If Americans were really serious about reforming immigration they would stop blaming the illegal immigrants and put the onus where it belongs – on WASHINGTON.
If Americans were truly serious, they would elect a 100% brand new United States Congress and a new President who would drive a bulldozer through both the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) and the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.). While our soldiers are bleeding and dying in foreign lands to protect the homeland against terrorists who want nothing more than to enter the United States and do their dastardly deeds, high level administrators of those two aforementioned agencies have been accepting bribes to allow any illegal with $50,000 to become embedded in American society and obtain legal status and citizenship.
Take the case of just one high level government employee, Robert T. Schofield, 57, who recently pled guilty in a Virginia court to taking more than $600,000 in bribes, yet was originally charged with accepting more than $8.1 million in return for fraudulent green cards. Of the more than 200 illegal immigrants who received U.S. citizenship from Schofield, fewer than a dozen have been located. What are all the others up to at this very moment in time?
When we get smart enough to replace of 100% of the United States Congress, let’s consider keeping Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) who in July 2006, sent a letter to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of D.H.S. regarding the arrest of Mr. Schofield, demanding to know how “a man with this history was in a supervisory position in [USCIS], where he could exploit his position of trust to sell U.S. citizenship to the highest bidder?” (CitizensForEthics.org)
Those who want to claim that Robert T. Schofield was just ONE bad apple in the INS-DHS barrel of apples, are themselves sandy-headed ostriches. Mr. Schofield flaunted much of his chicanery in the open. In fact, it was his outrageous brazenness, not his criminality, that finally forced law enforcement to take action. Schofield had supervisors who could not have been ignorant of his modus operandi. American taxpayers need to ask themselves why. Why did those charged with overseeing the activities of Mr. Schofield’s supervisors look the other way and why was he promoted and further rewarded by his superiors, even after his criminalities and indiscretions were found out?
Common sense tells one that Robert T. Schofield is but the tip of the iceberg. It is an understatement to declare that “it’s nothing new.” The New York Times wrote about the corruption rife at I.N.S. in 1994: In Immigration Labyrinth, Corruption Comes Easily by STEPHEN ENGELBERG.
Up and down the East Coast, the word quickly spread through immigrant communities. Come to the Northern Virginia offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bring cash. Buy the right to live or work in the United States.
Smooth-talking middlemen took care of the details, bribing immigration service employees with gold jewelry, free vacations and cash-filled envelopes passed hand to hand in the aisles of a nearby department store. Ghanaians, Lebanese and Salvadorans, among others, flocked to what quickly became a multicultural bazaar. Most came from the Washington area, but others drove hundreds of miles and scribbled phony local addresses.
… “We let it happen,” one employee involved in the case said in a recent interview. “There was no supervision to tighten down on us, and we let it go real wild.”
Altogether, the I.N.S. said, they had fraudulently given more than 4,000 people permission to work and sold legal residency to 1,000 more immigrants who did not qualify.
In the cases of abuse described in 1994, the senior managers of I.N.S. claimed to be largely unaware of any abuse, insisting that only a small minority of the agency’s employees succumb to temptation, and that those who did take bribes were “entry-level employees — some earning barely more than the minimum wage.” That is not what Mr. Schofield was, nor his superiors who were complicit in his treachery.
For ten years the government had investigated numerous allegations that Schofield was on the take. In 1991, Schofield, as an I.N.S. special agent, botched investigation of an Asian brothel in Washington by engaging in an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with an informant. When he was demoted for ‘conduct unbecoming a government employee,’ he absconded to the Far East where he used his two government issued credit cards to support himself. How Schofield managed to legally return to Washington and whether he repaid American taxpayers for the $36,000 credit card fraud is clouded by bureaucratic murkiness, but return he did. He rose in the ranks, and when the new Department of Homeland Security took over I.N.S. functions in 2003, Robert T. Schofield surfaced as a supervisor tasked by higher ups with protecting the Homeland.
So let’s hear no more of elaborate regulatory schemes to be administered by these same congressmen, senators, presidential candidates and Robert T. Schofields. Schofield miscreants continue their betrayals in these government agencies; “civil servants” who are more interested in lining their pockets than in protecting their own homeland. It is shameful to say the least, when other, better Americans are putting their lives on the line to protect us from the evildoers.
“Immigration Official Pleads Guilty” - WaPo December 2006
The United States of America, historically a beacon of freedom for the world, has now discovered that it has no “Great Wall” anywhere in North America. The rush is on, as citizens everywhere are clamoring to build “The Great Gringo Wall” to keep out the Mexicans who are now walking across the open border. What do the Mexicans think about our plans? To say that they’re non-plussed is an understatement as President Vincente Fox has been telling his citizens that the time is coming when they will say “you’re not a real Mexican if you haven’t climbed the Great Gringo Wall.”
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