Citizenship and Immigration Services said that in investigating those cases, it found 275 cases of “suspected fraud.” Of those, 42 cases were referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement or people were given notices to appear in court for immigration proceedings, USCIS said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Some of the troubling cases the agency said it found included that of an immigrant who was alleged to have taken advantage of an elderly U.S. citizen in a case that involved threats and “severe neglect” and that of an immigrant who was alleged to have admitted to officers she committed marriage fraud only a few hours after having sworn in in immigration interview that her marriage was legitimate, Edlow said. The policy could also affect people who arrived in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act, known as Dreamers, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose legal status is in jeopardy after the Trump administration moved to cancel temporary legal pathways instituted during the Biden administration, the experts said.
Author: Daniella Silva
Published at: 2025-10-01 22:40:02
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