There are people coming into congressional offices complaining: We are having trouble getting access to our benefits. You ask them why. and they say it is because the person who gets the benefits is not in America. he is in Cuba and he cant get access to his benefits from Cuba. One woman told Miami immigration attorney Grisel Ybarra that her grandmother and two great aunts came to Florida. got approved for benefits. opened bank accounts and returned to Cuba. Month after month. the woman cashed their government checksabout $2.400 each time sending half to the women in Cuba and keeping the rest. They kept for themselves a 50 percent commission.
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Cuban immigrants are fraudulently accessing and misusing welfare benefits.