¡Adios! Personal banker quits over Mexican IDs

WND ^ | February 15, 2009 | Chelsea Schilling

[Joiseydude]

A personal banker in Arlington, Va., is quitting his job after Chevy Chase Bank, one of the largest and best-known banks in the Washington, D.C., region announced it will begin accepting consular cards from customers who many suspect are illegal aliens.

The bank announced its "Hispanic Banking Initiative" during a pilot program and is now accepting Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridads, or MCAS, at all of its branches so customers without U.S. government IDs may open accounts.

[rovenstinez]

Thanks neighbor, the nicer ones already feel your attitude, they wouldn’t be picking your cheap lettuce if someone in your country wasn’t trying to cheat their own law. Many I know have gone to spend their tourist dollars in countries that show some sign of cultural tolerance.

[buccaneer81]

the nicer ones already feel your attitude,

Are those defined as having only five DUIs or less?

[Roccus]

Just to be clear, it was the acceptance of Matricula Consulars and ITINs by banking institutions - a practice that FBI Director Robert Mueller decried in Congressional testimony - that facilitated the boom in bad mortgage loans to illegals; which in turn is a root cause of the current financial crisis.

Exactly right....and notice how no one talks about all those store-front mortgage brokers that popped up. They were nothing but washing machines for narco $$$.

[muawiyah]

The way you get a TIN is you enter with a lawful visa ~ typically a student visa where it's going to be reasonable for you to have a bank account.

Then you overstay.

Happens every day.

The people I was pointing to usually do manual labor, live 20 to a house, and don't know about TINs, and probably aren't literate.

[muawiyah]

Let's see, a country that shows cultural tolerance?

Other than the USA of course ~ think about that one for a while ~ sure not gonna' be a Spanish speaking country!

Ever listen to what those pukes are saying behind your back when they think you don't know Spanish?

[rovenstinez]

Thanks Buccaneer81. Yep, lump all MEXICANS into the categories of DUI’s, keep that narrow view, it’ll get you far in life.

[ladyjane]

It’s odd that you would support illegals on this website.

[rovenstinez]

You know, people holler, insult and said insidious things on this website. Point that was made was that Mexican Nationals who stood in line for 8 hours to pay $100USD for an interview, 75% of them refused, were denied access to open a bank account in the USA when they finally got to Oklahoma...when they proved their identity with a passport, gave their MEXICAN address,...were told they couldn’t put their $100 in a savings account in Oklahoma. Excuse, did I say that I support Mexicans who came to the USA illegally? Geezzz...

[buccaneer81]

Come to Columbus and you’ll see the carnage they disproportionately cause.

[theymakemesick]

If I owned a bank, I’d have already sent him an offer letter.

[CowboyJay]

Many I know have gone to spend their tourist dollars in countries that show some sign of cultural tolerance

My summer job in high school was working in agriculture alongside illegal aliens. Within my first month on the job, I was offered a cocaine distributorship and solicited for the purchase of weapons to be smuggled back across the border. Is that the 'culture' we're supposed to be tolerating?

Illegal aliens don't quit breaking laws when they cross the border.

[rovenstinez]

Yeah, kind of like the pedophiles from America that show up in Mexico. Been offered money to help them change their names, and avoid being sent back to justice in the USA. I suppose in every country there are infidels and prodigals that run around giving the folks back home all a bad name.

[CowboyJay]

I trust you didn’t accomodate them. Do you expect us to turn a blind eye?

[DoughtyOne]

Hijinx, that may be true with certain individual institutions. Never the less, it was the Democrats and in particular Janet Reno who took a corporation to court, forcing them to extend bad loans to people who could not repay them.

What was the normal thing for lending institutions to do with mortgages that were sound? They bundled those and sold them to other companies, to be used for collateral for loans. The government forced the lending institutions to recognize these bad loans as reasoned loans, so the lending institutions bundled them just as they had always done.

Now the government seeks to claim the lending institutions played fast and loose with these mortgages. And then the government has the audacity to act as if the mortgage industry was extending bad loans on their own.

The charge of mismanagement is particularly sick. They feds know exactly who forced these bad loans. And they honestly don’t give a fig if it was to illegals or not.

The bailouts are not going to be limited to citizens IMO. When that fact hits the fan, there are going to be a lot of us angry about it.

[HiJinx]

Aye, you’re absolutely right.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks HiJinx. Take care...

[Thunder90]

They have to accept these cards by federal law...

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Excuse, did I say that I support Mexicans who came to the USA illegally?

Yes. You said the guy was wrong because he objected to the policy of allowing people without US government IDs to open accounts. That means people who are either illegal aliens or crooks. Did you read the article, or just post based on what you assumed it said?

The bank announced its "Hispanic Banking Initiative" during a pilot program and is now accepting Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridads, or MCAS, at all of its branches so customers without U.S. government IDs may open accounts.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

They have to accept these cards by federal law...

What federal law?

[brytlea]

Do you live in Mexico?