Asylum-fraud crackdown is another key step in fixing the US immigration system
In yet another crucial crackdown on fraud, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is at last going after lawyers who file blatantly bogus asylum claims — another too-long tolerated abuse of immigration laws. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a notice to fine attorney Suraj Raj Singh, who runs a nationwide immigration practice representing mostly Indian asylum seekers.
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In yet another crucial crackdown on fraud, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is at last going after lawyers who file blatantly bogus asylum claims — another too-long tolerated abuse of immigration laws. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a notice to fine attorney Suraj Raj Singh, who runs a nationwide immigration practice representing mostly Indian asylum seekers. Alleging that Singh filed 118 cut-and-paste documents across 54 immigration cases, the agency is seeking the maximum fine — nearly $500,000. A month earlier, ICE similarly fined attorney Vinod Doddamani over $250,000, alleging he filed 64 fraudulent documents in 32 asylum cases.
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- In yet another crucial crackdown on fraud, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is at last going after lawyers who file blatantly bogus asylum claims — another too-long tolerated abuse of immigration laws. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week issued a notice to fine attorney Suraj Raj Singh, who runs a nationwide immigration practice representing mostly Indian asylum seekers.
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