ICE employee steals immigrants' personal data
A leading member of the US Immigration and Customs Police (ICE) was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing illegal immigrant identity cards. Former ICE Chief Counsel Rafael A. Sanchez of Seattle, Washington, pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft with aggravating circumstances.
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The Justice Department reported that 44-year-old Sanchez, who was responsible for immigration process in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, confessed to “intentionally developing a scheme to deceive foreigners at different stages of immigration proceedings with ICE,” CBS News.
Using personal information that identifies his victims, which Sanchez obtained from ICE's official computer databases and printed immigration documents, he forged identification documents such as social security cards and driving licenses. He used these documents to open credit and personal loans in their names, engage in financial manipulations and then transfer funds to himself.
Sanchez received about 190 thousands of US dollars using PayPal, Amazon, Square, Venmo and similar transaction processing services. All these funds he will have to return. The offender also forced three immigrants to act as his “sister” guarantors in 2014, 2015 and 2016 tax returns.
“Rafael Sanchez is trusted to ensure that our nation’s immigration laws are fairly enforced,” Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said in a statement. “Instead, Sanchez abused his trust and position with ICE to exploit his victims and line his own pockets.”
According to the Washington Post, Sanchez worked for ICE 17 for years. The court documents indicated that he had not committed any offenses before.
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