Current Events > ICE lawyer sentenced to four years in prison for stealing immigrant identities.

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https://lawandcrime.com/immigration/top-ice-lawyer-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-stealing-immigrants-identities/

In February of this year, Sanchez was charged with stealing the identities of seven immigrants.

Specifically, Sanchezs scheme involved opening credit cards and taking out loans using the personal information of undocumented immigrants who had been targeted by ICE and were undergoing immigration proceedings. This vulnerabilitybeing run through the byzantine U.S. immigration systemmade it difficult for the immigrants targeted to detect the theft.

Sanchezs use of stolen information was also charged as wire fraud over the various banks and other financial institutions who were taken advantage of during the scheme. After being caught, he resigned. Three days later, he took a plea deal admitting to all of the accusations against him. On Thursday, Sanchezs plea deal was finally signed off on by a federal judge.

While overseeing ICEs legal office office in Seattle, Sanchezs responsibilities bore directly on his criminal scheme. He was in charge of overseeing immigration removal cases in various states. Prosecutors said this made his targets particularly vulnerable given their status as deported or otherwise excludable.

The scheme lasted from 2013 to 2017. During this time, Sanchez was already being paid $162,000 per year by the federal government. His net worth hovered around $700,000. Still, he found the time to open bank accounts, utility service accounts and email accounts using names, birthdates, Social Security numbers and more that he stole from ICE databases. Then he created fake drivers licenses.

A court filing from June 12 details additional shocking behavior in furtherance of the scheme. According to prosecutors, Sanchez affixed his own photograph onto the forged identification documents using the information of male Victim Aliens. To forge female Victim Aliens identifications, Sanchez was even more brazen: he used the photograph of a murdered woman published in press accounts and the names of female Victim Aliens.

As part of his sentencing, Sanchez will be forced to pay $190,000 in restitution to the various aggrieved parties.

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I mean that's wrong but... how exactly are illegals getting credit cards and the like in the first place? Like, do the banks not ask for proof of legal residence over there?
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Honestly at this point we should just abolish ICE

another unnecessary government agency
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What a Trump thing to do. Death penalty
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Don't you need a social or something?
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This was necessary in order to save multiple cities from gang control.
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That guy is probably not an upstanding member of society.

Throw the pravda at him.
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1NfamousACE_2 posted...

Don't you need a social or something?

Immigrants can get an ITIN which can be used in place of a SSN.
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Only 4 years for this heinous shit
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Tmaster148 posted...

1NfamousACE_2 posted...

Don't you need a social or something?

Immigrants can get an ITIN which can be used in place of a SSN.

Never knew that
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