Broker sentenced for immigration fraud

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A Chinese broker who allegedly conspired with a Department of Homeland Security supervisor to provide fraudulent citizenship documents to illegal immigrants was sentenced Thursday to 21 months in federal prison.

Qiming Ye brought as many as 65 illegal Asian immigrants to Robert T. Schofield, a supervisor in the Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Fairfax, who then created fraudulent documents to help them obtain citizenship, according to records.

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