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Parsing Immigration Policy: Marriage Fraud: The Hidden Gateway to U.S. Entry

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4.4 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode of the Parsing Immigration Policy podcast explores a topic rarely covered in the media: marriage fraud. Guest host Marguerite Telford, the Center’s Director of Communications, sits down with Richard Lee, a former USCIS Immigration Officer and author, to discuss how sham marriages are orchestrated to gain a green card—and eventually citizenship—often then bringing […]

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0:00.0

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and complete the dang fence.

0:13.0

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

0:17.9

Can't stone your bucket where you are.

0:20.7

We come from France.

0:21.6

And I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

0:25.6

They're coming in by the thousands, just unbelievable.

0:28.6

A wall is an immorality.

0:30.6

Who are you rooting for it?

0:32.6

Those masters of the universe are added again.

0:36.6

They're not sending their best. You maniac! You blow it up!

0:46.1

Welcome to Parsing Immigration Policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies. My name is Marguerite Telford,

0:52.9

the center's director of communications. I'm sitting in forite Telford, the center's director of communications.

0:54.9

I'm sitting in for Mark Corcorian, the center's executive director.

0:58.8

Today I'm talking to Rich Lee, a retired immigration officer who worked at U.S. citizenship

1:04.0

and immigration services, USCIS, about marriage fraud.

1:09.4

Fraudulent marriage is a gateway, not just for a green card, but also

1:13.4

eventually for citizenship for the foreign national. And of course, then their family members do

1:18.6

to chain immigration. For lots of reasons, this is not an immigration issue that you probably

1:24.0

hear very much about in the media or from your policymakers.

1:30.6

But I think it's an important area that we should talk about.

1:32.8

So, Rich, thank you so much for joining me today.

1:34.4

Oh, thank you for having me, Marguerite.

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