75% of Americans oppose bank accounts for illegals

TIME-OUT PROJECT ^ | May 15, 2003 | Project USA

[CIBvet]

A new Roper poll shows that 3 out of 4 Americans oppose allowing financial corporations to open bank accounts in the United States for foreign nationals illegally in the country. Nevertheless, Bush Administration officials, like U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin, are coordinating efforts between the Mexican government and the U.S. banking industry to step up the practice.

Ms. Marin, who "entered" the United States from Mexico when she was a teenager, recently returned from a trip to Mexico City where she met with Mexican officials to negotiate policies favorable to Mexicans. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Marin was attempting to "drum up support for a Partnership for Prosperity program meant to tear down logistical and financial barriers that make it difficult for Mexicans working in the United States to send money home."

Critics say this is just another example of the Bush Administration's support for illegal immigration, but note that the Treasury Department, under Ms. Marin, has been particularly aggressive in encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the United States.

Recently, for example, the Treasury granted $1.3 million to an ethnically focused financial institution in North Carolina to help it open more branches. According to the Wall Street Journal, the business openly caters to illegal aliens and provides them banking services.

Treasury officials have begun trying to sell the effort to help illegal aliens send money out of the country as "pro-security," arguing that the law enforcement community can better track illegal alien money if it's in a bank.

However, the effort is not backed by Homeland Security; it is backed by banks, which have a clear profit motive, and by the Mexican government, which seeks an incremental amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States.

The Bush Administration should rebuff the big corporations and Mexico. The American government has a duty to enforce American laws, rather than encourage foreign nationals to break them.

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Americans Favor Tough Approach to Illegal Immigration (Roper Poll)
http://projectusa.org/Ezine/03-01-03-06.html#030515

North Carolina credit union banks on immigrants (Wall Street Journal)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/05/09/financial1021EDT0047.DTL

U.S. treasurer says free flow of remittances can stimulate economies in Mexico's poor areas
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/05/09/international1801EDT6288.DTL

+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+

The first border death of the approaching summer season has now been reported, and, if this year is like previous ones, we can expect hundreds more of these tragedies before autumn.

Those who provide the magnets in the United States that lure illegal aliens across our dangerous borders carry some responsibility for the deaths. The Bush Administration, for example, rather than implement a firm and humane interior enforcement policy, which would largely end the border deaths, continues to put ethnic politics and corporate profiteering above the law and the will of the American people.

While the White House might get some political mileage out of allowing Rosario Marin, who, the White House often notes, is the "highest serving Latina" in the administration, to serve as U.S. Treasurer, selfish political advantages cannot take precedent over the public good. With three-quarters of all Americans opposing bank accounts for illegal aliens, the White House must reign in the Treasury Department no matter how ethnically dedicated Ms. Marin is to "her people," and no matter how much money banking corporations are making off illegal alien bank accounts.

Please call the White House comment line and say, "I am very disappointed by the Bush Administration's continued support for illegal immigration. Please tell George Bush I want the Treasury Department to stop pushing for bank accounts for illegal aliens."

White House comment line (9-5 EST, M-F) 202-456-1111
(This is important. If you can, please call several times this week.)

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

"Form follows profit" is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers

+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+

I wanted to let you know that I have taken your suggestion to call the White House comment line twice this week. Both operators told me that they are familiar with the issue (and agreed with our stance!) and seemed encouraged about my call.

Thank you,

Matt ____________________________ Permanent archive link:

[CIBvet]

I am so sick of seeing the increasing numbers of Illegals swaggering around my town, stealing jobs and depressing wages to needy legal American families. They hustle the Welfare programs and Catholic Social Services for all they're worth, and once they get themselves a job and housing, they immediately import their entire families down to Grandma and Grandpa, who once here, quickly figure out how to qualify for whatever medical procedure they may need, all subsidized by legal U.S. Taxpayers aka 'the Stupid White Gringos'.

[MeekMom]

I just lost my appetite for supper.
Where is our puny border patrol? And why don't we put some people to work on the "puny" border patrol?

[Mulder]

Illegals get bank accounts, free college, free health care, and have their turd-world ID cards recognized by many gov't agencies.

Americans get biometrics, face scanning, and national ID cards.

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

[CIBvet]

Ping the damn Illegals and their EMPLOYERS in your town.

[CIBvet]

PING !!! Find out where the Illegals are working in your town and start harrassing their EMPLOYERS on the phone, picketing outside their businesses, and calling your elected public servants and screaming in their sorry bureaucrat faces.

[goldstategop]

Yup. That includes conservatives, moderates, and liberals. What the hell are they thinking over there in Washington?? We don't want any special benefits, entitlements, or privileges for illegal aliens, period.

[VOA]

75% of Americans oppose bank accounts for illegals

Hey, if we can tax those bank account at usurious rates, I'd be all for it.

Of course, we all know that's a fantasy.

[CIBvet]

PING to Action

Don't let Presidente Jorge and his Banker-buddy contributers get away with this continued destruction and RIP-OFF of our AMERICAN Culture and economy.

[CIBvet]

Please ACT on this notice by calling the President and your U.S. Legislators and tell 'em what you think about this scam to make $$$ off of the INVASION OF AMERICA by millions of ILLEGALS.

[SamiGirl]

They are everywhere! In all the restaurants, diners, every gardening place, lawn business, construction site, hospitals, even at the local animal shelter.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I am so sick of seeing the increasing numbers of Illegals swaggering around my town, stealing jobs and depressing wages to needy legal American families.

Your in Alaska? I thought only California and Texas had illegal aliens problems?

[CIBvet]

PING to ACTION ... Please, and THANKS.

[Joe Hadenuf]

They are everywhere! In all the restaurants, diners, every gardening place, lawn business, construction site, hospitals, even at the local animal shelter.

Are you in Alaska too?

[CIBvet]

It has to do with the big $$ payoffs $$ enjoyed by our elected officials and bureaucRATS ... and their Wall St./Corp butt-buddies.

(sorry about the supper ... call your D.C. elitist and leave 'em a piece of your mind tonight, I promise you'll feel better)

[SamiGirl]

No, I'm in NY. You're kidding about Alaska, right?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Don't think so. I believe CIBvet is there.....

[waterstraat]

I thought you needed a social security card to get a bank account? All money held by illegals should be forfited(just before the illegals are extradited), and put into a fund for jobless americans. Any money held in American by illegal aliens, is money illegally obtained, and does not belong to the illegals.

[CIBvet]

PU-U-U-LEASE call up your D.C. 'Royalty' tonight and demand they start putting our own welfare-addicts to work BEFORE they roll the red-carpet out any further for the CRIMINAL ILLEGALS.

Let them know you know it's all about $$ GRAFT $$

[CIBvet]

You couldn't tax the ILLEGAL'S bank accounts enough to even come close to equaling the actual cost to U.S.Taxpayers, much less the impact upon our American Culture.

We need to start ACTING against this criminality in our local communities.

[StriperSniper]

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

A lack of treason prosecutions?