On Oct. 22, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced Parth Nayi to two years in prison and fined him $50,000 for organizing hundreds of staged armed robberies. Fake bandits, replica guns, and paid-off store owners gave customers a crime to report, because the U visa is reserved for victims of real ones. Participants paid up to $30,000 each to play victim. Hollywood would call it a heist hoax film. Honest applicants and taxpayers get to call it a rigged system.
I’m a father of three who coached youth football and rugby for years. Coaching teaches one simple rule: The whistle only means something if it blows the same way for everyone. Immigration and benefit programs skip that principle, and organized fraud has noticed. Programs that approve or pay on unchecked paperwork invite it, and taxpayers and honest applicants have to cover the loss.
