3 California attorneys were arrested and sentenced to prison as a result of immigration fraud. The attorneys are said to have orchestrated hundreds of false asylum claims. They mostly dealt with people of Romanian and Indian descent and filed hundreds of asylum applications containing fictitious stories of persecution, including false arrests, detention, torture, and even rape. Applications were also, oftentimes, supported by fraudulent and counterfeit medical records and affidavits. Some of the same stories were used and reused for various people.
For those of you who do not know, to be eligible for asylum, a person must show a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country. And those attorneys, basically "created" those fears for them in order, to make money and file their asylum claims.
I have to say to all those who ever asked me why so many asylum claims get denied... This is WHY... because of people, sometimes even attorneys, who file hundreds of petitions based on fraudulent evidence. That is exactly why all asylum applications are heavily scrutinized and it has become more and more difficult to get asylum status. As a result of instances like that, individuals, who do in fact suffer in their home countries are often denied asylum status, or in the alternative, must meet such an extraordinary high standard in order to prove that they were in fact a victim of persecution in their home country.
These attorneys were financially fined and sentenced to prison, with terms ranging from 30 months to 108 months.
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