1993 ARREST WHILE DEFENDING U.S.A. AGAINST PAKISTANIS WHO BOMBED THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

AFFIDAVIT-A

UNITED STATES vs. INS EMPLOYEES

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT

(Under [EOIR Docket No. 176; A.G. Order No. 3783-2016] RIN 1125-AA72)

EDWIN RIVERA, being duly sworn, deposes and says:

1. I am the party named as the applicant in the above request.
2. I have a good claim for the accreditations requested.
3. Around February 1990 a crime was reported to me at the INS office.
4. I was at the INS office with clients of John J. Montes, attorney at law; he asked me to accompany his clients that day while they were submitting their applications at the counter. They were applying for benefits under the Late Amnesty.
5. I reported the crime to the FBI in March 1990. The agent concerned asked me for identification, and I told him that I was an accountant.
6. I told the agent that a lady had come up to me at the INS office with about thirty-five (35) immigrants, complaining that she refused to pay fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) for each of her customers who were trying to receive the Employment Authorization Document (EAD). Furthermore, she said that she was paying a Dominican man who was, in turn, paying the Supervisor the money. She was angry because the customers did not have the money and were having to go home without the card now. I told the lady that I would try to see how I could help her. I also told the FBI agent that I had discussed the issue with some friends who were COPS, and they said that the problem had to do with the FBI.
7. I state that the FBI agent asked for my assistance in investigating a crime reported by this applicant around March 15, 1990. He asked me to find “dirty” information about the Dominican man involved.
8. Our attorney, John J. Montes, oversaw the preparation of the forms for the customers. He told me that it was my duty to help the FBI.
9. Around April 17, 1990, I learned from people in the Bronx—our community—and Upper Manhattan, that the Dominican man was associated with the ferry that had arrived from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico before 1988.
10. I purchased airline tickets for around April 18, 1990, left early in the morning for Puerto Rico, and returned the next day. When I reached there around noon, I quickly took a taxi to the Ports and Terminals main office. An employee of the office asked me my reason for visiting, and I told him that I wanted to see the list of people who had managed to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic. He called his supervisor and asked me for identification. He then took photocopies of the front and back of the original business card the FBI agent had given me. I asked him to give me the photocopies; he stapled the two, and I put them in my wallet.
11. I learned that the ferry had crashed around February 24, 1988, and it was the last time it could dock in Puerto Rico. I also learned that the only document the passengers needed in order to be on the ferry was their birth certificate and their passport.
12. I left for San Juan around 4 P.M. and started looking for a hotel to stay for the night after my arrival. I found a hotel, had dinner, and was in bed around 11 P.M. The next morning, I woke around 4 A.M. to have breakfast and rush to the airport.
13. At the airport, on being asked for identification, I handed the INS inspector a copy of the business card of the FBI agent I was working for. She asked me who  the agent was, and I told her I was collecting information for the agent. She enquired if I was working for the FBI, to which I answered affirmatively. She then had me detained and called the FBI office in Puerto Rico.
14. This ordeal kept me on the island for one week until the federal magistrate dismissed the charges of impersonation of a federal agent levied against me.
15. I was bailed out by my mother.
16. The FBI agent who took my documents had kept them in his car since he figured that I was going to be released and sent back to New York.
17. Back in New York, around April 25, 1990, I told the agent I was working for about what had happened.
18. In order to gain access to more information, I moved to 1133 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York City on May 1, 1991.
19. The information about the activities at the INS was pouring. Not only were Hispanic immigrants involved, but also Indian, Pakistanis, and Columbians. Every group was dealing hash, heroin, and cocaine.
20. My search for credible information took me across the world.
21. I traveled to India to find out how the immigrants entered illegally.
22. I found out that Pakistanis entered the country disguised as Indian nationals. Passports were sold with one’s picture and personal details. Some Pakistanis placed an order for more than twenty passports at once, for their people, and the documents took about ten days to be ready.
23. They traveled to England, and from there they went to the Bahamas.
24. From the Bahamas, they traveled to Florida on speedboats at 1 A.M.
25. Their stomachs would be filled with heroin capsules made from plastic gloves. They would drop the load in Florida, which would then be brought to the North East for sale in the streets.
26. I then traveled to Colombia to find out how Colombians entered the country illegally.
27. I discovered that they purchased the documentations of American children who had gone missing from the country in 1975. They would cross the border, enter the U.S.A. and apply, using the birth certificate, for any documentation that would involve recoding their fingerprints. Their prints would then be registered in our system under the new name and become part of the mainstream. Following this, they would apply for an American passport. They traveled back from the U.S.A. with that document. Things were different back then; they were able to return to the country with a load of cocaine or heroin in their stomach and go undetected.
28. I also traveled to the Dominican Republic to find out how the people entered the U.S.A.
29. They had something called “machete,” which were essentially documents purchased in Colombia or Venezuela—birth certificates, passports, etc.
30. I then traveled to Poland.
31. Before I left, the FBI sent me a translator to travel with me, all expenses paid. Our mission was to investigate LOT, the airline.
32. We went to Poland in 1992, but were not very successful. The Russians had just departed the country, but the people’s minds were filled with distrust. When we reached the storage facility of LOT, the lady there told us that she had the files we were looking for, but we had to return the next day to access them. When we reached there the next day, she turned on us. She said that the records were no longer available. The translator argued with her, but I told her that it was not worth it, and we left.
33. I traveled to Canada to find out how the immigrants crossed the border illegally.
34. They entered through the Windsor tunnel, hiding inside trucks that are normally used to carry vegetables and other products.
35. Entering from Canada by land, over the Washington State border on the north, is relatively easy. And there are many other simple ways of crossing the border. Ii is not like crossing the border of Mexico; it is a lot easier.
36. In 1992–3, however, crossing over from Mexico was very easy. Drugs crossed our borders relatively easily. The financing for the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, I believe, came from sales made by “Curly.”
37. He was the kingpin who probably paid thousands for EADs. He always stayed very close to the INS. In New Jersey, he had many drivers in the parking area of the INS. In New York City, he purchased the candy store directly across the INS office on 26 Street. In New Jersey, the INS had offices in two locations: Paterson and Newark, New Jersey.
38. Curly had his hands in every candy store or regular grocery store near the offices of the INS.
39. I learned about Curly and his people when they came to my office on 1133 Broadway.
40. We had a meeting with special agents from INS, Department of State, and IRS, in June 1992, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, in a private conference room. There, a retired New York State Trooper and I presented information gathered from Colombia, Poland, India, Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Bahamas, and Mexico, and pointed out the lack of services in the vital records office around the United States. For a person who died before turning ten years old, in any state other than the state where he was born, there was no system in place to match the death certificate with the birth certificate.
41. I traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Mr. Rodriguez, Chairperson of the Missing and Exploited Children. He called an FBI agent to participate in the conversation, as the findings were very important.
42. Fingerprints of children should be recorded in schools every year.
43. Airports must install a fingerprint system that would confirm who the person was.
44. Fingerprints of children change between the ages seven (7) and twelve (12). This means that if we the system is not updated, we would be dealing with a generation of people who are not citizens of the U.S.A.

Right now, we might be dealing with people whom we believe to be citizens.

Edwin Rivera, Affiant