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Elena Maria Lopez is an immigration fraud victim turned whistleblower. Her whistleblowing led to federal indictments, congressional investigations, and U.S. Senate hearings in 2011 and 2017. She uncovered national security cases tied to immigration loopholes sought by the FBI and the White House.
She's also a former political journalist and financial writer.
Elena Maria Lopez was almost killed by her Dutch husband after she sponsored him into the United States. He admitted marrying her for a green card, then attacked and terrorized her to keep her quiet.
To keep her safe, the State of New Jersey put her in hiding.
The Department of Homeland Security warned he was "dangerous," but refused to enforce his fraudulent immigration status despite his extensive criminal activities. Instead, the DHS illegally gave Lopez's sensitive personal information to media organizations and dumped it on the Internet.
As a whistleblower, she uncovered national security cases tied to immigration loopholes. The FBI sought them from her in 2016; She twice presented the cases at White House meetings in 2018.
Lopez first warned congressional leaders of the loopholes in 2006 and the national security clusters starting in 2012. Lawmakers not only refused to close the temporary loopholes responsible – which allow foreigners to bypass background checks, hide national-security threats, waive criminal activities, and get fast-tracked citizenship – but made them permanent law in 2013. Since then, congress, the courts and successive presidents have expanded such loopholes.
Lopez testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about her own case in 2017.
Lead witness for immigration fraud hearings; Testified about personal case; Long-time whistleblower working with Senate and House leadership.
"... my fiancée indicated that she did not need me any more to get her green card and boasted that she can get it quicker in other ways. I thought she was joking ... During this time, my family in Pakistan has been harassed and threatened by her father and brothers. One of her brothers threatened to kidnap my niece.."
- Dr. Jamal Hussain; Naturalized U.S. citizen defrauded by Pakistani fiancée (U.S. Senate hearing, 2017)
"... my husband became abusive toward our children and threatened to take them back to the Czech Republic if I did not sponsor him for his green card ... Facing deportation for marriage fraud, a charge leveled by the federal government, my husband, a former professional hockey player, at 6’2” tall and over 200 lbs., self petitioned as a battered and abused spouse."
- Julie Poner on her Czech husband claiming abuse to halt his pending deportation: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 2011
"The Abuse of VAWA: How False Accusations of Abuse Facilitate Fraud and Garner Green Cards"
(Julie Poner's 2018 Townhall opinion piece)
See ImmigrationFraud.com for additional information.
America's political, economic, racial and ethnic diversity is represented within its immigration fraud victims.
They are people of color, Latinos, multi-racial, LGBTQ, first-generation Americans and naturalized U.S. citizens.
They come from every socioeconomic, educational and political background.
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