USCCB Cloaks The Residuals Of The Peculiar Institution Of Trafficking Tiny Humans - Again

Registered Residuals of the Peculiar Institution
U.S. Trademark of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
for Trafficking Tiny Humans

The USCCB is not in a good place right now, simple because they just refuse to stop cloaking the residuals of the peculiar institution when it comes to trafficking tiny humans through their private, state contracts.

Why does the USCCB refuse to stop trafficking tiny humans, you ask?

Well, it is because they are stealin' the children, land & vote.

Gotta have a Public Private Partner-ship when it comes to privateering tiny humans.


These vile creatures have no souls because they cloak the horrors of the industry of child welfare.... but I know what they do... and it is not good...

Praise the lord.

#Time2AuditGod

#maytheheavensfall

President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Appoints Four New Members of National Review Board for the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People

WASHINGTON - Four new members have been appointed to serve on the National Review Board (NRB) by Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The NRB advises the bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People and was established as part of the Charter for Protection of Children and Young People, a comprehensive set of procedures established and adopted by the U.S. bishops in 2002 to address allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy.

In his letter to the newly appointed members, Archbishop Gomez reminded them,
“The National Review Board plays a vital role as a consultative body assisting the bishops in ensuring the complete implementation and accountability of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. As it states, ‘The whole Church, especially the laity, at both the diocesan and national levels, needs to be engaged in maintaining safe environments in the Church for children and young people.’”

The four new NRB members are as follows:

Ms. Vivian M. Akel, LCSW, is a retired Clinical Social Worker currently holding the position (volunteer) of Safe Environment Coordinator for the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn as well as Pre-Cana facilitator. Her prior experience includes 21 years with the New York City Department of Education as a School Social Worker providing all aspects of Social Work Services with school age children, parents and educators. In addition, Ms. Akel held the position of Director of Social Work in an acute care medical center supervising social workers providing services to patients, families and medical personnel. Ms. Akel began her career working in a Community Mental Health Center in Brooklyn New York providing outpatient psychotherapy to individual patients, couples and families and maintained a private practice until her retirement in 2014. She received a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and is currently enrolled in a Spiritual Direction training program at Fairfield University’s Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality. Ms. Akel has been married for 34 years and has two adult children.

Mr. James Bogner is a retired Senior Executive Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with over 35 years of law enforcement experience including serving as a municipal police officer, commanding a detective division, and an FBI Special Agent. He has served as a field investigator in Indianapolis, an investigative supervisor in Chicago, a Unit Chief in the Washington D.C. headquarters of the FBI’s Internal Affairs/Adjudication Unit, and then the national Inspection Unit. Mr. Bogner was assigned as Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in Oklahoma City after the 1995 bombing. He served in the Senior Executive Service in Washington, and later as Special Agent-in-Charge of FBI offices in the midwest over Nebraska and Iowa. These positions included investigations, developing multi-agency liaisons and partnerships, addressing national personnel and misconduct policies and issues, conducting national inspections and audits, risk analysis, strategic planning, and high-profile media matters. Mr. Bogner later served as the first Assistant Federal Security Director developing procedures and protocols for airport security for Law Enforcement in Nebraska and Iowa after 9/11. He has served on several local, state and national boards and councils. Mr. Bogner has a Master’s Degree in Administration of Justice, and he is a graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute. He has also served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in the Criminal Justice program. His volunteer work includes being President of his Parish Council to include data and survey analysis and strategic planning. Mr. Bogner also serves on the Archdiocesan Advisory Review and Ministerial Misconduct Boards for the Archdiocese of Omaha.

Mr. Steven Jubera is an Assistant District Attorney for Mississippi's 17th Judicial District. Born in Chicago, he served as a United States Marine being deployed to the Middle East with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Upon Mr. Jubera’s honorable discharge, he attended the University of Illinois at Chicago then earned his law degree from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS where he currently resides. Mr. Jubera has assisted in the formation of a child advocacy center to better serve the children of his community and has been a speaker advocating for children including the One Loud Voice conference in Mississippi. Mr. Jubera currently serves on the Review Board for the Diocese of Jackson. He is married with four children and one grandson.

