By Tim McGlone
The Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK
For the second time this year, immigration agents say they have uncovered a phony immigration document mill in Virginia Beach, according to court filings made public Monday.
Illegal immigrants could pay $110 to get papers that looked legitimate enough to gain employment, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in the court filing.
Armando "Luis" Gutierrez-Tlaczani, the suspected ringleader of the operation, reportedly was based in the Pembroke section of the city. He was ordered jailed without bond Monday after an appearance in U.S. District Court.
Gutierrez-Tlaczani was arrested last week and charged with selling phony immigration documents from his apartment. The court papers did not list a specific address.
Gutierrez-Tlaczani would receive a package containing phony documents at least once a week from someone in Los Angeles, according to a court affidavit filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Brett D. Kolb.
He would then sell the documents - phony green cards and Social Security cards - to illegal immigrants who needed them to work in the United States, Kolb said in the filing.
Postal authorities identified 16 packages delivered from Los Angeles to Gutierrez-Tlaczani's address since April. Records do not say how many documents were delivered.
Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement began investigating Gutierrez-Tlaczani in August after an unidentified informant told them what was going on at the apartment, the court record says.
The agents sent the informant to the apartment to buypurchase documents. After paying Gutierrez-Tlaczani $110 in August, the informant received a green card that was registered to a Polish woman and a Social Security card with a number that belongs to a child, Kolb said in the papers.
The agents later learned that Gutierrez-Tlaczani had been deported four times since 1996. On two of those occasions, he was deported following convictions for cocaine trafficking, according to the court records.
The agent in charge of the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office did not return phone calls seeking additional information. The lawyer for Gutierrez-Tlaczani declined to comment following Monday's court hearing.
Gutierrez-Tlaczani will remain jailed pending grand jury proceedings. Immigration agents have filed a notice of deportation against him.
This is the second suspected immigration document mill that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has uncovered in Virginia Beach this year.
In March, Narciso Salas and his wife Maria Salas were arrested after agents discovered the couple selling phony documents from a taco stand on Virginia Beach Boulevard.
The Salases pleaded guilty in federal court to selling fake documents. Narciso Salas was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. His wife was sentenced to two years and two months in prison.
Tim McGlone, (757) 446-2343, tim.mcglone@pilotonline.com






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It has nothing to do with race
It is all about Illegal Immigrants Bobby K. You know those people here who shouldn't be here. Legal minorities I have no problem with, but I have a huge problem with my tax dollars supporting people who should not be here in the first place. Whatever it takes to deport, jail or close the borders I'm all infavor of at any costs. Social Security cards should be verified by all businesses through the national data base. That process is only one step, but it's a beginning. In my opinion it should be against the law to rent to any illegal, and jail time for the landlord. The laws regarding illegals are not stiff enough and that too needs to be corrected. BTW I'm a liberal, but this should not be about politics, it's simply "illegal".
Bad news for racists
According to U.S. Census Bureau's estimation for 2005, 45% of American children under the age of 5 are minorities. Legal minorities. What are you white goobers going to do when you are a minority? You clearly believe a minority majority will turn the US into a third world country. Maybe you should hop in your trailers and get out now.
Enough is enough!
Everyone needs to start calling and writing our local officials and press them to start doing something that gives results with cracking down on illegal immigration in our area. Take back our city! Its time to have our own lobby for citizens to work against those of businesses that feed on illegal immigrants or other special interests that go against that of the needs of citizens. Lets make sure all who come here or have businesses follow our laws and not make up their own! This latest arrest of an ID theft mill shows how illegal behavior only breeds even more illegal behavior. Enough is enough so wake up Virginia Beach officials before it gets even worse!
Got That Right.
Illegal immigrants are not paying taxes, but they are still getting the benefits that we, as Americans, work so hard for! You all are right. It is costing us a fortune to keep them here, and it is costing even more to hold them in jails until they can be deported. I think that we should just stop waiting for something to happen and do it ourselves! The world isn't magically going to become a wonderful epiphany just because we all want it to. It's about time someone stepped it up! If we are all waiting for someone else to do something here, nothing will get done in this nation. Throw them out! It's not like they can never return anyway! There are leegal ways to get things done in the United States. Use them.
Jail vs. Productive Work
These guys come and work cheap adding value to mostly to their bosses bottom line, who pay taxes. But instead most of the local hill billies want to spend tax money throwing these people in Jail. I guess this menatality explains the state of affairs in America. The richest man in the world is now Mexican. The richest family is Indian, catch the drift.... If we keep thinking we can bomb & jail people into submission we will go the way of Argentina and Brazil in the 1900's when they were the richest to a 90 year depression. These people's crime is working? Its a crime to work is as silly as the crime to help slaves escape the south. Let this man go free as he is just helping the economy. When these people work, we all gain!
