Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders

Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar. by Naisha Roy, Northwestern University, and Francesca D'Annunzio and J. David McSwane, ProPublica As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her city. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-scams-complaints-doubled-ice?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary