Scam artists target immigrant communities, promising legal status for cash
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 6:41 am
Chicago Tribune - 5/30/2017 - Nereida Moreno - For months, Brandelia Nunez's dining room table has been buried underneath neat piles of receipts, phone logs and court records — evidence she believes will prove her family was scammed out of more than $10,000 while applying for immigration protections they weren't even qualified to receive. Even though Nunez, 43, is living in the country illegally, she contacted police and filed a complaint with the Illinois attorney general's office, which is now pursuing a civil lawsuit on her behalf. Read more @ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/immi ... story.html