Earlier today the Dept of Justice announced charges against 11 defendants in a fraudulent marriage scheme to obtain U.S. green cards. The defendants and co-conspirators were mainly of Chinese origin.
DOJ Press Release – A two-count indictment was unsealed today charging 11 individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China. Some individuals paid up to $100,000 per sham marriage, according to the indictment.
“This Department of Justice is rooting out fraud everywhere — including in our immigration system,” said Attorney General Todd Blanche. “The individuals who were arrested today allegedly orchestrated elaborate schemes to illegally obtain citizenship for foreign nationals through sham marriages. Schemes like this are a deliberate affront to the United States and our laws and will not be tolerated under the Trump Administration.”
“The defendants and their co-conspirators allegedly operated a nationwide and international, multimillion-dollar marriage fraud scheme, using participants to abuse United States immigration laws for their own profit,” said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York. “Today’s arrests have dismantled a central component of one of the largest marriage fraud schemes charged in United States history. As this prosecution shows, we and our law enforcement partners will relentlessly pursue those seeking to corrupt and exploit our nation’s lawful immigration system.”
“Anyone willing to lie, cheat or steal their way to legal immigration status is a direct threat to America’s national security,” said Director Joseph B. Edlow of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is aggressively pursuing marriage fraud schemes and the criminal organizations and ringleaders who profit from them. USCIS will continue to expose fraud, defend the rule of law, and ensure immigration status is reserved for those who truly qualify.”
“As alleged, this decade-long scheme turned marriage fraud into an international business model arranging countless sham marriages and causing hundreds of fraudulent Green Card applications to be submitted to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,” said Acting Executive Associate Director John Condon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). “Through the Homeland Security Task Force, HSI and our partners will continue to dismantle criminal networks that undermine the rule of law, exploit federal laws, and profit from fraud.” (read more)
Great start, Blanche. And, btw, how’s Elaine Cho doing?
Deport any and all caught in this fraud over the last 10 years.
And all the damn anchor babies that came with it. Or Barrett can adopt them all and reimburse tax payers.
I agree 100%! Any child that was born in a marriage that was fraudulent should immediately have their US citizenship revoked with no possibility of ever having it restored! Fraud vitiates everything! At least it used to when we had a functioning justice system!
Wonderful thought and I agree but ACB said it doesn’t matter. Born here is born here regardless of legal status.
Nobody considered this level of duplicity when our laws were designed. At that time travel to the US was a left threatening ocean voyage and it was like a funeral saying goodbye to family and friends knowing that most likely you would never see them again. I’m not in favor of changing our Constitution or other laws easily but this situation is a matter of national security. I will refrain from saying what I think of her and others as it seems futile.
LIFE threatening not “left!” Yes I proofread – exactly when did the ubiquitous AI alter what I wrote? AI, making life tedious EVERYDAY!
ACB, another proof that women should not be on the Supreme Court! We presently have 4 and all of them are idiots! ACB can’t recognize this type of scam, and Jackson is looking at anatomy books of women and her own privates, trying to decide if hers matches the pictures!
How about the last 50 years?
Obtain records of all false filings….deport them all. Arrest the US nationals who married them.
Hey SCOTUS, you paying attention?
I doubt it. Those hens are plotting their next move.
Now do the Somalis, including Ilan Omar.
Starting with Ilan Omar.
now that they got that under their belt
do election fraud next
Sorry,Bud… DOJ is too busy arresting all of this “low hanging fruit” and just doesn’t have time for the big stuff like election fraud…
maybe reallocate some agents currently assigned to the unlicensed operation of lemonade stands by notorious rings of juvenile delinquents
A one-week legislative shift in China concerning capital and talent control, implemented through two coordinated regulatory strikes by Beijing in July: Goods may leave. Money and minds may not.
https://knowledge.dlapiper.com/dlapiperknowledge/globalemploymentlatestdevelopments/2026/chinas-new-exit-and-entry-regulation-what-multinational-companies-need-to-know
https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/gms-flash-alert/2026/flash-alert-2026-204.html
Deport all ChiComs
Unfortunately the Asian women are far better than the nutjob leftist we have roaming around America with tattoos and colored hair. TO be honest I know some really classy Asian women….. I’d take one over any American women 9 times out of 10.
We’re supposed to clap and bark like seals at this message. Meanwhile, the serious criminals and their crimes that dwarf the scope of this go unpunished and unabated. What is a DOJ for, if not that? What a mockery of law and order and justice.
I really am saddened to think where all of this lack of criminal accountability is going to lead our country to. It’s not going to be pretty when the accounting comes about.
We should all be praying that our legal system metes proper justice before it is too late.
As much as I’d like to agree, I believe it’s already too late. Prepare wisely.
Yep, Larry… You are “on target”…
Didn’t you get the memo? According to the legislative branch & in particular the do less than nothing Senate, DoJ is not allowed to prosecute anyone of a different political party.
Free passes for all crimes committed by all “political enemies!”
