Saturday, October 25, 2014

Illegal Mexicans voting in American elections to expand the LA RAZA welfare state and Mexican fascism in America


MILLIONS HAVE POCKETS FULL OF FRAUDULENT ID.S. MILLIONS OF THEM DRIVE ILLEGALLY WITHOUT LICENSE OR INSURANCE. MILLIONS OF THEY CONTRACT ILLEGALLY AND LIVE IN THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, WHICH IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE IS CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR. MILLIONS OF THEM ARE IN AMERICAN JOBS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS….. and you’re still such a fool to think they’re not VOTING FOR MORE???

CALIFORNIA’S STATE LEGISLATURE IS ALREADY LA RAZA-CONTROLLED AND PASSING LAW AFTER LAW WRITTEN BY MEXICO!

 

and what are the illegals voting for???

Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'

what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!


 

 

Report: Non-Citizens' Votes Could Affect Senate Race

 

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Many non-citizens don't register or vote, but so many do that it could change the outcome of some of the neck-and-neck Senate races as Republicans and Democrats fight to gain control over it, warns a new article in the journal Electoral Studies.

While some experts believe that there are not many non-citizens who would risk jail, fines, and even deportation for voting, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law said in a recent report, the Electoral Studies article used data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study to provide samples of those who would vote.


"Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted," the Journal reports.
The data determined that more than 14 percent of non-citizens in both samples showed they were registered to vote, and did cast ballots, with 6.4 percent voting in 2008 and 2.2 percent in 2010.


And with non-citizens favoring Democrats, President Barack Obama took more than 80 percent of the non-citizen vote in the CCES 2008 sample, Journal researchers Jesse Richman, the Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University and director of the ODU Social Science Research Center, and David Earnest, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters, explain in The Washington Post.

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., won his 2008 election by just 312 votes, and that the votes cast by 0.65 percent of his state's non-citizens may account for that win, they said. In addition, the found that three-quarters of the non-citizens who were asked to provide photo ID before voting still ended up casting a ballot.


The research also found that the less educated a non-citizen was, the more likely he or she was to cast a vote, hinting "at a link between non-citizen voting and lack of awareness about legal barriers."

However, the researchers said they can't answer if the United States should legalize non-citizens' votes or find policies to restrict it, "but this research should move that debate a step closer to a common set of facts."



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TRULY, DOES ANYONE NOT KNOW THAT MEXICO REELECTED THE GREAT HISPANDERER?


I recall reading a front page article on a Santa Rosa, CA paper where an illegal was interviewed about Obama. She stated she would not vote for him again if he didn’t deliver amnesty.

 

ILLEGALS BREAK ALL OUR LAWS, DRIVE ILLEGALLY, CONTRACT ILLEGALLY, AND USE STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS… you thought they were not voting for more?

 

“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!”

 

…. Obama funds LA RAZA PARTY with our tax dollars. GOOGLE IT!

 

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Dick Morris: Investigate 2012 vote fraud

By Dick Morris - 04/08/14 07:08 PM EDT

Allegations of voter fraud fly back and forth in modern American politics, based on episodic personal observations or on anomalous electoral outcomes. But now, for the very first time, comes concrete proof that massive voter fraud might have taken place in the 2012 election, sufficiently widespread to have tainted more than 1 million votes nationwide.

So far, the data does not indicate which side committed the fraud or whether it was an orchestrated effort, but the fact of fraud is now undeniable.

North Carolina, under the leadership of their Election Board Director Kim Strach, studied the rolls of those who voted there and compared them with data from 27 other states. The conclusion: 35,750 people who voted in North Carolina may have also voted in at least one other state in the 2012 election.

The duplicate vote finding is based on the people who voted in North Carolina having the same first and last names and the same birth dates as those voting in other states. In 765 cases, the last four digits of the voters’ Social Security numbers were identical as well.

The report is based on a study of 101 million voter records in 28 participating states. And because none of the four biggest states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — participated in the study, among others, a truly national study would likely have yielded a far larger number.

Because North Carolina makes for about 2.5 percent of America’s population, the projected number of actual double votes nationally could reach to 1 million.

Past allegations of fraud have all been based on voter registration data, indicating a vast potential for fraud, but without proof of actual double voting, there’s no hard evidence. But the North Carolina study focused only on those who actually cast ballots — far more important criteria.

Critics of the study point out that no voter fraud has been verified and no prosecutions have been brought. But these names will surely provide an investigatory bonanza for those willing to follow the trail.

The impetus for collecting national voting data and interfacing them for fraud comes from Kris Kobach, secretary of State in Kansas. Kobach initiated the interface, called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, in 2005.