Thomas M. Mengler is president of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Before becoming president of St. Mary’s, he served as dean of two law schools: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Mr. Mengler has served Catholic higher education as a member and, between 2018 to 2020, as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. In that role, Mr. Mengler also served in 2018 as a member of the Higher Education Working Group for the USCCB’s Committee on Higher Education. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities of San Antonio and as Co-Chair of the Lay Commission on Clergy Sexual Abuse of Minors in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He and his wife have four adult children.

Details regarding the National Review Board, its functions and other members can be found at:
http://www.usccb.org/about/child-and-youth-protection/the-national-review-board.cfm

Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People 2018 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Then, this happened...

Brooklyn Catholic Bishop DiMarzio Denies ‘Libelous’ Accusations of Abuse

 Nicholas DiMarzio

Bishop DiMarzio is already the subject of a Vatican ordered investigation, following the first allegation, made in November, 2019, which DiMarzio has also categorically denied.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn has denied a second allegation of sexual abuse, and said he is considering taking legal action for libel against his accusers. Both allegations relate to the bishop’s time as a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark in the 1970s.

On Thursday, Associated Press reported that Samier Tadros had accused Bishop DiMarzio of sexual abuse, allegedly committed in the 1970s while Bishop DiMarzio was a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.

“This is clearly another attempt to destroy my name and discredit what I have accomplished in my service to God and His people, including my efforts to fight the scourge of sexual abuse,” Bishop DiMarzio said in a statement June 4.

“I have retained counsel and am contemplating filing a lawsuit against those responsible for these accusations, which have no basis in fact. I am ready, willing, and able to go to trial to defend myself.”

Bishop DiMarzio is already the subject of a Vatican ordered investigation, following the first allegation, made in November, 2019, which DiMarzio has also categorically denied.

In his statement on Thursday, Bishop DiMarzio said that “there is absolutely no truth to this allegation,” which he characterized as “outrageous and libelous.”

Bishop DiMarzio’s lawyer, Joseph Hayden said in a statement released by the diocese that “We have uncovered conclusive evidence of Bishop DiMarzio’s innocence.”

“Both allegations against my client are more than 40 years old, and the accusers are each seeking 20-million dollars from the Newark Archdiocese. We have been investigating these claims and we have uncovered conclusive evidence of Bishop DiMarzio’s innocence.”

Hayden said he and the bishop “look forward to challenging these allegations in court or in any other proceeding. These 40-year-old allegations in pursuit of two 20-million-dollar legal claims are simply untrue and Bishop DiMarzio will never agree to a settlement of these claims.”

Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian is representing both accusers; Garabedian is known for providing legal representation to clerical sexual abuse victims. Despite making the accusations in public, the Diocese of Brooklyn confirmed to CNA that neither alleged victim has filed suit in court.

In January, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, Bishop DiMarzio’s metropolitan archbishop, announced that the Vatican had instructed him to begin an investigation into the first accusation made against Bishop DiMarzio by Mark Matzek, a 56 year-old man, who claims that Bishop DiMarzio and another priest, now deceased, repeatedly abused him while he was an altar server at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in the Diocese of Newark in the 1970s.

Cardinal Dolan’s investigation is proceeding under the norms of Vos Estis Lux Mundi, a law promulgated by Pope Francis in 2019, which provides for accusations of abuse or related misconduct against a bishop to be undertaken on behalf of the Holy See by the local metropolitan. Associated Press reported on Tuesday that both accusers were prepared to cooperate with Cardinal Dolan’s investigation.

In January, a spokesman for Cardinal Dolan told CNA that the cardinal would be using experts to assist him in his task, but did not give a timeline for the investigation into Bishop DiMarzio.

