stuck with him, either having to look after him until he dies or find another country willing to take him - which seems unlikely."