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This is one that you will want to read, it is hard to understand why it is happening to us. The comments are valuable too.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1504310/posts


Illegal crossers (from Mexico) now buying 'secure'
cards
www.dailystar.com ^ | Published: 10.16.2005

Posted on 10/17/2005 7:31:10 PM PDT by dennisw

NOGALES, Ariz. - The Mexican man was nervous when he walked up
clutching another man's visa. It was an amateur job; his face didn't
match the visa's photo.

Within two hours, the impostor, Walter Preciado Cordova, 25, would
be deported back to Mexico, his intentions vague after he was caught
trying to get into the United States with another man's laser visa.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors at the ports of entry
see such impostors every day: migrants trying to sneak into this
country using the very tools meant to protect against illegal entry
through the ports - the vaunted U.S. laser visas that are supposed to
offer the highest level of security available in the digital age.

To fight that trend, the U.S. State Department is starting a new
tracking system Monday to dissuade people from selling off their laser
visas - or to at least encourage them to hold on to them more
carefully.

The visas are counterfeit-proof ........

Continued at link............


3,180 posted on 10/17/2005 8:30:37 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You say that you have prayed about your problem! Now, shut up and listen to God's answer.)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Thanks granny for the link.
As for the contents of the article -- just plain disgusting.


3,185 posted on 10/17/2005 8:54:06 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Please check your private mail.


3,187 posted on 10/17/2005 9:05:57 PM PDT by GorillaMa
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