August 12, 2026 – Blanche busts Chinese sham marriage ring – 11 “naturalized” citizens arrested for over 1,000 fake marriages to obtain green cards

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The Trump Justice Department announced that 11 defendants have been charged in a sprawling, decade-long scheme that allegedly arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages, primarily between Chinese nationals and American citizens, to fraudulently obtain green cards.

Ten defendants were arrested Wednesday morning, according to the Justice Department. The eleventh was charged in the same two-count federal indictment.

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According to the indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York, the network operated from at least 2016 through July 2026. Chinese nationals paid facilitators as much as $100,000 each to be paired with willing U.S. citizens.

The American “spouses” received up to $30,000, often in installments tied to milestones in the green card process. Recruiters pocketed commissions around $5,000 per match.

Prosecutors say the defendants ran a full-service fraud machine: facilitators who identified Chinese customers, recruiters who hunted for Americans willing to play along, assistants who prepared the fraudulent immigration paperwork, and even officiants who staged the fake ceremonies. Sham weddings were arranged across the country — Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida — and even overseas in China and Vanuatu.

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BREAKING: Attorney General Todd Blanche just announced the ARRESTS of 11 “naturalized” US citizens from China who arranged over 1,000 SHAM MARRIAGES between Chinese nationals and Americans

De-naturalize EVERY SINGLE ONE of them

“This is one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in United States HISTORY,” Blanche said

“This scheme was not a quick fly by night operation but rather a years long multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people who would not or legally could not otherwise become citizens of the United States.”

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 8/12/2026)  (Archive)