Posted on 11/24/2002 5:37:42 AM PST by madfly
From the Nov. 19, 2002 Richmond Times-Dispatch came a startling article from Michael Martz entitled "Mexicans' bank use is eased." Martz wrote: "One of Virginia's largest banks has begun offering illegal Mexican immigrants a way to open accounts, establish a credit history and reduce the risk of being robbed. "Wachovia Corp., operating as Wachovia and First Union across the state, yesterday began recognizing the Mexican "Matricula Consular" ID for opening any kind of bank account except tax-deferred retirement funds. "Bank of America already accepts the Mexican ID, but the document hasn't been easily available to immigrants in Virginia because the Mexican Consulate in Washington hasn't been able to offer it until now. There are no Mexican consulates in Virginia ..."
Several quotes in the article praised Wachovia — a North Carolina holding company that has bought up several Richmond-based banks over the past few years — for promoting economic and cultural diversity; for meeting the claim that "It is a right of every human being to have an identification"; for soothing the pains that illegals have in cashing their paychecks and sending money back home. (By the way, isn't it a crime to knowingly hire illegal aliens?)
Martz also quoted the Center for Immigration Studies' Steven Camarota, who considers Wachovia and, I presume, BoA guilty of "poor corporate citizenship" in this decision. I agree. Whether it's corporate greed sugar-coated by a thin layer of altruism, or something less noble at work, it's a lousy decision for America.
Glenn Spencer's Americanpatrol.com website has an excellent dissection of this "Sham ID", with links to other sites clearly documenting the reasons it will accelerate the rush to legal and social chaos. For example, the Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement website notes that — "The matricula consular is an identification card issued by the Mexican government to its citizens illegally residing in the United States. We oppose acceptance of this card by U.S. institutions because it encourages illegal immigration. Furthermore, the United States has certain duties to its citizens like ensuring national security and defending against international and domestic fraud that require the responsibility for identification of persons in the United States to remain with U.S. authorities. These responsibilities must not be ceded to any foreign government."
The website for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) also details its objections to the matricula consular. And INS Deputy Director Scott Weber explained to the Denver Post in October why the matricula consular cannot be trusted by law enforcement authorities and commercial enterprises — though it is often touted as a tool by which officials will better know "whom they are dealing with."
Despite the appeals to both sovereignty and common sense, it's evident from this make-a-buck-at-any-cost decision, and from Colorado Congress on Thursday night's "O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News Channel), that the Bush Administration simply won't address this critical issue. I won't speculate here why Bush and his minions are behaving this way, but I expect more and more antipathy between Anglos and Latinos. Instead of the inclusiveness the president thinks he's gaining by accommodating Mexico and Latino special interests, he'll get racial strife and disharmony. Not because members of one group or the other are inherently "bad," but because the immigration law is being ignored wholesale, our welfare-state freebies are being stressed to the breaking point, and we citizens of the United States are getting damned mad about it.
Even two years ago, designs for the Reconquista of Aztlan seemed to me fantastical, the whimsies of disaffected whiners seeking a free ride to position and perks. They no longer do. They are foreboding, not just in and of themselves but because our elected leaders won't act in the national interest of the United States.
The Founders dreamed of a nation in which individuals could live in mutual toleration and forbearance within a society, freely associating as they alone choose and succeeding by their own enterprise and initiative — not at the collective expense of others. What we have fallen to is endless pressures to succumb to the demands of particular groups "demanding their due" at the expense of others, litigated to exasperation's end and lubricated with the grease of unfounded guilt. Look, for example, at the rising demands of Moslems to conform public school routine to Islamic dietary requirements, holidays and prayer times. Yet Jews and Christians are berated for simply posting the Ten Commandments in courtrooms and schoolrooms
Unless major, wrenching adjustments are made, I suspect we ARE going to go the way of Rome, possibly within my lifetime. The pattern of history seems to guarantee it. And the knowledge of that decline and fall cuts deep.
