Posted on 02/13/2007 6:58:38 AM PST by Calpernia
Mexican nationals living in the Bowling Green area will be able Saturday to apply for identification cards from their government, and apply for or renew passports.
The Consulate of Mexico in Indianapolis, collaborating with the International Center of Bowling Green, will operate a mobile consulate Saturday at The Presbyterian Church, 1003 State St., beginning at 8 a.m.
About 150 passports will be available, and about 550 consular identification cards, or matricula consulars, according to a joint press release from the International Center and Mexican consulate.
�We are anticipating something in the neighborhood of 700 people,� said Matthew Covington, pastor of The Presbyterian Church.
�We were approached some months ago by the International Center,� he said. �Marty Deputy is a member of this church, so we do have a close relationship with that organization.�
Deputy, director of the International Center, suggested that the church allow one day for Mexicans to seek official documents that will help them open bank accounts, qualify for loans or become renters, Covington said.
�This is a good thing, obviously, because it allows people who have come here perhaps for seasonal jobs to have a more comfortable life and, really, a more normal existence,� he said.
The Mexican government issues matricula consulars to its nationals living in other countries. When Mexico began pressing to have matricula consulars widely accepted in the United States, it drew strong protests, mostly from conservative groups.
Those groups argued that providing the ID cards would encourage illegal immigration, and legitimize illegal aliens already here. The lax standards for their issuance � compared to the requirements for getting legal immigration documents � could encourage terrorists to use them as a means of moving in U.S. society, some said.
The most common use for the matricula consular in the United States is to open a bank account. Hundreds of American banks accept it as identification.
Thirteen states � but not Kentucky � accept it as valid ID.
Mexican citizens need registration tickets to apply for documents. For tickets, call the International Center at 781-8336. Leave the family name, address, city, state, ZIP code, number of passports and/or number of matricula consulars requested. The tickets will be mailed.
Applying for a matricula consular costs $26. One of the following is needed to apply:
�Military service card or pre-entrance military service card, active or expired.
�A Mexican passport, active or expired.
�Declaration of Mexican citizenship.
People without those documents can still get consular ID with an original birth certificate and one of the following:
�Voter registration card.
�U.S. drivers license.
�U.S. residency card.
�Certificate of completion of educational studies, with photograph and official seal, from elementary, middle or high school, or college.
Applicants must show proof of residency with a document bearing the applicant�s name, such as a rent receipt, utility bill, insurance form or pay stub, or general mail showing address and name, or original money transfer to Mexico.
For a passport, people need to fill out an application, provide a birth certificate and an official ID with a photograph. Two photos will be needed for a passport, without glasses and on a white background.
Original birth certificates won�t be returned; they�ll be sent to Mexico for archiving.
Married women who want to place their married names on passports need the same documents, plus an original marriage certificate.
Minors seeking passports must have the same documentation, and preferably will have both parents there. Both parents also need to provide official ID.
For renewing passports, applicants need their previous passports. Minors need an original birth certificate plus official ID for both parents.
This story was posted from the Web Archives since it is from 2004
So matricula cards allow immigrants to vote?
I want to know why Illegals have voter ID cards.
Voter registration cards for Mexico, I would assume, to show Mexican citizenship.
This is Kentucky.
That is an interesting thought; but a search of their domain data shows volunteer calls for voter registration:
Transporting clients from their homes to medical facilities (Neighbor to Neighbor Program). Adult outreach through the personal care attendant program and computer training. Need volunteers to help with voter registration and transportation to polls. Teach basic reading, math, basic household management skills; office work; assist with home modification projects. Volunteers also needed for home and yard spring cleanup. Please contact (270) 781-8336.
BTW, anyone looking for a job, the International Center
Western Kentucky Refugee Mutual Assistance Association, Inc. is in need of Russian and Turkish translators.
A mobile consulate...How original...
I see the need to get ICE in on this, follow the "mobile consolate", if they do anything that violates any traffic laws...Pull them over and check them ALL out thoroughly...
And if they are stopped rendering services to "the peeps"...I'd say that is probably cause to warrant the investigation of anyones citizenship or residency status...
And if they don't check out...Bingo...We can roll in the "mobile ICE wagon" and head them straight to the out processing facility...
Got to be some way to arrest and charge those rendering services to illegal alien criminals or something...
But I have my doubts about anyone having brass ones to take this non-P.C. enforcement of our laws anyway...
Pretty sad when we have such a great heads up on this...
"We don't need no steenkin' matricula cards to vote."
They can vote where, when, AND as often as they want----their countless big bully legal groups make sure of that---with the help of politicans.
Our system of democracy has been hopelessly compromised by these illegal invaders. They have no respect for US laws, rules, regs, or our sacrosanct customs.
Most of 'em are drug runners earning the $30,000 fees for getting them across the border by running drugs into the US for South and Central American drug lords.
You see these so-called underpaid hamburger flippers and lettuce pickers wearing designer clothing, buying high priced liqueur, etc. Where are they getting the money of they are so poor, just coming here "for a better life?"
Course there's always stealing---one ring of border thieves entered several realty offices on the pretext of looking at homes. One of the thieves asks where the rest room is. Then he would slip into the back room where the realtors had their purses----and steal cash, credit cards and IDs.
Remember, if they are diplomats, they can't be stopped by local police under the Vienna Convention. This would go to the State Department.
Well, if I was going to get technical about this...So I will...
You are correct, diplomats are off-limits to a certain degree...Any investigation has to be approved by the state department and after full and public review by the U.N., so as to give a chance for the diplomats conducting the illegal acts can get it shut down and all the evidence destroyed before domestic law enforcement gets a crack at it...
But, if activity suggesting illegal or criminal acts are directly observed by local law enforcement, then they are commissioned to act within their procedures and state law...
If the consolate is mobile, all the better...easier...
But like I said...There doesn't seem to be much clanging of big (or even little) brass ones around here these days...
this is all part of the North American Union. However, try to vote in Mexico's elections, YOU CAN'T.
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