20 Accused Of Posing As Cuban Migrants In South Florida Fraud Case

Accused Of Posing As Cuban Migrants
This is a horizontal, color photograph shot late in the afternoon from a high angle view of South Beach. Facing west the downtown buildings are visible in the distance.
This is a horizontal, color photograph shot late in the afternoon from a high angle view of South Beach. Facing west the downtown buildings are visible in the distance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 20 people this week in Miami-Dade and Broward after they were accused of attempting to defraud immigration authorities by posing as Cuban migrants.

The arrests Tuesday and Wednesday resulted from an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, an ICE unit, in conjunction with Customs and Border Protection and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

The case is the second most important in immigration fraud since a January a federal judge sentenced four members of a network that sold fake Cuban birth certificates to undocumented immigrants so they could obtain permanent resident cards posing as Cuban refugees.

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