Posted on 02/14/2007 2:29:47 PM PST by gallaxyglue
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation's fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.
The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said.
Bank of America tested the program last year at five branches in Los Angeles, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Journal said.
The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year, the paper said.
A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment.
What country are the Illegans from?
They are setting themselves up for a discrimination suit by requiring this information from some customers and not others.
THIS HAS BEEN POSTED SIX TIMES ALREADY!!!
Maybe they're here illegally and don't use animal products.
Didn't I read something yesterday about a 'stealth' amnesty granted within the recently passed Minimum Wage legislation? 'Illegal' is merely a technical term, as we progress toward a North American Union, whether we want a North American Union or not, this train has already left the station.
Cool. No way to collect on charges. I hope they go out of business.
I have an account at B of A. This makes things easy for me. I will not renew it at the end of the month. Money will go elsewhere.
Duplicate post. Please search titles before posting.
"Credit card" will do it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=credit%20card
POST IT AGAIN!!
Actually this is the ninth time this has been posted.
"A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment."
And never WILL be available for comment.
This news is a trial balloon by B of A to gauge the fallout of their regular customers.
I am sure we are not alone, Please let Bank of America know that you are not going to foot the bill for billions of dollars in bad credit card debt because they want to give credit cards to ILLEGAL aliens.
Boycott the Bank of America!
I only came to this thread to how long it would take for that to be pointed out.
Someone already mentioned this was a duplicate post. Please search.
I just got rid of them.....had to end up reporting them to banking commission and ceo....I would never do business with them again.....
Illegans also avoid products that have been tested on animals.
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