Good point. Any blanket exemption would render all cards meaningless. And face it, you and I can duplicate just about any card on the computers in front of us. I've actually done it, but had to mess them up to look authentic. Email me -- jackelopebreeder@hotmail.com -- and I'll send you a matricula consulares in the name of your choice that will pass muster in any of the misguided locales here in the States that decided to accept them. Just for fun I issued matriculas to both of my dogs.
Locally, most of the legal border crossers are well known to the agents at the Ports of Entry. Take my friend Hector as an example. He crosses three of four times every week. I even set up his daughter's wedding reception here on this side of the border.
But then Luis from Xoahaca shows up at the POE and wants to be just waved through...with the bed of his truck just a whisker away from erasing the tread from his tires. Hmmm. I personally would subject him to fingerprints, retinal scan, DNA testing and a body cavity search. Sorry, Luis, but we ran out of KY...take a deep breath and try to relax.
the market value of the BCCs (or Laser Visas) must have shot up with the Fox/Bush announcement. Now these documents can be stolen and doctored (or created via computer) and sold to illegals of any nationality without fear that the information they contain will be verified at the port of entry.
6,000 of these documents (issued in Tijuana) were stolen from DHL (the courier company that the State Department uses to deliver them) a few years back. They are often stolen from individuals in Tijuana, and I would expect more of this kind of activity now.
Meanwhile, the consulate in Tijuana continues to churn these cards out at the rate of 750 per day. Bush may need the congress to pass his guest worker program, but he can (and is) fill up the country with illegals without Congress' help.