Posted on 07/05/2007 8:12:28 PM PDT by Baladas
. PORTLAND - Fictitious Social Security numbers and green cards are cheap and widely available, and getting them is the first step for many undocumented immigrants arriving in Oregon.
But workers and federal officials say increased immigration enforcement - such as June's raid at the Fresh Del Monte Produce plant in North Portland and the detention of 167 workers - has pushed some undocumented workers to shift from forgery to identity theft.
“Enforcement is deterring people, but it's also having another effect,” said Kevin Sibley, unit chief for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's work site enforcement. “Aliens are finding it more difficult to find jobs using the traditional counterfeit documents. So they're willing to commit the extra step to beat the system and get a job. The next step is using someone else's identity.”
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The road south goes both ways, push them in that direction.
Turn to? lol.....as if this phenomenon started after the govt's attempt at amnesty failed.
If enforcement is “causing” them to steal identities, what is our government doing that is causing them to rape and drive drunk?
It may have risen when people saw that the Senate was not even considering identity theft to be a serious enough crime to keep a person from receiving a Z visa.
No wonder I’ve been seeing so many Latino’s with last names like Schweiss, Cohen, and DeVito lately!
Yep, it’s trying to portray the criminals as the victims.
PC Rule - it’s always the gringo’s fault.
Portland was also Atzlan once? I mean, I thought illegal aliens were only taking the land back that was theirs once. /sarcasm
“It may have risen when people saw that the Senate was not even considering identity theft to be a serious enough crime to keep a person from receiving a Z visa”
Or rape, or drug dealing, or DUI murders.....or anything!
Makes no difference to me which crime it is—identity theft or forged documents. Both are, amongst other things, intentional fraud against the people of this country using the Social Security System—isn’t it?
Wondering what bubble this butthead “Journalist” has been living in.
Well Mr. Sibley, perhaps if you were doing something to earn you pay check, this would not be happening.
“Illegal immigrants turn to ID theft”
Only news to the clueless and the willfully blind...
meaning most of the MSM.
However they have no problem identifying anybody that helped beat
back the vampirebill (it ain’t dead yet!) and automatically labeling
them bigots, nativists and racists.
Well, don’t we get $4.4 Billion that Senate decided was urgently needed to contain illegal immigration? Or was that money only needed to pass the buck, er, the bill?
Thanks for that statement, now it makes sense to me. Gee these guys have been stealing identities for years!
Just like in Forbidden Planet the ‘monsters of the id’ are stomping around invisibly, to democrats anyway.
Just stealing the identities that Americans won’t steal...
And that's OK, according to the "journalist" who wrote this. Just like when I need to get somewhere I should steal a car, when I need money I should rob a bank... I can't be blamed because I'm trying to make a better life for myself and my family. I wonder if this retard "journalist" would mind if I stole his identity.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Get use to it....these threat tactics are how pro-illegal immigration activists work since they have no real argument...it's going to be many variations of "you racists gringos MADE us do it..." for a long time to come....
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