The Guadalajara Reporter

Web of corruption unearthed at Jalisco Immigration

A network of employees at the Jalisco delegation of the National Immigration Institute (INM) has been colluding with criminals in other countries to bring foreigners into Mexico and provide them with phony documentation that allowed them to live in the country as legal residents, the agency’s director Ricardo Vera Lira revealed this week.

INM staff apparently registered foreigners from Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East as being married to Mexican citizens, thus giving them an automatic right to become permanent residents. 

Initial investigations suggest the officials charged around 7,000 dollars to issue each phony document.

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