Lou Dobbs Tonight — CNN

Mexicans fight attempt to send ailing illegal alien home (Click headline)

…And tonight, you won’t believe this, a hospital in Chicago that has saved the life of an illegal alien at tremendous financial expense is now being accused by the man’s family of discriminating against him because he is a citizen of Mexico. We’ll have that special report… [Thanks to ‘Lone Wolf’ for uploading the video to YouTube] [Transcript]

Orange County Register — Santa Ana, Calif.

Multi-culti Madness: English-only school could hamper students, principal says

The principal of Marco Forster Middle School, which a parent last week complained is run like a “Mexican public school,” says all students are well-served there and that teaching students about a variety of cultures can ultimately lead to understanding…

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Yuma Sun

Border Patrol agents arrest MS-13 gang member

A member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang, who previously was arrested as a murder suspect, is back in custody after being arrested near Yuma by U.S. Border Patrol agents. — The unidentified gang member, a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested Monday night after he illegally entered the country, the patrol said…

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My Marietta Daily Journal column today: PLEASE contact your state Rep and state Senator and tell them you want this Mexican ID banned for any and all Georgia government acceptance. Contact info HERE

Marietta Daily Journal

Mexican Matricula Consular ID poses danger to U.S. ( Here )

08/20/2008
By D.A. King
Columnist

“Federal officials have arrested alien smugglers who have had as many as seven different Matricula Consular cards in their possession. … These criminal threats are significant, but it is the terrorist threat presented by the Matricula Consular that is most worrisome.” – Testimony of Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, June 26, 2003

“I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico” – Mexican president Felipe Caldron in a September 2, 2007 address to the Mexican nation.

If you drive by the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta on any given day, it is likely that you could view a line of illegal aliens waiting outside for their turn to buy an ID card called a “Matricula Consular.”

Few readers have heard about the Mexican photo ID. Even fewer know that the Mexican government also has permanent mobile consulates that travel the Southeast – and the nation – dispensing the driver’s license-sized ID cards. Or that the only people who are in need of one of these little “stealth amnesty” cards are illegal aliens.

Anyone who has entered the nation lawfully will have easy access to secure and verifiable U.S. issued ID – like a passport and a valid visa.

The Mexican government fearlessly admits the Matricula Consular ID is issued regardless of immigration status. The respected Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies reports that the objective of the Mexican government with the matriculas “is to achieve quasi-legal status for Mexican illegals in the United States without waiting for action from Washington” and is “a direct challenge to U.S. sovereignty.”

FBI Special Agent McGraw also testified to the Congressional Committee that “the Department of Justice and FBI have concluded the Matricula Consular is not a reliable form of identification, due to the non-existence of any means of verifying the true identity of the card holder.”

“At least one individual of Middle Eastern descent has also been arrested in possession of the Matricula Consular card,” McGraw said.

Alarmingly, Mexican authorities have reported that it issued 963,782 cards in 2004, 830,987 in 2005 and 929,702 in 2006. American law enforcement reports that it is not unusual to arrest someone with multiple matriculas.

About here, the reader may be assuming that with such damning and undeniable evidence, that no matter how many matriculas have been issued that no one in their right mind would accept the ID as valid … right?

Wrong. A Matricula Consular can be used to board an airliner in 21st century America.

In a stunning example of “follow the money”, it was primarily the U.S. banking industry’s lobby that was successful in overcoming the well-founded objections to recognizing the sham ID.

Banks get a commission on money wired out of the U.S. – whether or not it was legally earned. The next time you are in line at your local bank, watch to see how many times the teller takes a Matricula s ID to cash a check.

The mortgage industry wails when anyone suggests that the Matricula should not be accepted as photo ID when making a mortgage loan to illegal aliens.

Try not to think “money laundering.”

Mexico received more than $20 billion sent back home by its citizens last year. But most Mexican banks reject the card – as too insecure.

In a little noted or publicized, but very commendable action, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners recently voted unanimously to create a list of county government accepted ID – and the Matricula Consular is not on that list.

Here, we are lucky that for Cobb government business, we only accept American ID.

“Identification issued by the federal and/or state government requires an acceptable level of proof that the applicant is actually the same person to whom an ID has been issued,” explained Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens.

Unless we want to prove Mexican president Calderon correct, the entire state of Georgia should listen to Olens and make the Matricula Consular illegal for acceptance by any government agency in Georgia.

Georgians who value what remains of American sovereignty and any sense of security should insist the Georgia legislature gets that message.

D.A. King of east Cobb is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. He has used two Matricula mock-ups – one bearing the name “Al Quada Gonzalez” – to educate the public on the dangers of Mexican Matricula consular ID.

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

Latest news from south of the border

A radio station in Chiquimula, Guatemala, is airing this ad: “We offer trips to the north, in quality buses, and it is only necessary to walk one hour at the border with Mexico. We take you only if you have relatives in the U.S., but we guarantee your arrival. The people traffickers then “shamelessly” furnish their phone number…

NumbersUSA

Federal/Local 287(g) Partnerships Work
Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 7:14 AM

Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania state legislators attending the annual Quad State Legislative conference learned about why the 287(g) program, which trains local law enforcement officers to engage in immigration enforcement activities and enables them to initiate deportation proceedings for illegal aliens, is a fast-growing success.

