Wednesday, May 08, 2002
English Exam Fraud Scheme Exposed
The Washington Times reports today that "56 Foreigners arrested in proficiency-test scam." The scheme involved students from "Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Washington state as well as the District and Virginia."
This wasn't the only English-test scam that began during the Clinton era. Remember Citizenship USA:
[The book] Sell Out also includes an appendix of documents which demonstrates Al Gore's direct involvement in turning Citizenship USA into "a pro-Democrat voter mill" in which English tests were waived and criminal records of prospective citizens swept under the rug in places such as New York City, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Newark. Each of these cities was located in a key battleground state during the 1996 presidential election.) Ultimately, over 1 million new citizens were naturalized in time to vote for Clinton-Gore in 1996.
Rampant English testing fraud among applicants for U.S. citizenship was first exposed in 1996, thanks to the efforts of one brave woman:
One contractor, the Naturalization Assistance Service (NAS), conducted an estimated 200,000 tests annually. A NAS test was effectively a multiple-choice exam with test takers also asked to write a mere two sentences in English. Just one of those two sentences need be correct. Yet as ABC's 20/20 reported in 1996, the NAS English test was still too onerous
for many of the people who paid to be in a NAS classroom.
A concerned NAS employee, Jewell Elghazali, complained that large batches of tests were written in identical handwriting. Ms. Elghazali was fired. Just how many more forged tests were transformed into certificates of English competence? No one will ever know.
|posted by Jim on 9:18 AM|
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