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TAKE ACTION: Call, Write, and Email your Representatives and Talk Shows in opposition to the Mexican Social Security Raid and the use of Mexican "ID" Cards.Rep. Ron Paul has introduced H.R. 489, the "Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2003", which will block the Mexican raid on Social Security.Please ask your Congressman and Senators to join as a "co-sponsor" of the bill and to vote for H.R. 489.Please contact the White House (202-456-1111), email and ask that the President not sign the agreement with Mexico. Donate Now to help us stop this raid. Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues...

</WASHINGTON - In a few weeks, the U.S. Treasury Department is expected to decide whether it needs to rethink a rule allowing banks to accept foreign-issued identification cards - specifically the one issued by Mexico. To Latino and immigrant advocacy groups, the decision could indicate the White House position on the Mexican ID card (matricula consular) and could boost or undermine Republican Party Hispanic outreach efforts.\>

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will not recognize Mexican-issued identification cards, despite Victorville City Council's unanimous endorsement of the cards earlier this week, officials said Thursday. "Our Sheriff (Gary Penrod) has some concern accepting the card as a standalone document," said Sheriff's Lt. Rick Carr. On Tuesday, the council unanimously endorsed the cards, following a ceremony in which the council members praised the program. Councilman Rudy Cabriales instructed the staff to "make sure we have training for the Sheriff's Department." The council also instructed staff to come up with a formal resolution to support the program. While the city...

The Fresno County Sheriff's Department will formally recognize a Mexican national identification card, becoming the largest agency to do so in the central San Joaquin Valley. Sheriff's deputies will accept the matricula consular cards as a way to identify who a person is and where he or she lives, Sheriff Richard Pierce announced Monday. "For us in law enforcement, it is obvious that we need to identify people who we come into contact with," Pierce said. "Often, they're victims."

It looks very much like a drivers license, but it doesn't give you license to drive. It allows Mexicans to go in and out of their country, but it's not a passport. It seems like a good idea for the purpose of identifying Mexicans living abroad, but it has created a national drive to make its use illegal. The Mexican government calls it "matricula consular," but critics in the United States call it "the illegal-alien ID card."Of course, it is not an illegal-alien ID card, but that description plays very well with those fighting to block the use of the...

Last year's failed attempt to get Congress to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens has morphed into stealth amnesty. This devious plan is hidden behind a little card that looks like a California driver's license and goes by a strange foreign name: matricula consular. Mexican President Vicente Fox has instructed his 47 consulates in the United States to issue these identification cards to Mexicans living illegally in this country, and they are lining up by the thousands to pay $29 to get one. More than a million were issued in 2002, and over a million older matriculas issued prior...

Undocumented Mexican immigrants seeking city services or stopped by police can now present an ID card issued by the Mexican government that will be accepted by city agencies just like a Colorado driver's license, Mayor Wellington Webb announced Thursday. Denver police will start accepting the card immediately, and if a supporting resolution is approved by the City Council, undocumented immigrants can use it to get everything from a business license or a bank account to a building permit.The mayor's decision makes Denver among the largest of more than 40 U.S. cities that now recognize the ID - known as a...