Progressive Pulse blogger Chris Kromm charges that the results of studies by other states have produced much noise but few real results. But unless an aggressive investigation pursues these double votes, we will never know how serious the problem really is. 

Isaiah Thompson of AxisPhilly noted the record keeping spots many people who have moved and registered in a new state but whose old voter records have not been purged.

Thompson’s criticism would hold water were North Carolina comparing voter registrations, but because it compared actual votes, it does not.

What is clearly needed is an interstate effort by local prosecutors to coordinate investigations of double voters. Let district attorneys in two states confront the double voters themselves and ask how it is that they voted twice, who helped to facilitate their fraud, did anyone help pay for their travel, did they get compensation for voting twice and so forth.

What mission could be more central to our political integrity? If, in fact, up to a million Americans voted twice in the last election, we need to know who did, why they did, and whether it was a coordinated effort by one of the political parties.

Morris, who served as adviser to former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former President Clinton, is the author of 16 books, including his latest, Screwed and Here Come the Black Helicopters. To get all of his and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to dickmorris.com.

This post has been corrected from an earlier version.



AMNESTY….LA RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.

"They hauled them down to the border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."


 

ILLEGALS VOTING?!?!?!?

Monday, November 5, 2012 8:11 AM


 

Please post online with links in and circulate to personal contacts, local, nd national media and state officials in your area!
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ALIPAC To File Official Protests Of Illegal Immigrant Voters Detected In Nevada

For Immediate National Release

November 4, 2012

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
(866) 703-0864 /
WilliamG@alipac.us

Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee plans to immediately file
official written complaints with the Clark County, Nevada, Board of Elections, the state board of elections, and the Federal Elections Commission regarding the documentation provided today by the Las Vegas Review-Journal that numerous illegal immigrants and non-citizens are registering and voting in federal elections that will decide which Presidential candidate or political party controls the White House and US Senate.

The written complaints will demand full investigations and that all illegal voters be removed from the vote results, and that a special investigation be launched into the 2010 Election between US Senator Harry Reid and Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle where large numbers of immigrant workers were ordered by casino and hotel bosses to vote for Harry Reid.

"If the elections in Las Vegas are rigged then the public has no reason to trust the fairness of anything in Nevada including their games," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. "We are going to call on the local boards of election, the state, and the feds to get those illegal voters out of the vote count for 2012 or we will launch a national intensive and sustained boycott of Las Vegas and their illegal alien work forces working for the Democrat-controlled unions in the hotels and casinos."

ALIPAC first warned America of illegal immigrant voters in numerous media appearances in 2010.

William Gheen was the first guest on Election Day 2010 on Fox News where he warned that the Democratic strategy was to stall the Tea Party advance by fielding large numbers of illegal alien voters. This national warning has since been further substantiated by reports from media and state governments detecting illegal voters and this latest research conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal interviewed "immigrant" workers who say they were threatened with deportation if they did not allow the Culinary Local 226 union to register them to vote. The article written by Glenn Cook documents their claims and indicates the problem involves many more immigrants. In 2010, e-mails were leaked from casinos showing upper management threatening middle managers if their immigrant workers did not turn out to vote for Harry Reid.

These explosive findings are of national import and indicate that illegal alien voters are likely to be voting in large numbers and displacing and replacing American voters. In response to this problem,
US Senator David Vitter has just filed a bill making voting by illegal immigrants a deportable offense.

"American voters and taxpayers are harmed by every illegal alien that votes," said William Gheen. "I truly believe that Harry Reid was re-elected by illegal immigrants, and if my suspicions are correct it means that his government... that our government is currently illegitimate, illegal, and in place by the influence of foreign powers. In which case, we need to restore the American government into the hands of US voters and citizens immediately!"

In 2010,
US Senate candidate Sharron Angle filed a complaint with the Justice Department in response to leaked emails from Harrah's casino executives that appear to show how Harrah's executives launched an effort to wrangle their employees, many of which are non citizens, and drive them to the polls to vote early for Reid.

ALIPAC will be calling on the state of Nevada to access the same Department of Homeland Security databases that states like Colorado and Florida are using to remove the non-citizens from the voter rolls that have been detected there. In Nevada, these removals will need to be applied before the vote tallies are counted.

For more information about ALIPAC's efforts to stop illegal immigrants from stealing American votes and US Elections or to schedule interviews please visit
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THE OBAMA - HOLDER REGIME EXPAND LA RAZA SUPREMACY IN TEXAS - ILLEGALS NO ID to VOTE! Government to sue Texas over voter ID law

Government to sue Texas over voter ID law

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-obama-holder-regime-expand-la-raza.html


 

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Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election.