“As is our practice, the cardinal will rely on outside professional forensic investigators to assist him in this matter,” he said.

“The archdiocese will have no further comment on the matter while the investigation is undertaken.”

According to the New York Post, Cardinal Dolan has retained a risk management company founded by former FBI director Louis Freeh to assist in the investigation.

The first allegation was made in November last year, shortly after Bishop DiMarzio himself had concluded a Vatican-ordered investigation of the Buffalo diocese which was mired in scandal and accusations of then-diocesan Bishop Richard Malone mishandling sexual abuse claims.

At the time of the November accusation, Bishop DiMarzio said that “n my nearly 50-year ministry as a priest, I have never engaged in unlawful or inappropriate behavior and I categorically deny this allegation.”

Tadros, Bishop DiMarzio’s second accuser, said he was repeatedly sexually abused by Bishop DiMarzio at Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City; Tadros said he was 6 years old when the abuse began.

In his statement on Thursday, Bishop DiMarzio said his record showed him to be a proven “leader in the fight against sexual abuse,” noting that he was selected by the Vatican to investigate the Buffalo diocese last fall because of his “exemplary record.”

Bishop DiMarzio also said that as bishop of Brooklyn he had created an independent reporting line that would send abuse claims in his diocese straight to the district attorney.

Then, this happened....

Pope appoints two women to positions in Vatican library and financial authority

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JUDICIARY: The Current State of the U.S. Refugee Program - Examining The Benefits Of Modern Day Human Trafficking - Happy Partus Sequitur Ventrem Month!

The USCCB wants to save the souls of the savages.

The parishes need the refugee programS to bring in more parishioners. 

Parishioners vote.

Refugee parishioners have corporate legal guardians, who can vote through absentee proxy, upon the grant of citizenship.

Parishioners need services like Medicaid.

Refugees have children, who need to go to school.

Refugee parishioners can work and take out mortgages to buy homes.

The Archdioceses have lots of real estate.

Gerrymandering is one way to redraw voting districts.

The USCCB has all the trafficking tiny human contracts, like Foster Care and Adoption, including lots and lots of Social Impact Bond revenue maximization programs.

States have questionable practices when it comes to its population counts.

The slave trade never ended.

Slavery was never abolished in the US. because we built this christian nation using human capital of refugees, which is why all the witnesses represent christian, foreign, corporate interests.

Happy Partus Sequitur Ventrem Month.

No Truth in Testimony affidavits because the U,S, Conference of Catholic Bishops would never traffic tiny humans...

Witnesses
Mr. Biar Atem
Nevada Delegate and Board of Directors Member, Refugee Congress

http://refugeecongress.org/

The Most Reverend Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodrguez
Auxiliary Bishop of Washington and, Chair of the Committee on Migration, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops



https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=USCCB

Ms. Lora Ries
Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security, The Heritage Foundation



https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=HERITAGE+FOUNDATION

Ms. Barbara Strack
Former Chief of the Refugee Affairs Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and, Current Advisory Member, Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program

https://cwsglobal.org/

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Meet The Gerrymanders Of Michigan - The Public Private Partnerships Of Trafficking Tiny Humans - 2019 Child Protective Services Training - Universities

Meet the Gerrymanders of Michigan because it started in Detroit.

"Go forth, into the Michigan cities with land banks, utilizing the secret maps of the Predictive Modeling Gods, and gerrymander, in the name of the lord. We have planes for the non-OCONUS missions.

Meet the people who are not held to any civil rights law because they are not elected, exempted and excluded from FOIA because it is a domestic not for profit corporation, not part of the State of Michigan public body corporate, because it is private, and gets the contracts to train Child Protective Services Workers for the State of Michigan,

https://www.andrews.edu/about/mission/index.html

Our Mission

Andrews University, a distinctive Seventh-day Adventist institution, transforms its students by educating them to seek knowledge and affirm faith in order to change the world.

The publishers of Gerrymandering

Our Vision

Andrews University students will:

Seek Knowledge as they...

