Fear of deportation by Unjustice Immigration System

Iranian natives Hessameddin Norani and wife Sedige Khazravi, who for nearly 20 years have owned a small convenience store in upstate New York, now fear possible deportation if their request for asylum is rejected next month.

The owners of Buffalo's City Grocery, whose request for asylum has been passed between courts for years, told The Buffalo News they fear religious persecution if they are deported to Iran. The Immigration Court hearing that will decide their fate is scheduled for October 28.

Norani, who is Jewish, and Khazravi, who is Muslim, married years before Iran passed a civil code banning marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men.

Iranian-born James Arani—Norani's attorney—told The Buffalo News, "I feel they will be persecuted upon their return to Iran because of their interreligious marriage, the stance of the government against Jews in general and the apostasy law in Iran, which would subject the so-called sinner to death by stoning,"

Norani, who speaks little English, said he has never been a burden on the U.S. government and asked only to remain in his adopted county.

"I worked hard, paid taxes, opened my business with my own money and never took one penny from the government," Norani said with his son, Hamed, translating. "I want to stay in the country. I like my freedom, and I like being around my kids and grandson. I'm not asking for much. If I leave, I would never come back. My life would be done."

Norani, who is 68 and has heart and other health problems, is the lead applicant in the couple's application for asylum; his wife will be subject to whatever decision is rendered. If the couple is deported, it would result in a second separation from Hamed (pronounced Ha-med), and his twin brother Hamid (pronounced Ha-meed), who are 38.

The brothers initially were sent to the United States on a tourist visa with the blessing of the Iranian government when they were 14, so doctors could examine a suspected cancerous growth Hamid had on his leg. While in the States, their parents decided to have them legally adopted by an uncle to avoid being drafted into the Iranian army, which at the time was at war with Iraq. Their father couldn't leave Tehran until 1988, and it took their mother another five years to receive a U.S. visa.

Hamed, who lives upstairs from his parents with his Iranian wife of two years, is a recent graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles. Hamid, who lives in suburban Buffalo, sells pacemakers.

"The most important years of our life, we never got to spend with our parents," Hamed told The Buffalo News. "We were going to Williamsville East High School, and while everyone had their mothers and fathers [with them], we never did," he said.

Hamed said the family has used up its savings trying to keep his father in the country, spending more than $200,000 on attorneys to no avail. "After 18 years of going through hell, this has got to come to an end," he said.

For years, their case has been sent back and forth between Immigration Court, Border Immigration Appeals and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

One of the issues of the case is whether Norani is, in fact, Jewish; a matter the couple claims will lead to their persecution in Iran. Norani claims his birth certificate identifies his mother was Jewish, and that the Farsi word for Jewish appears on it.

The couple also has a letter from an Iranian rabbi, based in Long Island, supporting an affidavit from an Israeli Jew who claims to be related to Norani. Norani attends Saranac Synagogue in North Buffalo, and a congregant, Kallman Sull, has written a letter of support for Norani, urging "a tragedy be averted."
Vince Caruso, owner of nearby Caruso Imports, said it would be an injustice for the couple to be deported after all these years.

"They are very polite people, good people. A lot of people know them and feel [their deportation] would be an injustice," Caruso said.

Illegals draining Social Services. A lie or a Lie?

Another case were I exposed the unethical and Illegal behavior from Companies. They thought they were going to get away with it and so they refused to change their illegal practices and kept alienating persons of conscience. Every hospital will be full of stories of heroism and mistakes blaming the other. And This is not about accidents, or complicated book keeping or reporting procedures. It is about white collar crime; crime at such a level that it has been difficult for low paid Federal employees to get their minds around the tens of millions of dollars involved and too complex for the news media to grasp. Finally, it is starting to unravel. Bring on the indictments not the Undocumented Immigrants.

CoxHealth has agreed to pay more than $60 million to settled a False Claims Act lawsuit in which the company was charged with overbilling Medicare. CoxHealth actually stole more money that they are being required to return to the U.S. Government because as federal agents began calculating the damages, it soon became clear Cox could not pay without going under

CoxHealth's $60 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department will cost the health system an extra $3.07 million when the bill is paid in full with interest in five years.