For anyone who thinks that illegal immigration is a problem for Californians, Arizonans, New Mexicans and Texans only — think again.
© 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted)
Why does the government give these people everything that the rest of us had to work for?
ILLEGAL ALIEN POEM
Author Unknown
I come for visit, get treated regal,
So I stay, who care I illegal?
I cross border, poor and broke,
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, "You come no more,
We send cash right to your door."
Welfare checks, they make you wealthy,
Medicaid it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money,
Thanks to you, American dummy.
Write to friends in motherland,
Tell them come as fast as you can.
They come in rags and Chebby trucks,
I buy big house with welfare bucks.
They come here, we live together,
More welfare checks, it gets better!
Fourteen families they moving in,
But neighbor's patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away,
Now I buy his house, and then I say,
"Find more alien! s for house to rent."
And in the yard I put a tent.
Send for family (they just trash),
But they, too, draw the welfare cash!
Everything is mucho good,
And soon we own the neighborhood.
We have hobby--it's called breeding,
Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!
American crazy! He pay all year,
To keep welfare running here.
We think America darn good place!
Too darn good for the white man race.
If they no like us, they can go,
Got lots of room in Mexico.
Pretty much sums up my thoughts, except I was thinking more along the lines of insane.
I agree but it will never happen. A couple of years ago I was going to move my account to Wells Fargo but I didn't when I found out they honored the MC.
That is one way to beat them.
That is one way to beat them.
Not quickly enough. And if all the banks accept the matricular consular IDs, where will you move your money?
Threaten the Illegal-friendly bankers with banishment from the FDIC. They would risk ruin; depositers would flee. It would be a death sentence.
Do this, and no bank in the land will knowingly touch the deposits of Illegal Aliens.
Getting it done won't be easy, but it's the perfect solution.
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SIGNING UP
Mexican ID registration at Round Lake bank draws long lines
by Frank Abderholden
11/21/02
The News-Sun (Waukegan IL)
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/top/w21cards.htm
If people keep lining up the way they have been since the Mexican Matricula identification cards were made available in the Round Lake area, the total could easily reach 1,000.
"I've been making many trips to help. It seems like people are coming very early in the morning," said Maru Tomusiak, the director of the Mano-A-Mano Family Resource Center.
"These are important because they provide a means of identification," she said of the cards, which have caused some controversy.
The Mexican consulate set up shop this week in a mobile unit at the First State Bank of Round Lake, at Rollins and Cedar Lake roads in Round Lake Beach. People begin lining up at 6 a.m., but consulate staff don't start issuing the card until 9 a.m., said Tomusiak.
The cards will be available at the bank through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The cards caused quite a stir in Waukegan in August. The cards are allowed under international law that says nations can register their citizens. Mayor Richard Hyde said police would recognize them as real identification.
At that time Carlos Sada-Solana, the Chicago based Consul General of Mexico, said the cards have nothing to do with immigration and give police a solid piece of identification.
Tomusiak said people who are not citizens do not have a social security number so therefore they can't get a driver's license. Even with a Matricula card, they will get ticketed.
"It doesn't make them legal to live here. It just gives them a little something to identify themselves," she said.
The cards are now accepted by many banks so people can open savings and checking accounts.
To get a card, a person has to have some identification, such as a passport or birth certificate to prove Mexican citizenship. They also must have something such as a utility bill to prove they have been living in this country for at least six months.
The new Matricula cards are nothing like the old ones, said Tomusiak.
"These are very high security," she said, noting the old ones were easy to fake.
So far the villages of Round Lake and Round Lake Park have accepted the new identification as legitimate, Tomusiak said. She said they are talking with both Round Lake Heights and Round Lake Beach.
"I think these are going to be a great asset to the community," she said.
But, they consider these Mexican ID's to be good enough to cash the checks of illegals without a second form of ID.
According to their logic, my state issued ID isn't as valid as an ID issued by a corrupt foreign government.
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