How to get ICE to take this case seriously?

[guiness]

My oldest brother, who is 28 years old, is currently the victim of a sophisticated romance scam. His closest friends and family members have all warned him to no avail. We all have contacted ICE, she is from Bolivia on an expired tourist visa. She has already stolen some of his money and she was living with another American citizen (man) when she contacted my brother via a dating app. My brother makes a very good living, we are all concerned that this woman is using him as a money mule since he always refers to her as wealthy. This woman has also refused to meet our family. Our parents are wealthy and they are in the process of protecting their assets via strict trusts and a will that cuts my brother off. Prior to moving in with my brother, she lived in the worst part of town and my brother is currently financially taking care of her.
Question: How can we get ICE to take this case seriously? Beyond stealing some of my brother’s money, she has also taken legal deed documents.

 

[Just Blue]

My oldest brother, who is 28 years old, is currently the victim of a sophisticated romance scam. His closest friends and family members have all warned him to no avail. We all have contacted ICE, she is from Bolivia on an expired tourist visa. She has already stolen some of his money and she was living with another American citizen (man) when she contacted my brother via a dating app. My brother makes a very good living, we are all concerned that this woman is using him as a money mule since he always refers to her as wealthy. This woman has also refused to meet our family. Our parents are wealthy and they are in the process of protecting their assets via strict trusts and a will that cuts my brother off. Prior to moving in with my brother, she lived in the worst part of town and my brother is currently financially taking care of her.
Question: How can we get ICE to take this case seriously? Beyond stealing some of my brother’s money, she has also taken legal deed documents.

It's your brothers business how, where, and to whom he gives his money. If he is being scammed, and you and everyone else warned him, then when he inevitably realizes he is being taken for a fool he will just have to suck up his losses.

In regards to the "legal deed documents"...what exactly are these doc's and to whom do they belong?


It seems very odd to me that you are on a internet advice site asking random people, rather than dropping a few hundred with a local attorney. Especially as you made such a point of the wealth of your family.

 

[guiness]

The documents were property deeds from my brother's friend (the deeds were located outside of the United States, in the Caribbean) who did not want to implicate my brother in a legal situation. My family has already spent quite a bit of money on private detectives who found no information about this woman, legally she does not exists. As for the money my parents have spent on legal advice and protective documents, that is my parents prerogative. Thank you for your advice.

 

[Shadowbunny]

... she has also taken legal deed documents.

What do you mean by the above? What do you think she's going to be able to do with those "legal deed documents" just by having them in her possession?

 

[Just Blue]

You're welcome.
Perhaps one of the attorney volunteers on this site will advise...so check back in later.

 

[guiness]

Again, the question still remains. What do I need to do to have ICE investigate this woman? Can anyone answer this question? All of my information is online, all the way from my properties, my tax liability, mine and my husband's salary, our assets, etc. Why does an illegal immigrant has more rights than me?

 

[cbg]

There is nothing you can do to force ICE to investigate this woman.

Once you make the report to ICE, it's on them to decide what is the best use of their resources. If they decide that there are other priorities than your report, there is no law you can invoke and no action you can take that will require them to change their minds.

 

[guiness]

As a tax payer I....!

 

[Just Blue]

Again, the question still remains. What do I need to do to have ICE investigate this woman? Can anyone answer this question? All of my information is online, all the way from my properties, my tax liability, mine and my husband's salary, our assets, etc. Why does an illegal immigrant has more rights than me?

How are your assets at risk from this woman?

 

[cbg]

As a tax payer I....!

Being a tax payer does not entitle you to personal service.

 

[Just Blue]

My brother knows and understands our parents net worth. Our parents paid for me and my three siblings education, so neither one of us owe any student loans from our college education. Our education is free and clear. Our parents also provided their children with cars at their expense.

Sorry...I still don't see how any of that ^^ put's your personal assets at risk.

 

[Just Blue]

@Taxing Matters

@despritfreya

 

[adjusterjack]

How can we get ICE to take this case seriously?

What do you mean by that? Have you talked to an investigator at ICE? Do you have his or her name and phone number? Have you made a written report? Has somebody at ICE said "Oh, we aren't going to take this seriously"? In other words, what have you done so far to get ICE to take this case seriously? Nobody on the internet is going to be able to make any suggestions until you reveal what has transpired to date.

 

[Taxing Matters]

Again, the question still remains. What do I need to do to have ICE investigate this woman?

All you can do is what you evidently have done already: report to ICE that she is an alien with an expired visa. ICE then will decide what priority to put on that. And I can tell you that the priority on that will be quite low right now, at least until such time as she is CONVICTED of a crime. Why? Because (1) ICE has too many other things on its plate right now, including the current immigrant crisis at the Mexican border and (2) because the Biden administration plans to try passing an immigration bill that will legalize the status of many aliens who are currently in this country illegally.

Why does an illegal immigrant has more rights than me?

She doesn't have more rights than you do.

And ICE's failure to act doesn't impact you. The only person whose assets are at risk here is your brother, and it's up to him what to do with his stuff. Your concern for your brother is admirable, but you've told him your concerns and he still wants to be with her and support her. That happens to be HIS right, stupid though it may turn out to be.

 

[Shadowbunny]

She has represented herself as an International business and finance specialist with no money to her name. So, I guess, is that she will probably sell fraudulent properties to unsuspecting individuals in South America.

How do you suppose she'd be able to sell properties that don't have her name on the deed?

Perhaps your concerns are so overblown that ICE is not taking you seriously.