That's according to a government document filed with the settlement agreement Tuesday.
The money will compensate the Medicare trust fund for a portion of the payments that Cox improperly claimed and received, the government said. The trust fund is the pool of taxpayer money from which the Medicare program pays hospitals, providers and beneficiaries.

Cox will pay $35 million immediately, then $5 million each year for five years with 4 percent interest on the deferred amounts. Cox officials say they already have the money in various reserve accounts.

The $60 million settlement "is considerably less than the alleged improper Medicare payments to Cox," U.S. Attorney John Wood said this week.

Federal officials agreed on that amount because that's what Cox could afford to pay without damaging its ability to provide medical care to the community, he said.

Officials won't divulge the estimated total amount of those alleged improper payments
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel May said it became clear as federal agents began calculating alleged claims, "There's no way Cox would ever be able to pay without going under."

She added, "That's when we switched gears to an 'ability-to-pay' posture."

The goal was to find a balance, May said.

"It is a priority for us to protect taxpayer dollars. Eventually it comes to practicality. You can't run a hospital out of business. That does not serve your community at all," she said. "It's the important art of weighing and balancing the need to protect the Medicare Trust Fund and the community's need for health care."

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Cox billed and received an undisclosed amount of Medicare payments it should not have gotten, and alleges it violated federal laws by providing kickbacks to physicians of the for-profit Ferrell-Duncan Clinic Inc.

The government is still negotiating a settlement with the physician-owned clinic, the government confirmed. Likewise, May said, its criminal investigation into alleged Medicare fraud at Cox continues.

How does a $60 million settlement compare with others?

According to Patrick Burns, spokesman with Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers Against Fraud, the Cox settlement will be among the 20 largest settlements this year.

Burns' group is a nonprofit, public interest organization that aims to combat fraud against the federal government through the promotion and use of the Federal False Claims Act.

The settlement range is a low of about $10,000 up to one large system's cumulative $1.7 billion, he said. However, $900 million is the largest for a single defendant, he said.

The U.S. Department of Justice handles about 100 cases of the 300 to 400 false claims cases filed every year, Burns said. About 80 percent of those 100 are alleged health care fraud, he said.

Half of those 100 cases, he added, will be settled for less than $2 million

Her Shadow become a nightmare do to a Dysfunctional Immigration System

A Newport News woman who faced deportation Thursday for a decade-old crime has received a one-year extension a day after being pardoned by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. Kathryn Anne Ingleson, 31, found out Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had granted a request to postpone her deportation, her attorney said. Earlier Wednesday, a Newport News Circuit Court judge amended Ingleson's conviction for credit card theft to credit card fraud, which is not a deportable offense in Virginia. The action came a day after Kaine gave Ingleson a simple pardon _ or official forgiveness of the crime--and expressed his support for her to remain in the country and in Virginia. "Kathryn's excitement and glee and that of her family over these developments is tempered by the knowledge that she has yet to obtain a dismissal of the deportation order that is still pending against her," said Ingleson's attorney, Joseph Peter Drennan of Alexandria. "However, with these developments one cannot help but be optimistic

Ingleson moved to the United States from England with her parents when she was 7 as a lawful resident but failed to become a naturalized citizen. In 1997 she was convicted of stealing credit cards from customers at the store where she worked to buy a Christmas tree, some ornaments and other items valued at about $340. She paid restitution and completed probation.

When she returned from visiting a relative in England in 2003, Ingleson was arrested and placed in removal proceedings. Her appeals have been denied by immigration officials and the courts and a deportation date set for Aug. 14.

Drennan said U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman's office informed Ingleson on Wednesday that ICE had agreed to stay her deportation for one year. She is expected to meet with department officials Friday to learn the details.

The next step is to take the pardon and the amended conviction to the Board of Immigration Appeals to ask that it reopen Ingleson's case and vacate the removal order, Drennan said.

Ingleson was an 18-year-old single mother when she stole the credit cards in 1996. She confessed when confronted about it, but wasn't prosecuted until the following year after a law took effect that expanded the categories of deportable offenses.

As part of a plea deal, Ingleson pleaded guilty to two counts of credit card theft and two counts of credit card fraud were dropped.

Newport News Circuit Court Judge H. Vincent Conway ruled Wednesday that credit card fraud was a more fitting conviction. In Virginia, credit card fraud is not a so-called "aggravating felony" that triggers deportation.

