Illegal Immigration: Americans Fighting Back - NC License Issue Explodes: Illegal Alien Gang Rape Suspects had Valid NC Licens

ALIPAC NOTE: To read about the recent political background on NC's license policies and illegal aliens go to NC Senator Fern Shubert's Background Info on NC DMV.

Senator Shubert is not running in the general election but Patrick Ballantine (R-NC) is and he has made the license issue a central theme. (Licenses, Security, Laws, Illegal Immigration, Americans)

To see Ballantine's exchange on the issue during the last debate visit...

Ballantine (On Left) Confronts Easley.

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Gang Rape and the Governor Yes, there is a connection

BY TARA SERVATIUS October 27, 2004

Creative Loafing Magazine: Charlotte, NC

www.Creativeloafing.com

Three weeks ago, seven men were charged with gang raping a woman in Huntersville. Most people probably don't associate Governor Mike Easley and the Division of Motor Vehicles with the crime, but there is a connection.

All seven men charged in the rape have two critical things in common. All are illegal aliens. And all seven have driver's licenses issued by the state of North Carolina, Huntersville Police Detective A. Dempski confirmed for Creative Loafing last week.

Perhaps these men would have come here anyway and committed this crime if they couldn't get a license so effortlessly from the DMV. But the DMV sure is making it easy for them -- easy for them to drive, easy for them to earn a living, easy for them to break immigration law.

When Easley looked into the camera two weeks ago during the gubernatorial debate and insisted that you need a Social Security number to get a driver's license in this state, he flat-out lied.

Governor Easley's (Candidate on Right) lie on tape.

Easley's Campaign Website.

Ballantine's Campaign Website.

There have been a lot of whoppers told this election season, but this was probably the biggest. It's the same one Easley's administration has been telling for over a year now even though he knows better.

The truth is that you need a Social Security number to get a license in this state if you have one. If you don't because you're here illegally, well, that's no problem. You can just use something called an individual tax identification number (ITIN) instead.

I've read enough. I'm ready to join the fight against illegal immigration.

An ITIN is a tax processing number the IRS gave out, in the words of Congressman Tom Tancredo, "like candy" to people who work here but aren't eligible to get a Social Security number. The IRS has issued six million since 1996. Only two million have ever been used to file tax forms. The status of the rest is unknown. Last year, federal agents testified that they're pretty easy to buy on the black market.

ITIN cards provide no proof that those who possess them are here legally, much less that they actually are who they claim to be. The situation so concerned IRS officials from a terrorism perspective that they sent a letter last fall to the nation's governors, including Easley, asking them to stop accepting ITINs. The Easley administration ignored them. At the time, the Washington Times reported, North Carolina was one of six states still accepting ITINs. What has confused most people on this issue is that the DMV stopped accepting other questionable forms of ID earlier this year. But it never stopped taking the ITINs.

The problem here is that those licenses the state's been issuing on Easley's watch aren't just used by illegal alien rapists who need to get around town. They're also used by passengers as identification when they board planes.

A statement you have to hunt for on the DMV's site reads, "If you do not have a valid Social Security Number and if you are ineligible to obtain one, you may present an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)."

In front of me right now is a copy of the official "Requirements for Identification" used by the DMV since February 2. It mandates that the DMV accept ITINs in lieu of Social Security numbers.....

Read entire story here.

Background Information