Photo by superfemDavid Hernandez of Harlingen may have been delivered by a midwife not far from the border with Mexico, but he always knew he was born in the United States. The trick was convincing the U.S. Department of State, which refused to issue him a passport based on a history of midwife fraud along the Texas-Mexico border.The government was claiming that because Hernandez's midwife's name appeared on a list of midwives suspected of committing birth certificate fraud, Hernandez had to pro
A citizen of Saudi Arabia has been charged by the feds here for lying to obtain a visa for an employee.What's so bad about that? Well, the lie was that he told visa officials he was bringing the woman over here to be domestic help at $1,300 a month at eight hours a day six days a week, but instead, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office: During the six years the Indonesian national worked for [Mohammed] Al-Zehairi, the complaint alleges she worked far more than the agreed upon eight hours
Unemployment in Texas has more than doubled since last year, causing one former oil-industry worker to ask: Why can companies continue to sponsor work visas for foreign workers?"It's not like we're talking about people picking fruit in fields," Rick Everinghim, who designs refineries, along with petrochemical and nuclear plants, tells Hair Balls. "Guys in my field are specialized, some making about $200,000 a year, but we're starving out here."Everingham, now living in his home state of Fl
