Missourinet:
By Bob Priddy
A State Representative from Cape Girardeau has pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges. The federal prosecutor says Representative Nathan Cooper (R-Cape Girardeau), a lawyer specializing in immigration law, helped get temporary work visas for his clients in the trucking business.
The prosecutor says he was paid at least $50,000 in legal fees from his trucking clients. He admitted creating fake companies that he used to get temporary work visas; writing bogus letters about the immigration status of his clients’ workers, and of buying visas that were illegally transferred to his client’s workers. Read more…
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1 St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister // Aug 9, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Southeast Missouri’s Republican politicians seem to be problematic on the issue. It is widely thought that if a soft amnesty bill ever came to the floor of the U.S. House, JoAnn Emerson would be for it.
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