• Engage in intellectual discovery and inquiry
• Demonstrate the ability to think clearly and critically
• Communicate effectively
• Understand life, learning, and civic responsibility from a Christian point of view
• Demonstrate competence in their chosen disciplines and professions

Affirm Faith as they...

• Develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
• Deepen their faith commitment and practice
• Demonstrate personal and moral integrity
• Embrace a balanced lifestyle, including time for intellectual, social, spiritual, and physical development
• Apply understanding of cultural differences in diverse environments

Change the World as they go forth to...

• Engage in creative problem-solving and innovation
• Engage in generous service to meet human needs
• Apply collaborative leadership to foster growth and promote change
• Engage in activities consistent with the worldwide mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Always remember, there are no Open Meetings Act violations when making policy, under the color of law, in the name of the lord.

There are two ways of documenting a birth for the purposes of citizenship, where the first is the Birth Certificate and the second is the Birth Record, where the church has legally recognized authority to record the births, because they are the keeper of the record.

Then, you fill out a form and check a few boxes, and, voila', you get a Social Security Number and a Passport issued through the miracle of adoption by the Department of State.

Then, you can transfer guardianship, re-home, terminate parental rights, transfer corporate parental rights, or whatever the Children's Trust scheme is in operation, like Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

The Border Babies are coming to Michigan where there shall be a need for more Gerrymanders.

Meet Sally the Gerrymander

2019 Child Welfare In-Service Training for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and MDHHS-C... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Happy National Adoption Month: TRUMP v. NAACP Petition For Certiorari To SCOTUS On Trafficking Tiny Humans - DACA, DAPA

Oh Baby.....come to Mommie...

It looks as if we are going to be celebrating National Adoption Month by fast tracking child welfare fraud to SCOTUS next year.

In a nutshell, Trump is suing NAACP about rescinding its DACA child immigration policy because the congress never passed a law for it.

Only the congress can legislate, yet, "Congress had repeatedly declined to enact legislation “closely resembl[ing] DACA and DAPA.” Id. at 185." p.11.

The Executive Branch makes policy, so they made DACA and DAPA, because congress would not make a law for it.

Making policy can and does include rescission.

But here is where it gets good.

QUESTIONS PRESENTED This dispute concerns the policy of immigration enforcement discretion known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In 2016, this Court affirmed, by an equally divided Court, a decision of the Fifth Circuit holding that two related Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discretionary enforcement policies, including an expansion of the DACA policy, were likely unlawful and should be enjoined. See United States v. Texas, 136 S. Ct. 2271 (per curiam). In September 2017, DHS determined that the original DACA policy was unlawful and would likely be struck down by the courts on the same grounds as the related policies. DHS thus instituted an orderly wind-down of the DACA policy. The questions presented are as follows: 1. Whether DHS’s decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable. 2. Whether DHS’s decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful.

Now, check out the parties to the action.

PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING Petitioners are Donald J. Trump, President of the United States; Jefferson B. Sessions III, Attorney General of the United States; Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and the United States. Respondents are the Trustees of Princeton University; Microsoft Corporation; Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO; and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is really a case of those pesky child welfare trust funds.

The case is addressing The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.,

Basically, the INA is written under admirality law because it uses the language of chattels.

All you have to do is look at the nomenclature of the vessel, with crew, in commerce and see the structures of the chattels when addressing women, in the realms of a fashion model, or children, as property.

This is coded as Uniform Commercial Code because we are dealing with Trustees.

(14) The term ‘‘foreign state’’ includes outlying possessions of a foreign state, but self-governing dominions or territories under mandate or trusteeship shall be regarded as separate foreign states.

Trustees are the admirals of the UCC vessels which are documented in their financial manifests as funds, in this case, of the children, as corporate parents.

