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New York.– An employee of the Dominican consulate was sentenced in a Manhattan
federal court to 20 months in prison for smuggling into the
country Dominicans who posed as members of his family, the site blogs.villagevoice.com reported.
While working as a clerk at the consulate, between October 2007 and July 2008, Francisco Estevez made an average of two trips per month to the Dominican Republic to recruit people who paid him US$10,000 to be smuggled into New York. In less than a year, he brought in 25 people, using fake passports and A-2 visas.
Because he had a diplomatic visa, Estevez and his family were able to travel in and out of the U.S. as often as they liked. They also bypassed security procedures - like having digital fingerprints taken and their photographs collected.
One one occasion, Estevez gave a woman his daughter's passport and accompanied her from the airport in Santo Domingo to Newark-Liberty International Airport, where she was picked up by family members and taken to the Bronx , prosecutors said.
It's not known whether the people Estevez smuggled are still living the country, or how immigration officials were tipped off to the scheme.
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and it does not cost $10,000 a head to cross the stream...
More like a grand
Being a Dominican diplomat means nothing. Most of these individuals lack qualifications for the job and are a total embarrassment to the country. Their assignment is typically in compensation for political campaigning and cronyism.
I've personally spoken to a vice-consul who was not very intelligent and spoke like a "campesino", in improper and street Spanish [Dominican]. You know, terms like Nueva Yoi. They produced a "power of attorney" document for me that was full of error and wouldn't correct it.
Anyway, this situation doesn't shock me at all. It is simply further evidence of how we are regressing to Neanderthal status, facilitated by present gov.
Y no era Pa'Lante Que Ibamos!
Listen to some of these posters and you might get the idea that the burro was better gag gag. And lets always remember that Balaguer made it on 8000 pesos a month as president jajaja.