A Concord man made his initial appearance in federal court today after being indicted for 11 counts of Visa Fraud, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
The following is from the U.S. Attorney’s Office….
According to an indictment filed Sept. 30, Srinivasa Chennupati made false statements in applications to obtain high-technology worker visas for 11 applicants.
The Indictment alleges that Chennupati submitted immigration forms and supporting documentation to the government purporting to have job offers for 11 non-immigrant high-technology workers, when he had no jobs for the non-immigrant workers.
The H-1B high-technology worker visa program requires, amongst other things, that an American employer certify it has high-technology jobs that cannot be filled by Americans.
Chennupati was arrested today, and was released on a $25,000 bond. His next scheduled court appearance is on Oct. 19.
The maximum penalty for Visa Fraud is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Anyone with information about false applications for United States entry visas is encouraged to contact the Diplomatic Security Service at 415-705-1176.
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“high-technology jobs that cannot be filled by Americans.” What exactly does cannot be filled mean? I can understand if no one is applying for the position, but I find it hard to believe that NO american would attempt to apply for a “high-technology” job
What about another Concord resident, the Mexican woman who showed me her tourist visa that expired in 2004? The genius who gave it to her somehow didn’t notice that she was very, very pregnant with an anchor baby at the time. Mother and baby — babies, actually, as she already had an older one — are doing just fine and living on Monument with daddy, who has no papers whatsoever, save for a Mexican driver’s license. ICE can’t find any illegals on Monument, but somehow found this Chennupati fellow. Go figure!
What do you think of Srinivasa Chennupati’s actions? Does his name ring a bell? Can you even pronounce his name?
How about this one: Does the name Nicky Diaz ring a bell? Like Srinivasa Chennupati, she too submitted faults immigration forms and supporting documentation to secure her job and lied and hid the truth for nine years. She lived that lie and had a family. When she was caught, she blamed everyone but herself. And the media and all the Hispanic and Open Borders groups yelled and screamed that it was not Nicky’s fault.
Without going into a long dissertation, we do not have an immigration problem. We have an invasion problem. We are under attack. This is war. In war, when a country is being invaded, the invaders are called combatants.
Now to get specific and bring it home, Concord, just to name one town, harbors a number of combatants. I say harbors since Concord is listed as a sanctuary city.
Somewhere along the lines, every legal citizen of the United States who lives in Concord will be effected in some negative way unless we join together, form an army and get involved in reducing the invasion.
…oh and of course, doing it legally. We don’t want to break the law, now do we?
SPEAK IT, HANDYMAN RICK! i’d love to see all of them and their anchor babies gone.
Rick Concord is NOT a sanctuary city…although it feels like it sometimes. The fact that Gloria Aldridge is the illegals attorney makes me totally not believe her. Shame on Whitman for hiring her ( if she did know) BUT shame on all you in Claycord that hire illegals. YOU are the problem.
The bottom-feeder fame whore lawyer’s name is Gloria Allred. In fact, most of the time she wears all red so you’ll remember her name, because she thinks you’re that stupid. What’s Meg Whitman charged with, btw?
Mr. Chennupati’s big mistake was not immediately changing his surname to Lopez.
annoyed#1, what they usually mean is they can’t find any Americans willing to do the job for the pay they want to offer. That, and many jobs out there simply stink: unpleasant managers, bad working conditions, or (all too often) endless “putting out fires” caused by incompetence of coworkers or (horrors!) managers or business owners.
The immigration status quo is not likely to change, unfortunately. On the Democrat-left we have a strategy to curry favor with illegals and their families and friends as a way to get votes. The party leaders don’t really want to solve this problem as it is working great for them (building a stronger democrat hispanic voting block, just like they have done with African Americans).
On the Republican-right side, there are so many conservatives who are VERY upset with illegal immigration and poor border security that the Republican leadership is fearful of supporting anything that looks like “comprehnsive inmmigration reform”.
So we are stuck in this horrible situation, with neither party seriously motivated to resolve it.
The solution?