Here is a snippet of the admirality terms contained within the definitions I have, with such great pleasure, provided, below:

(10)The term “crewman” means a person serving in any capacity on board a vessel or aircraft.
The term “diplomatic visa” means a nonimmigrant visa bearing that title and issued to a nonimmigrant in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe
(14)The term “foreign state” includes outlying possessions of a foreign state, but self-governing dominions or territories under mandate or trusteeship shall be regarded as separate foreign states
(15)The term “immigrant” means every alien except an alien who is within one of the following classes of nonimmigrant aliens—(A)
(i)an ambassador, public minister, or career diplomatic or consular officer who has been accredited by a foreign government, recognized de jure by the United States and who is accepted by the President or by the Secretary of State, and the members of the alien’s immediate family;
(ii)upon a basis of reciprocity, other officials and employees who have been accredited by a foreign government recognized de jure by the United States, who are accepted by the Secretary of State, and the members of their immediate families; and
(iii)upon a basis of reciprocity, attendants, servants, personal employees, and members of their immediate families, of the officials and employees who have a nonimmigrant status under (i) and (ii) above;
(N)(i)the parent of an alien accorded the status of special immigrant under paragraph (27)(I)(i) (or under analogous authority under paragraph (27)(L)), but only if and while the alien is a child, or
(ii)a child of such parent or of an alien accorded the status of a special immigrant under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of paragraph (27)(I) (or under analogous authority under paragraph (27)(L));

The U.S. even allows servants, per the Act.

(v) attendants, servants, and personal employees of any such representative, officer, or employee, and the members of the immediate families of such attendants, servants, and personal employees;

Yes, that is correct, I said servants, just like they were talking about when they wrote the Thirteenth Amendment 

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Now, whether that is involuntary or voluntary, it is not even considered in the original text of INA because if it was involuntary, then that servant may have casted into this very unpleasant station of servitude for the crime of being poor, or of something similar under chattel law.

But then again, the act does not address this, nor does it address servitude of children.

Just saying.

But guess what!

Congress, still, has not passed any law dealing with what I call the trafficking of tiny humans because it is the money maker, hence, the children's trust funds.

INA does not even address child marriage.

It does not even address someone being brought into the country for organ transfers.

But, I digress.

Back to the Trump v. NAACP.

So, I am just going to go bold and focus on Sessions, because this is his playground.

Sessions has had this issues, along with presenting legislation to address alien children.

No one listened to him, so I guess you can say he is the only person in the Congress to attempt to address Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

 Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

That is history.

Back to the Petition for Certiorari.

Since Congress never did jack when it came to passing law about immigration, or even child immigration, trafficking tiny humans, they are both fungible terms under UCC law as chattels, DACA, along with Deferred Action for Parentsof Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents(DAPA). See Regents App. 102a-110a., Department of Homeland Security came up with the policy under the Obama Administration, which they are now rescinding because when these policies were put into place, the argument is, that it violated The Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Pub.L. 79–404, 60 Stat. 237, which was written in 1946 during the reconstruction after WWII.

The U.S. does not have the greatest history when it comes to children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) fleeing from violence seeking refuge on our shores because, typically, you are supposed to register them under the Mann Act.

Seriously.

Anyway, in a nutshell, it is being argued by NAACP et. al. that the rescission of DACA and DAPA is "arbitrary and capricious" because the agencies have no grounds to do it.

For those of you who do not know me, the term "arbitrary and capricious" triggers me into an episode of Post Traumatic Fraud Syndrome because that is the exact same language, and argument, used in the Michigan Cotton Doctrine.

In short, the case was done in Detroit where the Almighty Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelly, the most powerful AG in the nation, argued on behalf of the Michigan Children's Institute that the Superintendent can not be challenged on whether his decisions were right or wrong, but the adversarial party would have to prove the decision to withhold the gift of the grant of custodianship and guardianship to the original parents, or if the decision to withhold the grant of custodianship and transfer of guardianship was "arbitrary and capricious" , meaning, you had to prove you could read the mind of the Superintendent to find out if the decision was whimsical.

Talk about a cotton picking minute!

