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They are discussing a bill here that would require driver's license applicants with expired visas to be reported. That might help...LOL..why don't they just arrest them and hold 'em for the INS when they show up and while they are at it require a SS card to get a license. It's embarrassing.

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Here's another pic of the men in custody (Mohammed Fares (left), Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad and Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin arrive for Wednesday's federal court hearing in which bond was denied.)

Looking around GoMemphis, I found another article of interest from last week:

Driver license fraud case here is a rare incident, state says

Wanda Adams, assistant director of driver licensing for the Department of Safety, said she knew of only one other case of a license examiner's involvement in issuing fraudulent licenses, and it happened two years ago in Davidson County.

Roland Colson, executive assistant to Safety Commissioner Denny King, declined to talk about specific measures in place to guard against such fraud.

CYA is definitely in effect in Tennessee. The guy who arranged this has said that this was done 6 or 7 other times. That means that she didn't get caught dealing with him until the last time. And the possibility exists that she may have done the same for other people.

"This particular person was caught . . . The mechanism that we've got in place did work."

Barbara Streisand. She got away with this in the past, dealing with the same man. If the system worked, she would have been caught the first time. CYA.

Here's the real reason they got caught: The case began with a tip from a New York FBI agent who said a confidential informant told him of the trip to Memphis for the licenses.