What do I think?
I think their rear ends should rot in jail, and it's time we started writing and calling our elected officials and telling them so. I'm sick to death of our tax dollars going towards illegal immigrants. Damn it, if you aren't here legally then get the heck out. Nothing else is acceptable.
Hilarious..
First off, Miss Highland, IL. Your state's immigrant population costs the country 3.1 billion dollars a year. Let's not throw stones from glass houses. Illegal documentation's been a problem in the country for years. The war on "terror" has only served as an excuse to finally get around to making it an issue to make politicians look functional. We don't need to waste money on all this. We need to reform the immigration system as a whole. Green card lotteries, countries excluded because "too many people have already come from this country". If we'd of done that in the early 1800's, we'd still be a third world country in size. These folks making documents aren't the *ONLY* problem in the system here!
I find it humorous....
...when individuals use the argument, "They are doing jobs Americans don't want to do." So, thirty years ago (prior to Reagan's amnesty), who were doing these jobs....uhhh....Americans!!!! And Ms. Rodriquez, there is nothing with our Constitution it's the politicians that refuse to follow it or the Bill of Rights that need to be replaced, not our founding document.
Time for a new constitutional convention
The only way we are ever going to effect change in this country in this day and age would be for 2/3 majority of states to come together and request a new constitution be drafted since the old one clearly isn't working.
Corporate America runs this country and no one can say otherwise. Those who don't agree with the people with the money will quickly find themselves assassinated. When you go up against big business you're taking your life in your hands.
I for one am sick of the government today but hell if I ran I'd never be elected because of a little thing called honesty in the election process, and intolerance of idiocy in the states.
We are surely headed to hell in a hand basket the way things are going now. Time for a major change.
Prove it's treason
Yes, it's illegal to produce and sell false Social Security cards, etc., but I really doubt it falls under the category of treason. Yes, those responsible should indeed face jail time, but I hardly think it counts as treason. And I fully disagree with Pat Buchanan's assement.
Finally someone else agrees
I agree. I'm tired of people calling me a bigot. I happen to love the Spanish language and diversity in America when it is done legally. The gov't is for illegals having a free ride with Americans tax dollars just so they can get their vote at election time. Those dems should be charged with treason. I worked for a large,corrupt health ins co.in Va beach that still employs illegals for their landscaping. My guess is their too cheap to pay Americans. As far as I know, there is no shortage of Americans that don't want to do landscaping so that excuse doesn't fly. They need to come up with some new material for their argument. This is America-stingy employers should be paying the many unemployed Americans looking for work. What a shame.
A document mill for illegal immigrants in Virginia Beach?
Where was it, City Hall or Police Headquarters?
This is Treason
I thought we were at war. When someone tries to sell documents that are illegal to other Illegals, when in a time of war, they should get the firing squad or bring back public hanging. This is Treason. We have way too many Illegals in our jail that we citizens have to pay the bill. When the Election of 2008 comes we need to vote out these idiots who do not look out for the American People and to these Businesses who hire these Illegals and other fools who keep trying to make these Illegal Documents make them pay not with only a fine but Jail Time to boot.
We need those people who want to come to America Legally and go through the proper channels just like our Ancestors did. Wake up America!!! We need to fight what our God given right!
Pat Buchanan is right.
We are declining rapidly as a nation and will soon be a third world country. Our politicians are so consumed by the efforts of their own enrichment, that they have all comitted treason in pursuit of it. It is time for massive change. July 14, 1789 comes to mind.
National Security issue
This is a National Security issue, we need to track these document mills down and put them in jail. It's a shame the illegals are commiting yet another crime by buying and using the fake documents
Virginia Beach Sanctuary City!
What do you expect when VB is proud to be a sanctuary city? I can't wait till the feds cut off money to all these sanctuary cities and they become sanctuary ghettos!
This is just plain backwards........
This typical Government. The citizens will be paying the price over and over. When the Govt. refuses to secure our borders but arrest these crooks that are selling citizens information in some states Government refuses to send out no match letters (SS numbers) to employers. Illegal immigration is gooooood. They just wanna do jobs Americans will not do you know like Carpenters, Brick masons, Roofers, plumbers, General Contractors.....or Verizon Sub Contractors!!! Geez