 

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Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.

“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.

Of those
non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.

Subjects: 
Voter fraud, Colorado, non-citizens, voters, driver's license, study, registration, committee, US House, Republicans.


March 31, 2011
Debbie Siegelbaum
The Hill


Colorado conducted the study by
comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.

“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.

He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.

If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.

Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.

Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.

Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.

“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.


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GOP says 5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a 'wake-up call' for states

By Debbie Siegelbaum - 03/31/11 01:23 PM ET
The Hill

Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election.

Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.

“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.

Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.

Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.

“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.

He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.

If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.

Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.

Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.

Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.

“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states?page=2#comments

 

Friends of ALIPAC,

Many of you will remember that ALIPAC went on national television as the first guest of Election Day 2010 on Fox News to warn the nation that illegal aliens would be voting in large numbers.

Since that time, we have contended that illegal alien voters helped stall the American public's political revolution, especially west of the Mississippi river in places like Nevada and Colorado.

Now, even more solid evidence is emerging to back our claims.

The article we have for you to distribute is ground breaking and shocking.

A new study in Colorado says that a comparison between voter registration data and driver license data indicates the following concerns.

First they find that 12,000 non US Citizens or many more have committed the felony of registering to vote in Colorado!

Second, they found that at least 5,000 non citizens and illegal aliens, perhaps many more, committed the felony of voting in the 2010 elections!

Each non citizen and illegal alien who votes in an election has stolen the voice of an American citizen!

This outrage must be addressed immediately as the entire credibility of US Elections have now been cast into doubt.

Please read, and distribute the article below. Every member of Congress and each member of your state's local governments must receive copies.

If you do not respond to our request to forward this article to ALL AMERICAN LAWMAKERS, then please take out a piece of paper and write your name on it and a small note explaining that you surrender your nation to illegal alien invaders today.

For those of you willing to take an hour to help save your nation, grab this article and run with it! We will be counting on our homepage how many of you respond and how many people read this article!

Article to post, forward, report, circulate, etc...

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5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a 'wake-up call' for states
http://www.alipac.us/article-6198-thread-1-0.html


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Illegal Aliens Turn To Identity Theft ..................... (Wait Till Victims Try To Retire......!!!)



Jan. 8, 2008
WICHITA, Kan.

 

When U.S. Air Force veteran Marcos Miranda had his identity stolen, he went from being a valued customer and employee to a government statistic — one of thousands of identity theft victims caught up each year in the crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Identity theft has been a growing worry in the United States, but a rise in federal prosecutions of immigrants offers a new wrinkle on the problem. As better systems are developed for verifying employment, illegal immigrants are assuming the names and government-issued ID numbers of Americans like Miranda to thwart detection at workplaces, get driver's licenses and obtain credit.

Miranda first learned someone else was using his identity in 2000 when he was arrested on a warrant for unpaid traffic tickets at the border after a visit to relatives in Mexico. The 24-year-old Texas man was released after paying a $340 fine for violations he never incurred. Although his money was eventually returned, his nightmare was just beginning.

The most common start to identity theft is for the perpetrator get hold of someone's Social Security number, which is part of the system used to record people's earnings for federal retirement benefits. Once a person takes a job in the U.S., the first thing his employer will likely ask for is his or her Social Security number.

In Miranda's case, that's why he has gotten repeated letters from the federal tax officials demanding thousands of dollars in back taxes for wages paid to someone using his name and Social Security number to work at a pork slaughterhouse in Holton, Kansas. Miranda watched his once-high credit rating plummet as creditors reported unpaid bills incurred by others.

"Even though I am Hispanic, I am against illegal immigration," Miranda said. "Even though a lot of them come to work, there are always bad apples. (Identity theft) has really made my perspective ... negative about immigration."

A Mexican national accused of stealing Miranda's identity pleaded guilty last month to one count of using fraudulent documents in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Joel Rojas-Morales, 27, will be sentenced in March.

"That way he knows crime doesn't pay in America. Maybe in Mexico it does. But here, it may take some time, but the long arm of the law catches up to you," Miranda said.

Chris Joseph, the defense attorney representing Rojas-Morales, is sympathetic to identity theft victims like Miranda.

"I have no reason to doubt that is absolutely true. There is no question he is a victim of identity theft," Joseph said.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

 

An illegal immigration link to identity theft

A massive sweep at Swift meat-processing plants this week could lead officials to 'document rings.'