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Marietta Daily Journal

The most recent example of Rich Pellegrino’s “love” HERE

Jim Wright/Letter to the Editor: Pellegrino should focus his efforts on Mexico 08/17/2008
Mr. Pellegrino is correct that everything is not “hunky dory” in Cobb.

Allen Brock/Letter to the Editor: Pellegrino’s saber-rattling liberalism at its finest 08/17/2008
I usually read the crud written by the liberals who want to make excuses for the lawbreakers and illegal residents in our County, get mad and move on, but I must take exception to being lectured by Mr. Pellegrino about loving my neighbor

Neil Axelrod Letter to editor: Tired of name-calling by immigration advocates 08/19/2008
DEAR EDITOR:

Jacobson runs all of its potential hires through the government’s E-Verify system to make sure applicants are in the U.S. legally and are able to work.

Associated Press
08/15/2008

Recruiters fill the void after immigration raids

The largest single-site workplace raid in U.S. history may have cost a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa nearly half its employees, but it’s been a boon to labor recruiters around the country. — After federal immigration agents raided Agriprocessors, Inc., and arrested nearly 400 undocumented workers, Gavino Bravo’s phone started ringing….

Center for Immigration Studies

IDs for Illegals The ‘Matricula Consular’ Advances Mexico’s Immigration Agenda

January 2003

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a migration deal with Mexico was tabled while attention turned to homeland security. So the Mexican government abruptly changed its White House strategy and substituted a grass-roots approach that would focus at the local level, seek small successes, and build momentum for congressional action. The linchpin for this new strategy was to be the “matricula consular,” an official identity card issued by the Mexican government, which it wanted to be officially recognized within the United States.

This Backgrounder is the first detailed examination of the matricula issue. Among the findings:

* The matricula consular is useful in the United States only for illegal aliens, since legal immigrants, by definition, have U.S. government-issued documents.

* The Mexican government has launched an aggressive grassroots lobbying campaign to win acceptance for its matricula card from state and local jurisdictions and from banks, especially in areas where Mexican illegal aliens are concentrated.

* The objective of this lobbying effort is to achieve quasi-legal status for Mexican illegals in the United States without waiting for action from Washington.

* The matricula itself, however, is useful to illegal aliens only insofar as U.S. institutions are willing to collaborate with Mexico’s efforts to circumvent U.S. immigration law.

* While many jurisdictions have resisted pressure from the Mexican government, others have not; the matricula is now accepted by 800 local law enforcement agencies and 74 banks, as well as by 13 states for purposes of obtaining a driver’s license.

* Not only does the matricula subvert U.S. immigration law, it is not even a secure identity document. Mexico is not authenticating the documents used to obtain the matricula against computerized data files in Mexico.

* Safeguards are not in place to prevent multiple issuance of matriculas to the same individual; in fact, the INS has already reported finding multiple cards in different names issued to the same person.

* The matricula is becoming a shield that hides criminal activity for two reasons: first, the holder’s identity was not verified when the card was issued, and second, police in jurisdictions that accept the matricula are less likely to run background checks on card holders picked up for minor infractions.

* The U.S. Treasury Department has given its approval to banks to accept the matricula for opening bank accounts.

* The acceptance of Mexico’s matricula consular sets a precedent, making it almost impossible to reject similar cards presented by illegal aliens from other countries, including those which have sent terrorists to the United States in the past.

Early in September 2001, the Mexican government had every expectation that it would soon achieve its principal foreign policy goal — a comprehensive migration agreement with the United States that would create new guest worker programs, exempt Mexico from visa limits, and “regularize” the immigration status of the estimated three to five million Mexicans already living in the United States illegally.

After 9/11, public and congressional opposition in the United States to an illegal-alien amnesty hardened and made such a deal impossible. In its place, Mexico sought piecemeal changes, centered on gaining acceptance in the United States for the “matricula consular.” But Mexico’s new approach has become a direct challenge to U.S. sovereignty — by aggressively lobbying state and local governments, Mexico is changing America’s de facto immigration policy in lieu of congressional action. And it has been doing so while the U.S. government watched — or even gave its tacit consent.

Rebirth of the Matricula

The issue of secure identification became a national concern in the United States after it was discovered that all 19 9/11 hijackers had valid or fake Social Security numbers and 18 of the 19 had authentic or phony driver’s licenses or motor vehicle ID cards. There was a public outcry and steps were taken to tighten the eligibility requirements for both Social Security cards and driver’s licenses. It has became common operating procedure for ID to be required in order to enter certain buildings, gain access to secure areas at airports, and attend high-profile public activities, like New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Life became even more difficult for the undocumented, the majority of whom are Mexicans.

Wanting to ensure that its nationals could illegally remain in the United States with as little hassle as possible, the Fox government turned its attention to providing them with Mexican identification that would be accepted by U.S. authorities.

Simply providing passports was not a viable option. The United States requires Mexican citizens to obtain a visa before entering the country, a nicety ignored by people who cross our borders without permission. Possession of a Mexican passport without a visa would only highlight their illegal status.

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