I am so glad Sessions is going after the NAACP because they were really mean to my Sweetie and they have a children's trust fund, that, obviously, the children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched  teeth) do not benefit, at all....not a damn dime.

Allow me a moment, for I am having another bout of Post Traumatic Fraud Syndrome when it comes to the NAACP.

Michigan Auditor General Sues For Adoption Records, Has No Clue About MCI Or The Trust Funds

Finally, I realized why the APA was circumvented in rulemaking. 

It was because they were going for UCC law, because these charitable children's trusts are structured under state law, but only enforceable under international law, which they rewrote, just like they did with DACA and DAPA, because trusteeship is considered a separate foreign state.

Artificial Dictator of Fraud

This petition of cert is addressing the residuals of the peculiar institution in what is called child welfare, or rather, the international trafficking of tiny humans.

(Domestic trafficking of tiny humans, called foster care and adoption through the many roads of the U.S. child welfare system should be in play very soon.)

Happy National Adoption Month!

Get 'em.

I got your back but I still do not like Noel Fransico because there is not one single reference to adoption, child welfare law or anything dealing with the trust funds.

Trump v NAACP PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT by Beverly Tran on Scribd

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Administrative Procedures Act of 1946 (P.L. 79-404) by Beverly Tran on Scribd

This is going to get nasty.

Buckle up because #cyberwars are real.

The psyops are coming, and they are going to come hard.

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JUDICIARY: Senate Addresses EB-5 & Its Child Welfare Fraud Issues

Chuck Grassley is a bit passionate in his opening statement that the nation is in its third administration where nothing has been done to address updating immigration policies.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is speaking upon child welfare, or rather the removal of children from parents, but, once again, horribly fails to address foster care and adoption.

Slowly, the nation is learning about child welfare law, but they better hurry up on that learning curve, because the fraud schemes continue to grow, as do the off shore bank accounts and money laundering through child welfare NGOs through real estate.

Dilly, dilly!

Make sure to click the link, below, to learn more about the origins of the EB-5 complex fraud schemes that also fund political campaigns.

The Sordid Tale Of Michigan Privatization: From Emergency Manager To Russia

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Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 

Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee “Citizenship for Sale: Oversight of the EB-5 Investor Visa Program” Tuesday, June 19, 2018 

 Good morning. I would like to thank Director Cissna for being here today for this very important hearing on a topic that goes to the very integrity of our nation’s lawful immigration system. 

Before I begin my formal remarks, I want to remind both my Democratic and Republican colleagues that the purpose of today’s hearing is to conduct oversight of a particular immigration program, the EB-5 Investor Visa. 

Our general, annual oversight hearing for Citizenship and Immigration Services is a separate hearing which will happen in September. 

Today, we should focus on the very important and persistent issue at hand: fixing the beleaguered EB-5 Investor Visa Program. Congress created the investor visa program in 1990 to stimulate our economy through job creation and capital investment. 

In 1992, we created a “pilot program” which allowed petitioners to pool their investments in regional centers designated by USCIS. 

Since the regional center program’s creation, interest in the EB-5 program has grown. 

Today, almost all EB-5 petitioners invest in one of 903 approved regional centers. 

As interest in the EB-5 Regional Center Program has grown, so have cases of fraud, corruption and threats to national security. 

There are many, many well-documented examples of the inherent problems in this program. 

In fact, over the last five years, I along with several of my colleagues, have written over 30 oversight letters highlighting the various vulnerabilities of this visa program. 

Because I have consistently raised awareness of the rampant fraud and abuse of this program, I don’t need to tell you about the ex-wife of China’s third most wanted government official who pled guilty to committing EB-5 fraud by submitting false documents as part of a scheme to escape to the U.S. with stolen funds. 

I don’t need to tell you how Homeland Security Investigations discovered a group of Iranian operatives attempting to infiltrate the U.S. and facilitate terrorism through an illegal procurement network back in 2013. 

I also don’t need to detail the concerns with exporting sensitive technology, investment fraud, or other criminal activity. 