By Faye Bowers | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

PHOENIX

The latest roundup of illegal immigrants caught working in the US with fraudulent identifications - the largest single such work-site action ever - raises new questions about a link between illegal immigration and the growing problem of identity theft.

Federal raids Tuesday at six meat-processing plants owned by Swift & Co. in six states resulted in the arrests of 1,282 people for immigration violation - with 65 also charged with identify theft or other criminal charges.

The investigation is continuing, say officials with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the hope that some of the newly arrested workers will lead law officers to "document rings" that provided the stolen identities. The 10-month operation began in February, when ICE learned that "large numbers" of undocumented immigrants might be using Social Security numbers assigned to US citizens.

"We believe that the genuine identities of possibly hundreds of US citizens are being stolen or hijacked by criminal organizations and sold to illegal aliens in order to gain unlawful employment in this country," said Julie Myers, ICE assistant secretary. She called it "a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration."

The fraudulent document business has long been a thorn in the side of immigration officials, making it hard for them to crack down on companies for knowingly hiring illegal workers. Indeed, even as ICE agents conducted Tuesday's raids at the Swift plants, a joint task force in Arizona - made up of state, federal, and local law- enforcement officials - was arresting 12 suspects and seized numerous fake drivers' licenses, resident alien cards, Social Security cards, and vehicle titles.

Metropolitan Phoenix, a major immigrant-smuggling hub, has become a place where the false ID business is thriving, law-enforcement officers say. They estimate that 1,000 to 1,500 "coyotes," or smugglers, stash thousands of undocumented immigrants in drop houses throughout the valley, where they wait until false identification and transportation can be arranged to places as far away as Seattle and Miami.

"I would say that 90 percent of the transactions dealing with the sale of human cargo, those smuggled across the [Arizona] border, occur right here," Angel Rascon-Rubio, an ICE special agent, testified at a federal court hearing last year.

The Phoenix area is ideal for smugglers, officials say, because it is fairly easy to reach from Mexico but far enough from the border to avoid border patrol enforcement. It has broad access to the rest of the country via air and car. Moreover, the large Hispanic neighborhoods provide cover for drop houses and new immigrants.

On one of Phoenix's quiet residential streets lined with stucco tract homes live two men who came to the US illegally but gained legal status - along with some 3 million others - under the federal 1986 amnesty program. David and Raul, who will give only first names, are in the business of helping newly arrived illegal immigrants acquire fake documents.

They are not part of an organized crime family, they say - just part of a network of established immigrants who help others attain what they've achieved. They are, in effect, the go-betweens from those who bring the immigrants and those who make the fake ID papers - a service they say they provide for free.

"A coyote will call and say, 'Does your boss need more workers?' or 'Can you help get this person some papers?' " says David, whose main job is as a landscaper. "It's easy. I'll have a number for a [document] guy and call him. We'll meet at the major intersection out here, say, in half an hour. I give him $50 or $100, whatever he's asking, a photo of the person, and a name," he adds. "About 45 minutes later, he'll call me to come meet him on the same corner with the papers - a Social Security card and a green card."

If that won't work, David adds, he drives to the nearest Food City, a chain that specializes in Hispanic goods. There, he says, he just asks around. "There are even guys there who'll hand you business cards - they're in the business of providing fake documents."

Raul, who works in construction, says it's not uncommon to get a call from a coyote in the morning and, by afternoon, have jobs and fake documents for the newly arrived illegals. The two won't tell how many illegal immigrants they help, but say they get called at least weekly.

All of the arrests at the Swift plants Tuesday targeted illegal immigrants who held actual - not fake - Social Security numbers. Many businesses that make use of immigrant labor participate in a national test program for employers called Basic Pilot, an online system to verify employees' Social Security numbers.

But the fake-documents manufacturers are wise to this, say David and Raul. In Arizona, they assign Social Security numbers that begin with 601 - numbers the government apparently assigns people from Arizona. Employers then don't readily recognize a fake document, and, the men say, it takes at least a year for the government to recognize a duplicate number. That means the illegal immigrant can work in the US for up to a year before being sent home.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano set up an Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force in July 2005 as part of a crackdown on crime related to illegal immigration. Since then, the task force has focused in part on fraudulent documents. In doing so, it has issued more than 100 search warrants resulting in 178 defendants charged with 1,400 crimes, says Leesa Morrison, director of the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.

"Most astounding," adds Ms. Morrison, "is that in this short period our undercover agents have purchased over 1,000 fraudulent immigration documents. What's frightening is that [they] are able to purchase a three-pack - a driver's license, a Social Security card, and a permanent-resident card - for about $160 on the street."

