Who are you voicing this matter for and why?
You stated “your” concerns that there are no visas for IRs (Immediately Relatives) who had lived in our homeland in upwards of 20 years.
Did it ever occur to you HOW these individuals managed to remain in the CNMI well over 20 years, gaining benefits from our broken down system? What was their intent and purpose when they first entered the CNMI? If your answer was to “WORK” then you are totally contradicting your statements for a majority of these individuals with CNMI IR’s have owned up businesses to include holding jobs at the same time.
Not only are they asking for discounts they want the process done immediately before June 1st.
All these issues are being brought about after living in our homeland for over 20 years and taking advantage of a broken down immigration system, full of loopholes and flaws (corruption, if you will). Our government ignored previous warnings of the federal government regarding our immigration system which has victimized our own local U.S. citizens and residents of our homeland due to preference for cheap labor.
Our homeland has been a center of attention concerning sham marriages and recent prosecutions in federal courts have taken place. Most of these individuals are operating and doing businesses as TAXI drivers who are supposedly legally married to local U.S. citizens or FSM citizens.
There have been recent reports of certain individuals, especially Bangladeshi citizens, involved in sham marriages paying off desperate local women or FSM citizens in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 so they can prolong their stay in our homeland.
Once these individuals gain their GREEN CARDS through such sham marriages they will be packing overnight and flying to New York to work as a TAXI driver, while their families are left behind living off public assistance funded by the federal government.
Reports have surfaced that while these individuals are supposedly legally married and living together as husbands and wives they are actually living separately — the individuals continue earning profits as businessmen, while the spouses and children are on food stamps.
This is a serious issue in our homeland and not a lot of people would stand up and speak out about it.
Therefore, we ask that you investigate and gather data and be an informed congressman before you approach other members of the U.S. Congress and federal agencies regarding a matter that has brought shame to our homeland.
National security and border control are a PRIORITY congressman. Let the federal government do its job.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