So, I’ll only mention some of the most egregious recent cases. 

This past January, a group of over 120 Chinese nationals sued an Idaho real estate development company and claimed they were fraudulently coerced into investing over $60 million. 

The real estate company in question allegedly promised there was “zero risk” to invest in their specific EB-5 project, a claim that clearly violates the program’s requirements that capital be at risk. 

As a result, this specific EB-5 project was terminated by USCIS and the investors’ immigration status was jeopardized—all because this project misrepresented themselves in order to gain quick, easy money. 

In May, the SEC barred two EB-5 companies from selling securities after it was discovered the companies’ president and manager fraudulently raised $22.5 million in EB-5 capital from Chinese investors. 

According to the SEC, these two companies were supposed to use the raised money for the development of a condominium complex. Instead, the companies’ President and his wife stole more than $12 million in order to purchase homes for themselves. 

Finally, and also in May, two Maryland residents were charged with defrauding 31 immigrant investors and using money intended to create jobs after Hurricane Katrina for personal gain. 

The indictment claims the duo contracted with New Orleans to create a $15.5 million investment fund, but instead used the money to buy themselves vacation and rental properties. 

Several months ago, my staff was briefed by officials from the Department’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate on its recent EB-5 National Security Concern Assessment. 

Unsurprisingly, the report found that the program is susceptible to Ponzi schemes and financial fraud, and warned that current vetting by law enforcement systems may have missed national security concerns due to insufficiencies in vetting and data collection. 

I hope today we have the opportunity to hear about the improvements made as a result of this review. Today, in spite of this ample evidence of fraud and corruption, and the concerning national security loopholes, the EB-5 “pilot program” continues to operate exactly the same way it did 25 years ago. 

However, it’s not for a lack of trying. For the past four and a half years, I’ve worked in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion with Senators Leahy, Chairman Goodlatte, and then-Ranking Member John Conyers to reform this program. 

Our staffers have spent countless hours, often working nights, weekends, and holidays, to produce consensus reform packages. 

Each and every time we’ve gotten an agreement at the last minute, powerful, well-connected EB-5 industry groups have torpedoed our efforts. 

For the last year, my staff, along with Chairman Goodlatte, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Flake’s teams, worked around the clock to produce an EB-5 reform package. 

Everyone made numerous concessions in order to reach a deal, and we produced a reform package that was fair and that everyone agreed to. 

Our reforms had the unanimous support of Invest in the USA, the largest EB-5 trade association. 

Our reforms had the support of the EB-5 Rural Alliance, a group working to ensure that rural America has a fair shake at attracting EB-5 money. 

But, these reforms weren’t acceptable to the big moneyed New York industry stakeholders who currently dominate the program. 

And because big money interests weren’t happy with these reforms, they didn’t become law. Let that sink in for a minute. 

In spite of the fact that reforms were agreed to by Congressional offices and had the support of the largest EB-5 trade association, they didn’t become law because a few EB-5 businesses with a lot of money used their political connections and influence to block them. 

While legislative reforms are absolutely necessary, thankfully there is much the administration can do on its own to end corruption in this program. 

Since January of last year, there have been pending regulations at the Department of Homeland Security, which would modernize the program and ensure capital is actually flowing to rural and underserved urban areas. 

As of today, those regulations still have not been implemented. 

I’m looking forward to a fulsome discussion with Director Cissna on all of these topics. I’m hoping he can shed some light on steps USCIS is taking to crack down on fraud and abuse in the program. 

I’d also be curious to hear his thoughts on potential paths forward for legislative reforms. 

Finally, and most importantly, I hope Director Cissna can provide an update on the status of the pending modernization regulations. As I have stated very clearly in several bicameral, bipartisan letters, the administration should finalize the modernization regulation as soon as possible. 

That regulation is a critical and necessary step towards reforming this troubled program. I now turn to the Ranking Minority Member for her opening remarks.

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