Yep, the DOJ is really just the guardians of the establishment, protecting them and making sure no harm comes to them and allowing them to continue in their ways. Kinda like the praetorian guard of old. It’s disgusting.
and the Somalians?
Oh Hell, Racer… Didn’t you see ICE run like Hell out of Minnesomalia? the somalians are “home free”…
Now close down the birth tourism homes.
I suspect many of those are timeshares and have been for decades.
In the light of all this fraud how can the Supreme Court not rule against ending birthright citizenship in many instances?
They knew this was going on. They didn’t & still don’t care.
I think the Court does care, but it is their job to rule on constitutionality, not legality. I think there are legislative remedies possible, but Congress has to give those to us.
Only We the People can fix this! 🇺🇲
Kinda looks a little bit like SCOTIS is
legislating law on their own.
MAGA
God Bless
Becky
These leftist marxist demons will stop at nothing to denigrate traditional marriage/family.
How about going after the U. S. citizens/spouses who aided and abetted the illegal scheme. Now that would quickly put an end to it.
Yep. No different than being the knowing employer of illegal aliens – who deserve to be prosecuted.
Tip of the iceberg.
Even smaller than that. Maybe a snowflake on the tip.
Terry McAuliffe, Hugh Rodham, and all the grifters at Greentech Automotive should have been convicted 11 years ago for complicity in EB5 visa fraud.
Correction: Tony Rodham, not Hugh. The pair of Hillary Clinton’s siblings unaffectionately referred to as “the brothers Rodham.”
Prosecute all the fraudsters, Mr. Blanche. Eleven indictments is a start, but certainly doesn’t look or sound like much justice! Go after everyone and the 100 million usd.
What annoys me is how these DOJ guys are so shocked at discovering this is going on, and break their arms patting themselves on the back for uncovering it.
For the last 3 years I’ve worked with a woman who married a guy from China and she bragged “he didn’t speak a word of English on the day they were married”. The first thing I thought when she told me 3 years ago is that she was being paid for committing immigration fraud.
Note to the DOJ, this Obama immigration scam is perfectly legal:
“US territory turned tropical maternity ward has produced thousands of ‘American’ babies for parents living in China”
“Pregnant Chinese women have turned a tropical paradise into a maternity ward — pumping out babies who automatically become US citizens daily.”
“The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, has been flooded with so-called “birth tourists” since 2009 when then-president Barack Obama introduced a visa-waiver program for Chinese nationals.”
“China-watchers estimate about 1,000 companies offer birth tourism to the Northern Mariana Islands, other US overseas territories and even the US mainland. They claim a gob-smacking 1.5 million American babies are being raised in China by Chinese parents who’ve participated in birth tourism.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/us-territory-where-thousands-of-chinese-moms-give-birth-to-american-babies/
Andie MacDowell was in a movie portraying this scenario with Gerard Depardieu.
Lots of movies romanticize the invaders.
All crime is romanticized by Hollyweird
Obama was one reason why I left the US and decided not to come back. He promised to “Fundamentally Change America”.
He did too…. the American women are nuts now….. They bought his lies hook line and sinker.
The question of the children of the non citizens. Not necessarily from the fake spouse. Remains. Are they automatically U.S. citizens.
Yes, they are US Citizens if birthed on US Soil.
The Supreme Court ruling stated that the legal status of the birth mother had no impact on the status of the Child.
In the majority opinion it was stated that the legislature had to pass laws and clarify existing laws to change this opinion.
Paid up to $100,000 to stay in the US.
Kinda make me feel good about being an American. People all over the world still chasing that dream.
Are people elsewhere paying to slip inside the borders of _______? They’re probably running that
scam in Australia, but what about out of the way areas.
Anyone bribing border guards in Ghana for a pass into Burkina?
Only 11? More like 1,100,000!
What are they going to do with the “thousands” of anchor babies? Denaturalize? That’s the next announcement, right? Right?
Good start.
11 down; 9,999,989 to go.
* THE DOJ ARRESTED 11 DEFENDANTS FOR CHINESE MARRIAGE FRAUD SCHEMES
SEN. McCONNELL WAS RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE DESPITE HAVING DIED A MONTH AGO
Lawyers… not just any ambulance chasers .. immigration lawyers paid by the US taxpayer.. cut the purse strings and see how quickly much of the grift clears
Only 11?!? Every marriage they arranged should be annulled, all naturalized spouses stripped of citizenship, and all of them, including their children, should be deported.
Now do something to stop birth tourism.
STAT.
It’s getting to where this stuff writes itself…
We wouldn’t have this problem if American women were worthwhile….. most of them are psychotic.
Come to Maine to shut down all the illegal Chinese marijuana grow houses as well.
Very good.
get all scumbags deport forever and who fake marriage to them changed also,
scumbag omar too,
why do we let anyone from china in anymore…all i see is a long list of espionage and scams happening while we educate millions of chinese students in our communist indoctrination centers..i mean colleges and universities..trying to build a better communists? this goes the same for islamic nation students once again proving our “government” is not looking out for the national interest, just their own monied interests