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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson on Immigration Services Fraud
2:44:58
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Christopher Leon Johnson provides testimony on immigration services fraud, criticizing the role of unions and the city council in perpetuating the problem. He argues for more direct involvement from the city council in regulating immigration services and educating immigrants about their rights.
- Johnson suggests that some immigration lawyers secretly fund unions, which then influence politicians.
- He proposes that the city council should create a unit to designate eligible nonprofits for providing immigration services.
- Johnson criticizes the current system, stating that lawyers exploit loopholes in the immigration process for their benefit.
Christopher Leon Johnson
2:44:58
Hello, chair Viles.
2:44:59
My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
2:45:01
I just came from housing of our security guards.
2:45:04
While at the same time, about to say about the unions, but that's a different story.
2:45:08
And by the by the way, your unions are part of the reason that the immigration frauds are happening because what happens is some of these immigration these immigration lawyers fund these unions behind the under the table.
2:45:21
And what happens is that these politicians are scared of these unions, so they they're they're empowered to do what they want.
2:45:28
They're empowered to do what they want, and that's what happens with these immigration lawyers.
2:45:32
At the same time that the city council, needs to be more in government and really do their job and themselves as council members as council members, not outsourcing this type of stuff to the nonprofits that you'd be surprised that get money from these same immigration lawyers, so called immigration lawyers, immigration services to educate the people about what's a real immigration lawyer, what's the what's your rights are as an immigrant, what you what services you need to get, what services you can get immigrant, how much you gotta pay.
2:46:07
The government the the city council needs to design a a unit within the city council to designate certain nonprofits that are l eligible to do immigration services for constituents that's coming over this that's coming from the border.
2:46:24
Let's keep that %.
2:46:25
But like I said, this everybody knows a lot of fraud in this city because there's a lot of lawyers that they see this as a lot they they know the process of getting getting a green card or getting a visa or getting a workers' like a work permit, like a workers' workers' permit, and they know what you what they know every loophole every every exploited loophole.
2:46:44
But until these city council members here disassociate themselves from these these these so called lawyers and these advocates, nothing's gonna change here.
2:46:55
So that's all I gotta say.
2:46:56
Thank you and enjoy your day.