Immigration Lawyer Indicted -- 11 Years After Iraqi Client Admitted Asylum Fraud

CNS News reports:

A prominent Chicago-area immigration lawyer was indicted last month for immigration fraud, 11 years after his former client, an illegal alien from Iraq who entered the U.S. via Mexico, told federal authorities that the attorney had advised him to lie on his asylum application.

Robert DeKelaita, of Glenview, Illinois, described in 2008 as one of a “handful of immigration lawyers who specialize in representing Iraqi Christians,” was accused of “submitting falsely created affidavits, baptismal certificates, [and] identity documents” on asylum forms he submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) between 2000 and 2011.

He also allegedly coached his clients to lie about their past when they were interviewed by federal immigration officials.

The phony identity information included “false names, false religions, false dates of travel, false dates of entry into the United States, false dates of birth, and false family history,” according to the Sept. 23 indictment.

Imagine that.