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After Drug Enforcement Administration agents nabbed a Chilean cocaine smuggler in Beverly Hills, Calif., they found in his bank safety deposit box only one item, a fraudulent U.S. passport. The phony passport and the forged visa have become standard equipment for drug traffickers, illegal aliens and others seeking a sure if shadowy passage abroad. A 1976 Justice Department report estimated that 80% of all hard drugs flowing into the U.S. were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely...
...million U.S. passport applications received yearly, federal officials estimate that 30,000 to 60,000 are fraudulent-and that only the most obvious ones, about 1,000, are detected. The State Department's office of security has responsibility for pursuing passport and visa fraud, but its agents complain that their own superiors have handcuffed them. Says one agent: "The integrity of the passport system has gone down the drain...
...spokesman said politics had not played a part in the deportation proceedings, adding that Brutus's case was routine because his temporary visa expired last year. By taking a permanent job in the United States under a temporary visa, Brutus jeopardized his application for permanent residency, Robert Prosek, acting district director for the INS in Chicago, said yesterday...
Another 400,000 have received invitations from relatives in Israel, the first step in being granted an exit visa, but have been refused permission to leave, he said. Since the mail is censored, those who have received the invitations have been blacklisted, he added...
...pounding it down, the body national is being rejuvenated with a relentless impatience, slimmed with a fanatic dedication. On jogging tracks, in diet clinics and health restaurants and on the operating tables of plastic surgeons, a wholesale attempt to transform the body is avidly purchased with VISA and MasterCard...