"Judge Conway's decision today constitutes another step along that long and intricate process that we are pursuing in order to have Kathryn relieved of the specter of deportation so that she can get on with her life," Drennan said.

Since her conviction, Ingleson has worked at a packaging company, kept a clean record and raised her two children, ages 18 and 9, he said.

After-hours messages left for officials with ICE and Wittman's office were not immediately returned.

Drennan said Ingleson would love to become a naturalized citizen, although she fears the conviction that remains on her record may hamper that.

"She earnestly and fervently desires to become an American citizen," he said. "The issue of whether she will be in a position to do that is yet another legal challenge that needs to be met, but again we are cautiously optimistic."

ICE Preventing Terror from abroad but creating Terror from within

The lives of Amal and Jasmine Suleiman were changed forever. At the crack of dawn in what can only be described as a SWAT style paramilitary operation, officers from Immigration Customs Enforcement {ICE} stormed the home of the twin sisters. The twins were born in Texas on July 9, 2001.

Suddenly the twins were forced to view automatic weapons being pointed at their parents and brother. Strange men were seen yelling at the top of their lungs. Their otherwise clean home was being messed up by these strangers. Used to their mother dressing them, they did not know what to think when their older brother helped them get dressed. The twins had never seen their parents cry and they had great fear as both father and mother were crying. But nothing prepared them for the sight of seeing their father and brother handcuffed like criminals.

The twins had no idea as they left their home that morning that they were but a few hours from even more terror. Despite being told by ICE that the family would remain together, the twins were told they could not stay with their parents or brother. Each family member was given a few minutes with the twins to say goodbye before they were ushered out of the holding area. The twins were now screaming at the top of their lungs. They did not want to go.

Their Uncle was kind enough to take the twins into his home. Otherwise the twins would have been placed with Child Protective Services and put in foster care. They were scared and wanted to be with their parents and brother. This did not happen for the next 60 days. When they were united the joy was short as the twins learned they were moving to Jordan. All the twins wanted to do was to go to their home in Arlington, Texas.

The twins were told everything would be OK for them in Jordan. False promises for the twins, because they were citizens of the United States who had grown up and gone to school in an orderly society. The forced separation is still fresh in the minds of the twins. The twins refuse to leave the side of their parents for any reason. This includes going outside to play.

The twins clearly remember the words of ICE telling their parents how if the parents fought deportation the children would be put up for adoption. Mother and Father were kept from one another and ICE told each parent a different story of what the other had said. The duress at this moment of time was unbearable. How does a parent cope with the idea of having to abandon their children? Is there any decent parent that would even contemplate such an idea?

Little children were being used to make sure the policy of the United States Government, whether right or wrong, was carried out. The concept enacted by Congress of “family unity” was being completely ignored. The Suleiman family concluded that the family must remain intact at all costs. No government was going to separate their family.

The United States Government was not concerned with the particulars of this family. All ICE cared about was getting this case closed. In the details lay the horrible truths of what was being done to this family.

This story has been played out thousands of times by ICE. Countless Citizens forced to exile their country of birth because of September 11, 2001. We were a kinder people before that time. We prevent terror from abroad by creating terror from within. Just ask Amal and Jasmine Suleiman

When we are talking about Tax evasion, Identity Theft. What comes to your mind?

Undocumented Immigrants right!!!!! Sorry to disappointed you. You are Wrong. Ignorance remains the powerful weapons against our Society. Would his punishment fit his crime? His sentence 5 months in prison and 3 years in supervised release. When Undocumented Immigrants has been more than 6 months in Jail, torn apart from their families, and ending up most of the cases in deportation just for searching a better life.

Robert M. MacLafferty, age 46, of Portland, Tennessee was sentenced January 29th to serve 5 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. His sentence also included the requirement to pay restitution to the IRS of $37 plus thousand.

According to the US Attorney’s news release:

MacLafferty pled guilty on October 12, 2007, to five counts of income tax evasion. During his plea hearing, MacLafferty admitted that he earned income which required him to file federal income tax returns for years 1996 through 2003, however, he failed to file such a return in each of those years. MacLafferty also admitted that he had adjusted gross income totaling $227,993 from 2000 to 2003. During this period of time, MacLafferty provided false documents to his employer claiming he was not a citizen of the United States and therefore not liable to pay federal income taxes. MacLafferty also admitted that after the Internal Revenue Service filed a federal tax lien against his residence in Sumner County, he quit claimed his interest in this property and another property to his wife.

