GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Guatemalan national will spend months in custody for conspiring to give counterfeit permanent resident cards and Social Security numbers to people living in the United States illegally, according to federal prosecutors.
Norma Ayala, 35, who is from Guatemala and living in the U.S. illegally, was sentenced to eight months in custody for conspiracy to transfer false United States Social Security cards and Permanent Resident cards to people who were also living in the country illegally, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Michigan said Monday.
Feds accuse three of selling counterfeit documents
The investigation into Ayala and two other people, began in 2024. Homeland Security investigators found that she and codefendants Rigoberto Vasquez-Vasquez and Edgidio Vasques-Mencho were making, selling and advertising fake documentation to people who were living in the U.S. illegally. They said it happened on “a number of occasions” in 2024 and 2025 and the group was working in the Grand Rapids area.
Investigators say Ayala took orders, collected biographical data and photographs that would be used in the fake documents. She would then pass the information on to a co-conspirator, deliver the finished documents and collect payment…