Start with improved border security. Bring the numbers of illegals crossing the border down from a flood to a trickle. Then the conservatives will be more open to other reforms, like a guest worker program without a return requirement. Most conservatives will agree with this IF it does not include a path to citizenship. Mosts conservatives believe in fairness those who came across illegally should be in the back of the line for citizenship.
The anchor baby question is a distraction. Conservatives need to give up on that issue. Closing the borders is the best way to stop that from happening in the future. There is no humane way to undo what has been done in the past.
“Mr. Chennupati’s big mistake was not immediately changing his surname to Lopez.”
You certainly nailed that one, thighs of glory! How many millions of hispanic illegals are in this country, but the feds are prosecuting this one guy? U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag must have been having a slow day when she decided to prosecute this case.
Now now – save you’re Meg housekeeper comments for the politics blog.
But I would like to reiterate this:
“How can you run for governor if you can’t stand up on your own two feet and take accountability for your actions? You blamed my campaign, you blamed the left, you blamed the housekeeper and never ONCE took accountability for your actions”
Jerry Brown
PRICELESS…..
Meg is a liar and got caught in a lie and she will not win the election…you can take that to the bank! Look at all the money she threw in and she’s trailing in the polls.
Ok, now I will go back to the politics blog…
Dear Annoyed #1 – As a (former) tech worker I can tell you exactly how it works: you look for job listings online and at the unemployment office and you find several listings for which you are a freakishly excellent fit. You apply. You call. You check your connections to see if somebody knows somebody. But you get no response.
Ok, no need to be suspicious about that. After all, you’re not getting responses from lots of places. But in the course of doing research on the company placing the ad you discover that the principals of the business are all Indian and that every single member of the staff is Indian. Not only that, the staff members are all graduates of Indian Universities who have only been in the US for a few months.
So they claim to be looking for qualified US tech workers but they never had any intention of hiring anyone. What’s more, these H1B visa workers are indentured servants to the company that hires them. They’re not free to look for work with any other company meaning there is no free market of suppy and demand for their labor.
IT industry is overrun by Srinivasa Chennupati and the likes. Until recently they were submitting frivolous H1B visa applications and bringing over thousands of their fellow Indians even though there were no jobs for them. They’d pimped them out (contracted) through so-called “bodyshops” to companies that don’t want to hire permanent IT staff.
The immigration service had recently changes the requirements for the H1B visa, now they must have an American employer before a visa is issued. This spelled out the death for the bodyshops industry and H1B visa abusers.
As we watch Europe and the rest of the western world bracing for another catastrophic event, our immigration department needs to be on he ball. Just look at the man recently convicted of trying to blow up a vehicle in times square, and he even took the oath to become a US citizen!! Unfortunately we have to somewhat use a profile of people that mean to do harm in our country……..
No wonder HandymanRick is a handyman. Not bright enough to be a full on plumber Rick? I got a thorough laugh thinking about you using a thesaraus to try and use the words “dissertation” and “combatants” to sound relatively intelligent but still thinking “except” is “accept”. Anchor babies? Really, Rick?
Oh yeah and thesaurus > however i spelled it
@Charles –
That is one of teh instances.
One of the other problems is how much, err, make that how LITTLE the H-1B workers are usually willing to work for.
And on top of that – how few Americans get taught any, or bother to learn, about science anymore. It is ridiculous how many students qualify for the UCs and the Cal States based upon their high school class standings and grades, and yet have to take remedial math and science courses.
And in my field at least, the H-1B researchers (and particularly Post Docs) are willing to put up with far more abuse so that they don’t lose their visas.
How about – faults rather than false – yep you sure can tell those Tea Partiers….
#10 – The H1B
Any hungry lawyers out there looking to make a percentage of BILLIONS?
Pursuing the following idea would even be socially useful, not like those lawyers you read about suing companies for having an expired patent number printed on their products.
Improving the U.S. education system, while a laudable goal, does NOT fix this problem. There are a million or more un-or-under employed engineers and IT people that are already very well educated.
A better fix would be for someone to initiate a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the H1B visa under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the amendment that freed the slaves).
An H1B employee is “out of status” if they are laid off, and is required to leave the country immediately. There is no statutory “grace period”.