 

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Crossing the ID border

The Monitor's View

Americans learned last week they can no longer look the other way when someone else hires an illegal worker. A federal raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in the US nabbed more than 1,250 "undocumented" migrants - and dozens were charged with using the IDs of real people, perhaps even of children.

The usual practice for many of the estimated 12 million illegal migrants living in the US has been to buy fake IDs with made-up numbers and names. But organized rings in at least 10 cities now sell authentic-looking Social Security cards and some 26 other types of IDs with real names.

These IDs make it even more difficult for employers to reject illegal workers - if employers even bother to check. Such forgery has reached an "epidemic," say federal officials, with illegal migrants and their handlers now violating both the privacy rights and economic rights of innocent Americans.

In one case, a man named Jason Smith found he owed $12,000 in back taxes because an illegal immigrant used his Social Security number to work at a chicken plant for three years.

To avoid detection, fake-ID rings often use a child's identity. Usually, only when the children reach 18 would they find out they have a record of bad credit or other financial complication. One Mexico-based ring's reach is so "breathtaking," a federal judge stated in one case, that it hits "at the heart of the sovereignty of the United States."

Most identity theft is done to steal money, not work in someone's name. But with about 1 in 30 Americans now having their financial identities stolen each year, and with illegal migrants making up nearly 1 in 20 workers, a dangerous link has been made between two massive violations of law. Government is cracking down on ID theft, but both states and Congress have only begun to come to grips with illegal migration - despite the threat of terrorists using fake IDs to hide in the US.

A federal system that allows employers to check Social Security IDs is flawed because it cannot detect cases where migrants use legitimate names and numbers. (Swift & Co. uses the system, but only a fraction of companies do.)

Even if this system is improved, ID thieves may find new ways around it. And expanding a guest-worker program for Mexicans may only be compromised by other ways of forging documents; in addition, that program may never be large enough to curb the flow of illegal migration.

Another offered solution - "earned amnesty" - would be difficult if illegals simply buy fake records to claim they've been in the US for years. And amnesty is hardly a reward to give those who knowingly commit the felony of identity theft.

Congress recently boosted border enforcement and raised fines on employers who hire illegals. Both measures are good first steps and need to be pursued effectively for years. Companies need to raise wages high enough to attract legal workers, while law enforcement needs to show a consistent record of cracking down on employers who knowingly hire illegals.

No one's true identity can ever be stolen. But Americans need to know that both their financial and border security are not at risk.

 

*The fake ID business: some previous busts

April 2005: In Florida, immigration agents arrested 52, including several state Department of Motor Vehicles officials, alleged to be part of a scheme to make and sell fake driver's licenses and hazmat licenses to more than 2,000 illegal immigrants. The same month, other sweeps revealed fraudulent license schemes in Michigan and Maryland.

May 2005: In Mississippi, Cedric Carpenter and Lamont Ranson pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell fake documents to members of Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based Islamist terrorist group.

February 2006: A lieutenant in the Mexican-based Castorena family organization, a fraudulent document outfit that controls cells in 33 states, was sentenced in Denver to 11 years in prison. More than 50 members of this international counterfeit operation have been prosecuted in Denver alone. Its leader, Pedro Castorena-Ibarra, was arrested in June by Mexican officers and is awaiting extradition to the US.

March 2006: Agents busted seven counterfeit-document labs in Los Angeles and charged 11 people with supplying fraudulent immigration and identity documents.

June 2006: In Boston, immigration agents arrested nine people accused of running a phony document ring. They seized document-forging tools and six computers at five homes. The sweeps led to the arrests of 13 undocumented Brazilian and Guatemalan nationals.

Sources: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Associated Press

 

 
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 “This organization is considered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as one of the largest internationally, with connections in Central America and Mexico.”

 

“Identity theft is the fastest growing white collar crime in America today and is often motivated by organized rings that sell these stolen identities to illegal aliens seeking illegal employment.

 

 

This story was first broken on the Wake Up America Talk Show "A Minuteman Project Chapter" Hosted by Steve Eichler.

 


 

A Mexican clan of document forgers operates in 33 states, including Illinois. In Chicago, their annual take is around $2.5 million, and their main collaborators are gang members. Los Angeles - In 1848 what came to be called the Gold Rush started. People came to California from all over the world to seek their fortunes. The idea of getting rich without much effort was the main reason they left their countries and headed for the promised land to seek the precious metal. And so did Pedro Castorena-Ibarra and Manuel Leija-Sánchez, albeit 138 years later. In 1987 they found their goldmine in California. At that time the United States Congress had just passed a law giving amnesty to the undocumented who were living in the country.

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