Storm Track Infiltration: The Religious Worker Visa Scam

From The Gathering Storm

Here we go again. Letting the camel’s nose into the tent. I mean, Islam is preaching peace – right?

Dozens of Pakistani immigrants who came to the United States posing as religious workers were arrested Wednesday, authorities said, as Homeland Security agents tried to close a commonly exploited avenue for illegal immigration. Immigrants who were supposed to be teaching or conducting religious ceremonies were arrested across the East Coast, where authorities said many worked as gas station attendants, taxi drivers, landscapers and factory workers.

I wonder what kind of mosque services they were holding there.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been scrutinizing the religious worker visa program, which a 2005 review found was rife with problems. Homeland Security officials found fraud in one of every three religious visas they reviewed. "What we see are religious institutions such as churches that may exist only on paper but are sponsoring people," ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said. "Our concern is we don't know who these people are. They're obviously not who they say they are and they don't have religious training."

Oh, doesn’t that make you feel secure? But any Muslim can claim to be a cleric in the religion of Islam.

In the report released last year, officials found cases where workers could not be found and addresses could not be verified. In one incident, the address on the visa application was found to have been used by a terrorist suspect, though Boyd said there was no indication of a terrorist threat in Wednesday's case.

Naaaw – they were just here to enjoy the many freedoms of an infidel nation.

He said the aliens paid large fees to get people or organizations to sponsor them for visas.

Like Al Qaeda, perhaps?