This gives an employer the power to threaten an employee with IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION. The employer is not, of course, directly ordering the deportation, they are merely making the employee subject to immediate deportation by the U.S. government.
In United States v. Kozminski, 487 U.S. 931 ( 198 ), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment circumscribed involuntary servitude to be limited to those situations when the master subjects the servant to:
1. threatened or actual physical force,
2. threatened or actual state-imposed legal coercion or
3. fraud or deceit where the servant is a minor, an immigrant or mentally incompetent.
The federal anti-slavery statutes were updated in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, P.L. 106-386, which expanded the federal statutes’ coverage to cases in which victims are enslaved through psychological, as well as physical, coercion.
Being put “out of status”, subject to immediate deportation, is a form of “threatened or actual state-imposed LEGAL COERCION”.
Handyman Rick I could,nt agree with you more. Aron do you do anything besides be on Claycord 24 / 7 .We had 30 years of jerry brown in politics and he’s nothing but raise taxes and move on to his next office to run for.Give it up Jerry and go collect your allowence from mommy and Daddy.He will never know what it really is like to work.Go Meg she knows what work is.
@BB
Nice! I am sure there would be no shortage of examples, but getting people to testify and risk being fired and out of status might cause a lack of witnesses and testimony…
How did this thread morph from the story posted to Mexicans? Could it be that there is an obsessive hatred for them? I certainly think so. Don’t deny it. The bigots can’t eve comment on this thread without knocking Latinos, of which many are Mexican, but there are Guatemalans, Peruvians, Colombians, and Salvadorans. But, bigots don’t care. If someone is brown and can speak Spanish, bigots will call them all illegal Mexicans.
Anon, #23: Well, of course YOU think so…. and that’s all it takes to make it true.
This discussion is about great numbers of non-Americans flaunting our laws supported by American citizens and scofflaws. The numbers are so large and the assertions so bazaar that one must wonder if there is any way to get control of the situation. And certainly most of the respondents to this discussion we never get involved in solutions.
The term Mexican is often attributed to the invaders. Fact is, people from just about every country in the world strive to come here. The subject of this particular story appears to be from India, or thereabouts. Mexico is often accused as the major source since we share boarders. And yes, they are a major contributor but not the only.
It is a fact that we have been invaded in large numbers, which continue at thousands of invaders daily. Why? And what actions can one person take to combat the invasion?
@BB An excellent solution. I believe there was political action lately toward the H1B visas. I am not sure exactly where I saw the action. It could have been at http://www.numbersusa.org/.
And on the subject of http://www.numbersusa.org/ the gumball presentation by Roy Beck is outstanding. Even the most ardent proponent of open borders needs to understand the math. I am in my end game of life and as such will not have to deal with the personal cost of the invaders. The young people in this discussion will not have the nice life we had. It’s sad but as yet I have not see them grasp the situation.
@HandymanRick –
You are forgetting that H-1Bs are sponsored visas. You don’t get one and get a job, you get one in conjunction with being hired by a US company. And more and more companies are requesting more and more of the H-1Bs. Even Microsoft was part of a petition to congress to ease the rules and allow more H-1Bs.
It is our own companies that are flaunting our laws and citizens, and instead of off-shoring, just bringing the “offshore” here. But as long as the execs make money and the stock price climbs, who cares, right?
Well, Connie. The evidence is right there. Only a bigot would deny it.
Handyman Rick,
This thread is about someone lying in order to get people HB1 visas. It’s not about Mexican immigration. If you think so, you need remedial education and should get it immediately. Perhaps you’ll need to make arrangements for the short bus to pick you up.
Connie,
I can tell you’re a Republican from your language skills. Illiteracy must be one of those conditions Republicans must have in order to pass the purity test.
HandymanRick a.k.a. David molestad
Anon,
Why is it that when there’s a shortage of intellectual argument on your part you resort to personal attacks? I am not supporting what HM Rick is saying, but instead of the attack show them where they are wrong with facts.
p.s. move your political stuff to the appropriate thread.
#30
I know you are, but what am I?
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