I believe it is. I've been telling people for a while now that illegals are the catylist for the dramatic increase of identity theft in our country.
As far as privacy laws are concerned, I think the appointed heads of these agencies (appointed by Bush) are just saying that as justification for not forwarding this information to the INS (or whatever they are called these days), local U.S. Attorney's offices for prosecution and other Federal and State law enforcement agencies. If the IRS wanted to prosecute you for tax fraud, they would have no problems forwarding your confidential information to the U.S. Attorney's Office for your prosecution.
Yes it damn sure is.
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Summary of The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act:
The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act as outlined by the Library of Congress.
Section two of The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for aggravated identity theft. Further it prescribes sentences, to be imposed in addition to the punishments provided for the related felonies. These additional punishments are: 1. Two years' imprisonment for knowingly transferring, possessing, or using, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person during and in relation to specified felony violations (including theft of public property, theft by a bank officer or employee, theft from employee benefit plans, various fraud and immigration offenses, and false statements regarding Social Security and Medicare benefits)
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* Reducing any sentence for the related felony to take into account the sentence imposed for such a violation.
* Providing for concurrent terms of imprisonment for a violation of this Act and a violation under any other Act.
Section three of The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act - Expands the existing identify theft prohibition to cover;
* Possession of a means of identification of another with intent to commit specified unlawful activity.
* Increase penalties for violations to include acts of domestic terrorism within the scope of a prohibition against facilitating an act of international terrorism.
But hey, it is just the cute fuzzy `lil border bunnies that are our economice "miracle" that will save our nation therefor they can march in our streets demanding the vote and ordering us Gringos off the northern continent blah blah blah.
Do we have to hang the lawers first or can we start with the politicans in Congress?