Posted on 07/09/2007 2:21:39 PM PDT by westcoastwillieg
1200 WOAI news has learned that a fast growing racket among illegal immigrants threatens to derail any effort to include a 'tamper proof identification card' into any part of an immigration reform plan.
Officials tell 1200 WOAI news that for between $200 and $800, an illegal immigrant can easily rent the legal documents of a legal U.S. resident.
The illegal rents the Social Security card, U.S. Work Permit, and occasionally even a birth certificate from a U.S. hospital or state drivers license long enough to present them to an employer. If the employer checks them out, they come up legal because they are, in fact, legal.
Adelina Pruneda of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who agreed to speak about the general problem of identity abuse among illegals, says it is a growing worry.
"The criminal organization sells a Social Security card along with a drivers license and a green car, all together, and they charge anywhere between $200 and $600 depending on the authenticity of the entire document."
Officials tell 1200 WOAI news that for the purposes of employment, the illegal simply continues to use the name on the rented documents, which is usually a Latin American name. The renter then moves on to another city or another neighborhood so there is seldom any conflict between the two identities. One police officer familiar with the scam told 1200 WOAI news it is almost impossible for law enforcement to catch on unless the illegal commits another crime, like drunk driving, where fingerprints might be compared.
"If this guy lives a righteous life, and never has any reason to be fingerprinted, there is no way we can ever catch him," the officer said.
If a U.S. birth certificate is included in the rented documents, the illegal could obtain a U.S. passport, although it is impossible to tell whether that has occurred.
Pruneda says the employer would never have any reason to suspect fraud.
"It wasn't a fake Social Security number, it was a real Social Security number, it just didn't belong to that person," Pruneda says.
She says ICE and other agencies are doing what they can to explain to employers the intracies of document fraud.
"We are constantly working with all different companies to make sure they have an idea of what to look out for," she said.
This growing problem could cause serious complications for efforts to include a 'temper proof' i.d. card as part of immigration reform.
Of course
I would think that 10 guys using the same name and Social Security number across America would set off bells at the IRS office.
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Yeah, It should but they want the money rolling in. They don’t care, besides it’s secret - they can’t tell you if anyone else is using your SSN.
You know what gets me about all this illegal talk, is NOBODY talks about Mexico getting ITS act together! All you hear about is the “US has to do this, has to do that” what about MEXICO? Just what the hell is going on down there?
I use to work with iilegal Mexicans about 17 years ago doing landscaping who told me it`s so corrupt down there, if you are robbed or if even a family member is murdered, you have to pay off the cops to have them do something. I assume this corruption is still going on? It sounds like an example of liberals running amok just like New York city here in the 1970`s.
You would think so. Go to your state employment agency. There you will see illegals pulling out 3 social security cards to see which will work. I swear it happened here in Tx.
ID theft should be a federal felony offense.
Some adult Mex shows up with all that stuff to work but can't speak a word of freaking English and the employer doesn't know he's an illegal?!? That is utter bull*&%$.
This is more claptrap to 'prove' that any enforcement effort is futile.
I think this article was posted earlier today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863084/posts
Exclusive: Document ‘Rental’ By Illegals Vexes Authorities [BOHICA]
woai.com ^ | 07/08/09 | Jim Forsyth
Posted on 07/09/2007 9:43:01 AM PDT by Froufrou
No matter what kind or how good of a mouse trap you make the mice/Hispanics in this case will always find a way to get around it. Even a Biometric chip could be counterfeited. It appears to be a loose loose situation no matter what we do.
It would if that was checked. I doubt if it was checked.
The stand was operated by five or six different guys, all Arabs. The operators of the stand all displayed the required health card from the DC health authority, but it was the same card for every different operator. The name on it was Ackbar Said.
One day I asked one of the regular operators what his name was. All I could understand of his reply was "Haji," buy I am sure that he wasn't Ackbar Said, and I bet none of the other operators were Ackbar Saids either. For the rest of the year, we called the hot dog stand "Haji's."
Of course that was in the bad old days of the Marion Barry Administration. I'm sure the government of the District of Columbia is not so corrupt/incompetent these days, as to allow half a dozen potential security risks to sell hot dogs next to the White House, while sharing the same health card.
</sarcasm>
I agree.
Maybe employers should start requiring to see everyone’s ID each month
Agreed. To include making, selling, or buying fake ID, taking bribes to issue false ID, and renting out or renting ID. Prison terms of years, not months.
And anyone making, selling, or renting false ID ought to be considered an accessory to any crimes committed using that ID. If someone buys a fake driver's license and uses it to drive to a bank robbery, the seller of the license should be guilty of the robbery.
It does but the IRS doesn't give a damned. They get more money that way. Just another reason to do away with the IRS.
The national borders of the United States have been forever erased. While that scenario may sound far-fetched, critics of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) warn that future could be here sooner than anyone realizes.
President Bush, Mexican President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin informally agreed to set up the SPP in 2005.
Not so well known is the fact that supporters of the NAU concept slipped an initiative into the recently defeated immigration reform act. Largely unnoticed amidst the amnesty furor that ultimately sunk the Immigration Bill was the statement, "It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico."
The bill called for measures to boost the economy of Mexico, including:
# U.S. support for Mexico, to strengthen its education and training programs. # A call for better health care for "poor and underserved" people in Mexico. # And U.S. assistance to "establish a program with the private sector to cover the health care needs of Mexican nationals temporarily employed in the United States." # The bill also called for U.S. assistance to Mexican businesses and government to eliminate corruption, which it termed, "the single biggest obstacle to development."
"This was the first attempt by the SPP to go public, and it failed," says Dr. Jerome Corsi, author of The Late Great USA. They thought nobody would notice. They were wrong."
Corsi called the sPP "a coup d-etat by bureaucratic means," adding that it works underhandedly like a shadow government.
"It is an attempt to turn North America into something like the European Economic Community," he says, "which began with economic cooperation and expanded eventually to include a common market, and then a full-scale regional government replacing, in many ways, the governing powers of the member nations."
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