Ethiopian refugee arrested in Virginia, government
says he lied to become US citizen, by Ann Corcoran 8/19 /18.
Here we go again! It sure looks like the Trump Justice Department
has launched a campaign to ferret out those who fraudulently got in to the US
claiming they were refugees. (Reminds me to start watching DOJ press
announcements on a daily basis!)
Michael
Patrick Leahy at Breitbart has
penned another post within days of telling us about the Iraqi refugee arrested in California. In that case the government
alleges that the Iraqi was a member of ISIS when he arrived here from Turkey.
Here
we learn that the DOJ is alleging that this refugee was not abused and
persecuted, but was himself a human rights abuser.
Report:
Ethiopian Refugee Arrested for Fraudulent U.S. Citizenship, Was Interrogator
During ‘Red Terror’
Special agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested an
Ethiopian refugee after he was indicted on Tuesday on felony charges of
allegedly fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
See
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qey_Shibir Image is from 2016
film: https://mg.co.za/article/2016-03-29-new-ethiopian-film-addresses-red-terror-campaign-of-mengistu-reign
“Mergia Negussie Habteyes, 58, is charged in an indictment, which was returned by a
grand jury for the Eastern District of Virginia on Aug. 14, alleging that Negussie told a series of lies
to U.S. immigration authorities in the course of obtaining authority to enter
the United States as a refugee, subsequently obtaining lawful
permanent-resident status, and ultimately obtaining U.S. citizenship,” The Department of Justice(DOJ)
said in a statement released on Friday:
Specifically, the indictment
asserts that, when he applied for naturalization in the United States, Negussie
falsely stated that he never persecuted persons because of their political
opinion, and he failed to disclose that he had committed a crime or offense for
which he was not arrested.
In fact, according to the
indictment, Negussie served as a civilian interrogator in the Higher 3 prison
in Ethiopia in the late 1970s, during a period known as the Red Terror. In that
role, Negussie is alleged to have participated in the persecution, through
brutality, of individuals imprisoned because of their political opinion.
Additionally, Negussie falsely
stated that he never gave false or misleading information to any U.S.
government official while applying for any immigration benefit and that he
never lied to U.S. immigration authorities to gain entry or admission into the
United States and to obtain immigration benefits.
News
of the arrest of the Ethiopian refugee in Virginia on felony charges follows
the announcement this week of the arrest of an Iraqi refugee and alleged
Islamic State murderer in California, who was charged with lying on his refugee
application and now faces an extradition hearing based on a warrant for the
2014 of an Iraqi police officer issued by an Iraqi judge in May of this year.
The Washington Post has
a short article yesterday, but doesn’t give us any
additional information.
I
want to know exactly when he was admitted to the US as a refugee. I would
also love to know which resettlement agency placed him, but that is something
we rarely ever hear. An exception is the recent case of the Iraqi who shot a police officer in Colorado
where we learned it was Lutheran Social Services that was his caretaker upon
arrival.
By
the way, over the years we have brought in a huge number of refugees from
Ethiopia and even one of the nine contractors is the Ethiopian Community
Development Council
(head quarters located in Virginia).
This
post is filed in my ‘Crimes’ category along
with 2,000 plus other stories involving refugee and immigrant crimes here and
around the world.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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