Enforcing the Law doesn't give Authority to Violating Human and Civil rights.!!!!

Enforcing the Law doesn't give Authority to Violating Human and Civil rights.!!!!!!


Immigration Laws continue to spreads as an Inhumane Laws violating peoples Human and Civil rigths. There is a lot of cases of pregnant woman who's lost the fetus or unborn baby do to the unfairly and inhumane treatment for their conditions.

Lawyers Say Fetus of Deported Pregnant Woman Considered Citizen Under Unborn Victims of Violence Act

Lawyers for a pregnant woman who was deported earlier this month have said that she should be allowed to return to the United States because her 32-week-gestation fetus -- which was conceived in the United States -- is guaranteed equal protection under criminal law as a result of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 and therefore could be eligible for U.S. citizenship rights, the AP/Seattle Times reports. Maria Christina Rubio was deported on July 16 after immigration officials determined that her residency request had been denied two years ago and that she previously had been deported after illegally entering the United States. In addition, immigration officials last week denied Rubio's request for a humanitarian visa to return to the United States because of pregnancy complications that are putting the health of her fetus at risk; Rubio was hospitalized during her fifth month of pregnancy and has reported severe stomach pains throughout her pregnancy, according to Luis Carrillo, Rubio's husband's attorney. Carrillo said that because Rubio's fetus would be viable outside the womb, it should be treated as a U.S. citizen because the Unborn Victims of Violence Act grants a fetus equal protection under criminal law (Wides, AP/Seattle Times, 7/29). President Bush in April signed the act, which makes it a separate crime to injure a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime against a pregnant woman. The legislation applies only to federal crimes of violence, crimes committed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice or crimes committed on federal land (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 6/1). "The child was conceived in the United States and would have been born in the United States except that the mother was deported," Carrillo said, adding, "Through no part of his own, the unborn baby is in Mexico." According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson Virginia Kice, the U.S. Constitution defines a citizen as "[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States," not "all persons who were conceived in the United States" (AP/Seattle Times, 7/27).
Similar Case In May, U.S. District Judge Scott Wright in Missouri temporarily prohibited the deportation of a pregnant Mexican woman who had falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, saying that her fetus is a U.S. citizen and may be protected under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Wright ruled that Myrna Dick, who was married to a U.S. citizen, could remain in the United States temporarily and told the prosecution and defense teams to prepare for a possible trial (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 6/1). Lawyers for the U.S. attorney's office in Missouri had argued that although a fetus may be protected under criminal law, the statute does not restrict the government's immigration authority, according to the AP/Times. Although the Missouri case does not set a legal precedent, immigration attorneys said it may provide them with a "new angle" in deportation cases, according to the AP/Times. "You can say this argument is a stretch, but these are the types of arguments that attorneys have to make to get into court," Alan Diamante, an advising attorney on the Rubio case, said. Carillo said he is considering filing a suit against ICE for unlawful deportation of Rubio (AP/Seattle Times, 7/27).

IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IS INHUMANE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL.!!!!!!!!

IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IS INHUMANE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



A PREGNANT CHINESE woman facing deportation lost her twin fetuses after immigration officials ignored her pleas for a doctor at Kennedy Airport, an elected city official and her lawyer charged. Zhen Xing Jiang, 34, of Philadelphia, who has been in the United States Undocumented for a decade, was being deported Tuesday when she complained of stomach and back pain, according to City Councilman John Liu (D-Queens). Customs officers denied her request for help, said Liu, who visited Jiang at Jamaica Hospital the next day. "This is cruel and it is atrocious what these officers did," Liu said. "What kind of law enforcement can just stand there as a pregnant woman is crying and in pain?" Jiang, who was discharged, could not be reached for comment. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials declined to discuss the circumstances involving Jiang's miscarriage, but released a statement saying her deportation was delayed for "medical reasons that were addressed immediately." "Once she is cleared medically, efforts to effectuate her repatriation will resume," the statement said. "She's traumatized by the experience," said her attorney, Michael Sommi