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Heists for Visa Cards

May 22, 2024
Staged robberies in Chicago point to an immigration scam.
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Six men have been charged with staging a series of armed robberies in Chicago, Louisiana, and Tennessee to help secure immigration visas meant for crime victims.

A federal indictment accuses the men of recruiting people as pretend robbers and...
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Bro. People in Chicago are doing some wild scams for visas
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bro like visa,
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credit cards or not like visa like Papeles like to stay here
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Officials believe hundreds pose as customers in businesses hoping to win
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immigration status by becoming victims of pre-arranged robberies.
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Wait, so like how does that make them eligible?
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So apparently there's a U Visa which is set aside for
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victims of certain crimes.
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So they would go file the report and then it would help
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them file for this U Visa.
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Yeah. So Imagen that basically called.
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So these dudes were wearing a ring just jumping people,
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they were paying the robbers to jump them so they can apply
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for this visa. So Imagen that UN CV S just like
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yo, I'm in a five like come beat me up
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but don't beat me up that bad.
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I got work tonight,
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you know me. Well,
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apparently some people did go a little too far with this.
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Apparently the scheme had been going on for two years but the
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fake robberies got so real that someone got shot as a funny
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robber and one of the crews intentionally fired their gun striking
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a 26 year old in the abdomen,
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bro. Role played too hard.
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Sources stated that hundreds of additional victims involved in these robberies are
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from out of state.
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So people are like driving to Chicago to get robbed for the
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papeles, which is damn,
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I would have never,
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I would have never,
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I would have never thought of that fucking scam.
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That's crazy. And they have identified over 100 people who benefited
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from being robbed and most of them are from like Latin and
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South American regions. So,
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you know, I guess marrying your cousins for pape is,
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is old school people,
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marry their cousins for Papeles back in the day.
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I know a couple of people that have done that unfortunately.
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But, well, I guess that's safer than better than getting
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robbed. Staging of a robbery.
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I don't know, man.
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Just be safe, get your visa but be safe about it
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