Posted on 02/13/2007 1:45:16 PM PST by ckilmer
Credit card aimed at illegal immigrants Bank of America’s card for those with no Social Security number, credit
NEW YORK - Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.
The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said.
Bank of America tested the program last year at five branches in Los Angeles, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Journal said.
The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year, the paper said. A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17130792/
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If you want to see something that wil have the illegals scurrying south back across the border, let them get in arrears with a credit card company!
lol.
Sounds a good loophole card for someone with poor credit.
or a fake identity
If Bank of America is really serious about this, they're going to have to be willing to issue credit cards to American citizens who choose not to reveal their Social Security numbers on their credit card applications. And if the bank refuses, lawsuits should ensue...
..under what name?. Since they don't have to produce a valid ID, no SS number....
If I had a BoA card I'd close my account immediately. There will be illegals who will not even use their real names and addresses (just stay long enough for the card to land in the mailbox) then spend spend spend until BoA catches on, and walk away to do it again using another name. Then the other cardholders in BoA will end up paying the debts thru interest rates etc...
Agreed. One less place for my social security number to be stolen (stolen in some laptop left at the airport).
Wonder who pays if the holder defaults, skips town, returns to Mexico and parts south, etc.
Let me guess -- the rest of us with more fees and penalties, higher interest rates.
Why scurry back home? Just change your name from Jose Lopez Gonzalez to Jose Lopez Gonzalez.
BoA caters to the illegal crowd, I almost opened up an account with them when I first came to Texas thank goodness I didn't.
Correctomundo! I am going to open a checking account and refuse to give them my social security number. I will tell them I am an 'undocumented Viking'. Let em try to turn me down and see how much crap I cause right in the middle of their lobby. I will then see an attorney.
I would hope that many others do exactly what I plan on doing. I don't know how they can issue this stuff without social security numbers when it is REQUIRED for American citizens!
closing accts ping :)
Closing all of them will take me about a month, but we are on track to do it.
This conference held in Ottawa in September will be seen years from now as our version of the The Wannsee Conference. The ethnic group cleansed will have been the average American citizen/taxpayer.
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform senior Nazis and senior Governmental administrators of plans for the "Final solution to the Jewish question" - the killing of all the 11 million Jews of Europe, a process now known as the Holocaust.
yep :)
I thought the IRS REQUIRED banks to get proof of your SSN before opening a bank account. I can add this to the many, many reasons I refuse to be a B of A customer.
Good point.
Sounds like one more thing honest Americans are going to pay for.
Great idea there B. of A.
Just raise your f-ing user fees again.
According to my understanding (and Fox news), you have to have a B of A checking account for three months prior to getting a credit card account. And for that checking account you have to have a SS number and an ID.
And I hope everyone uses the name John Smith with ID #111-11-1111 or no ID at all. This is not funny we taxpayers will get stuck with another bill due to illegals!
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