Posted on 07/15/2004 6:49:50 PM PDT by txdoda
The House appropriations subcommittee that funds the Treasury Department, on a 9-7 party-line vote, blocked a Treasury rule that permits banks to accept the matricula consular as a valid ID document.
The measure's sponsor, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said use of a foreign ID card viewed as insecure by the FBI and Homeland Security Department presents a national security threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Open borders and illegal immigrants are the problem, not a friggin' ID card. Still, a step in the right direction.
It's about time some common sense comes into part of the Congress!!!!!!
535 people make policy that has the potential to harm 240 million citizens.
Sounds like good news.
Along party lines!!! What the heck is wrong with these Rats? Are they bound and determined to ruin America???
Doesn't take many brain-waves to understand that!!!!!!
Yes, a step in the right direction. I'm sick of the infrastructure that accommodates illegal immigrants.
Here's a litle good news to 'ping' about....
Agreed, however these foreign ID's allow the illegals to live & 'travel' very easily through out the USA.
(Baby steps.)
It's about time some common sense comes into part of the Congress!!!!!! >>>>>
PAST TIME !!
Here's something that might interest you. It's an excerpt from an article I found last August.
Customer Identification Program
Final Rules At Last!
By Mack Rudisill, Kirchman Regulatory Service
Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act required the regulatory agencies to establish rules requiring all U.S. financial institutions to have programs to identify their customers. The proposed rule, published last year, generated about 500 formal comments, many of them rightly critical of the proposal. The agencies have now released the final rule, and it remedies some, but not all, of the defects identified by the commenters. The agencies say they will issue "supplementary guidance" later, which may help with some of the remaining problem areas.
Effective Date
Banks may begin implementing their programs now. Every bank must have a complying program in force and operating by October 1, 2003.
The identification number for a non-U.S. person may be a TIN or Social Security number, an alien identification card number, or the number on a passport or other government-issued document that shows the person's nationality or residence and bears a photo of the person or some "similar safeguard." In the preamble to the regulation, the agencies made clear that they would not tackle the current hot issue of the "matricula consular" (MC) cards issued by some Latin American countries to their illegal aliens in this country. But news reports indicate that most of the states in Mexico do not recognize Mexico's own MC cards as valid ID, and our General Services Administration will not recognize them for access to federal property. Therefore we believe any bank that permits their use as identifying documents could be hung out to dry by our government and media if the next terrorist attack is perpetrated by people who got bank accounts using them.
Well, Mexico itself does not recognize matricula cosular cards as valid IDs.
Keep the disincentives coming!
Thankyou Rep. Culberson and all who voted with you! One for the people for a change.
They paid Mexican consular officials and their representatives in the parking lots, good money in good faith and now the Congressmen have made this investment in multiple identities almost valueless. What was the purpose in buying proof that an alien was actually the three people he said he was, if no one will accept that documented proof?
see post 13 (please).
Ping!
Wait, I thought there's no difference between the GOP and the RATS.
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