US immigration agent 'demanded sex for green card'

A federal immigration official who was recorded demanding sex from a young Colombian woman in exchange for a green card has been arrested on corruption charges, prosecutors said Friday.

The woman, who is married to an American citizen, said she gave in to one demand for oral sex because she was afraid, but she also used a mobile phone hidden in her purse to record the December encounter and the conversation that preceded it.

Days later she went to The New York Times to tell her story. She also called the district attorney’s office.

Queens prosecutors alleged Isaac Baichu, an adjudication officer at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Garden City, Long Island, threatened to hold up the woman’s application and even deport her relatives if she did not acquiesce.