FRAUGHT WITH FRAUD From: Filipino Reporter | Date: May 26, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Madrid-Crost, Mary Carmen
Filipino Reporter
05-26-2005
During Fiscal Year 2003, the Identity and Benefits Fraud (IBF) Unit, a task
force facilitation unit of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland
Security, exposed 3,700 new cases of immigration fraud and scrutinized more
than 6,000 leads it received in the same year. While ICE is charged with
detecting, preventing, and dislocating fraudulent schemes utilized by
terrorists and organized criminals, the IBF enforces its mission by
targeting specific fraud perpetrators and ...

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