Story by Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner
Some of Chicago’s crimes are merely widespread immigration fraud
You may think that Chicago is a haven of violent crime. But wouldn’t you feel silly to learn that some of those documented crimes were merely fabricated for the purpose of immigration fraud?
A Chicago man by the name of Parth Nayi organized hundreds of fake robberies in Chicago to help noncitizens acquire immigration visas. The visas in question are “U visas,” which are granted to noncitizen victims of certain crimes if they assist law enforcement in investigations. The incentive, of course, is to allow people who are not in the country legally to come forward with knowledge of criminal acts without fearing deportation — the same logic Democratic politicians use when justifying the existence of sanctuary cities.
So, in a sanctuary city such as Chicago and in a country that incentivizes entrepreneurship, Nayi turned U visas into a business. Nayi charged people between $5,000 and $30,000 to be “robbed,” paying business owners a cut to use their businesses as public places for documentable “crimes.” He then organized fake robberies, making the noncitizens paying him appear to be crime victims and allowing them to be certified by police as eligible for a U visa.
It all seemingly went swimmingly until one of the actors shot a store employee during one such staged robbery. Gun safety was evidently not emphasized on the set of Nayi’s fake crimes.
Who could have guessed that the U visa would be exploited? Likely anyone who paid attention. Since the visa is designed for “victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,” there was a clear incentive to stage fake crimes.
Some Democratic politicians even abused the system, with the Democratic sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, distributing U visas to the illegal immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). You may recall that some liberal pundits accused DeSantis of “human trafficking” for that maneuver. Thus, amnesty for the illegal immigrants must be in order.
The U visa program was well-intentioned, but good intentions are often exploited by those with ill intentions. In this case, those ill-intentioned parties happened to be illegal immigrants hoping to defraud the system, several Chicagoans happy to waste police resources for money, and Democratic politicians looking for excuses for amnesty. Those are the people around whom immigration laws and visa exemptions must be crafted.
You may think that Chicago is a haven of violent crime. But wouldn’t you feel silly to learn that some of those documented crimes were merely fabricated for the purpose of immigration fraud?
A Chicago man by the name of Parth Nayi organized hundreds of fake robberies in Chicago to help noncitizens acquire immigration visas. The visas in question are “U visas,” which are granted to noncitizen victims of certain crimes if they assist law enforcement in investigations. The incentive, of course, is to allow people who are not in the country legally to come forward with knowledge of criminal acts without fearing deportation — the same logic Democratic politicians use when justifying the existence of sanctuary cities.
So, in a sanctuary city such as Chicago and in a country that incentivizes entrepreneurship, Nayi turned U visas into a business. Nayi charged people between $5,000 and $30,000 to be “robbed,” paying business owners a cut to use their businesses as public places for documentable “crimes.” He then organized fake robberies, making the noncitizens paying him appear to be crime victims and allowing them to be certified by police as eligible for a U visa.
It all seemingly went swimmingly until one of the actors shot a store employee during one such staged robbery. Gun safety was evidently not emphasized on the set of Nayi’s fake crimes.
Who could have guessed that the U visa would be exploited? Likely anyone who paid attention. Since the visa is designed for “victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,” there was a clear incentive to stage fake crimes.
Some Democratic politicians even abused the system, with the Democratic sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, distributing U visas to the illegal immigrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). You may recall that some liberal pundits accused DeSantis of “human trafficking” for that maneuver. Thus, amnesty for the illegal immigrants must be in order.
The U visa program was well-intentioned, but good intentions are often exploited by those with ill intentions. In this case, those ill-intentioned parties happened to be illegal immigrants hoping to defraud the system, several Chicagoans happy to waste police resources for money, and Democratic politicians looking for excuses for amnesty. Those are the people around whom immigration laws and visa exemptions must be crafted.
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