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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Illegal Alien Who Used Fake Fed Doc to Get License Committed No Crime, Obama Judge Rules

It is not a crime for an illegal immigrant to use fake federal documents to obtain a legitimate state license, according to a remarkable ruling issued this week by an Obama-appointed judge in south Florida. The defendant, 38-year-old Rubman Ardon Chinchilla, was among 20 people arrested several months ago in a scheme that used bogus immigration documents in driver’s license applications. The man who masterminded the operation, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Cuba, has been charged with fraud.

Chinchilla, a Honduran national, has lived illegally in the U.S. for decades, according to a local newspaper report, and has three American-born children. He works as a roofer and lives in the Broward County city of Ft. Lauderdale. After getting busted using a phony version of a federal document known as an Order of Supervision to get a Florida license, he got indicated with two counts of violating federal law. The illegal immigrant’s attorneys challenged the charges, asserting that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles doesn’t even allow driver’s license applicants to use an Order of Supervision as proof of legal status in the U.S. In their argument they cited a case in which a California appeals court threw out the conviction of a Chinese man who got two driver’s licenses while living in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, appointed to the bench in 2014, agreed and threw out the criminal charges against Chinchilla. Siding with the illegal alien’s attorneys, Bloom proclaimed that there is no actual law allowing the federal Order of Supervision form to be used to prove “authorized stay in the United States.” The bizarre reasoning will allow others involved in the recent south Florida fake document sting to use the same argument to avoid justice. The local newspaper article cited earlier in this piece writes this: “It’s a highly technical legal argument, but it’s opening the door for the others arrested in the sting to beat their cases, and maybe even stay in the United States.” Another illegal immigrant arrested along with Chinchilla, Jeovanny Gutierrez Nuñez, is already using Judge Bloom’s decision to get his charges dropped. Federal prosecutors plan to appeal Chinchilla’s case and his lawyers claim that if Bloom’s ruling stands, it will allow the illegal alien to get legal papers because his record will remain clean and he has three U.S.-born kids.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe he could also file a fake document and say he owns the dumba$$ judges car too. Would he turn the car over to him?

Anonymous said...

According to this judge ( I use this term lightly) no police officer anywhere in the United States has a duty, constitutional or otherwise, to protect citizens from attack! This will lead to anarchy! So citizens this 'judge' says you are on your own to protect yourself from anyone with a weapon, just don't use a weapon to do so because you are on your own and may end up I jail!!

Anonymous said...


The Bloom is off this judge; readers can readily ascertain why Obama thought she should be perched on the bench.

Even though the document he proffered wasn't listed as acceptable for verification, he still offered it in an attempt to defraud. That is the greater and more important fact.

He might also have tried to pay the license fee in Monopoly money.

Intent is always a central element in a case. This judge is miscast on the bench but would be a lock for a NFL whistle and cap.

Anonymous said...

WTF???

Anonymous said...

What part of illegal does the judge doesn't understand