This should be a no-brainer; and if they apply the law the same as they would to a citizen it is a no-brainer.
If documents they use are ficticious then charge them with using false documents. If the documents they use belong to someone else- including a deceased person or a child it should be identity theft, forgery, and using false documents.
If I buy credit cards with someone’s name on them, I will be charged with identity theft and a host of other things if I use them or attempt to use them. Do you really think I could skate just by claiming I didn’t know those credit cards, or checks or whatever belonged to actual people- I thought they were just made up??
Give me a break- any and all of our laws need to be applied to illegals just as they are to citizens. Including no driver’s license, no insurance, DWI, and false documents or identity theft.
This type of thing totally ticks me off- illegals are usually given a pass on most of our laws. That needs to end.
TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 25, § 495 Contracts, deeds, and powers of attorney
“Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing, for the purpose of obtaining or receiving, or of enabling any other person, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or receive from the United States or any officers or agents thereof, any sum of money; or
Whoever utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited; or
Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or officer of the United States, any such writing in support of, or in relation to, any account or claim, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 43, § 911 Citizen of the United States
“Whoever falsely and willfully represents himself to be a citizen of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”