Chevy Chase Bank Employee Resigns Because Bank Aids Illegal Immigrants!
Posted on Monday, February 16 @ 07:11:30 EST
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 Employee acts to take America back, resigns to stop helping illegals in U.S.
A personal banker in Arlington, Va., is quitting
his job after Chevy Chase Bank, one of the largest and best-known banks
in the Washington, D.C., region, announced it will begin accepting
consular cards from customers who many suspect are illegal aliens.
The bank announced its "Hispanic Banking Initiative" during a pilot
program and is now accepting Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridads, or
MCAS, at all of its branches so customers without U.S. government IDs
may open accounts.
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The MCAS is an identification card issued to
foreign nationals living in the U.S. by the Mexican government via
their 47 consulates. The National Council of La Raza estimates that
more than 350 financial institutions currently accept them. Customers
with the IDs – including illegal aliens – are able to open checking and
savings accounts, order check cards, safe deposit boxes, cashier's
checks and wire billions of dollars to Mexico.
"I was becoming stressed out at work because I just knew in my heart
that if someone came to me with this card I couldn't just compromise my
principles and open an account for them," Chevy Chase personal banker
Albert Thompson told WND.
The U.S. banking system relies on Social Security numbers to track
accounts, verify identity and report taxable earnings to the
government.
"Accepting the Matricula skirts that issue," Bankers Online reports.
"Many Mexicans who work in the United States do so in order to send
money back to their homes in Mexico. FDIC says about $18 billion is
wired annually from the U.S. to Mexico. Many U.S. banks have welcomed
the IDs as a way to get a cut of this activity by profiting from the
handling charges on the wires and increased deposits."
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After praying about his circumstances, Thompson said he is taking a
stand – even if it means facing unemployment during a recession.
"I came to understand that sacrificing my principles is more expensive
to the soul than unemployment is for my wallet," he said.
Now he is refusing to compromise his values by catering to customers who have violated U.S. immigration law.
Mexican Matricula Consular card (photo: Migration Policy Institute)
"I always knew that the bank was doing this," he said. "I just didn't
want to be a part of it. So, I deliberately did everything I could
every time I worked for the bank to avoid being placed at a branch that
was part of this initiative."
Thompson said Chevy Chase Bank recognized that there is a growing
Hispanic population in the Washington, D.C., area, so it decided to
capitalize on that part of the market. But he believes problematic ID
cards issued by foreign governments compromise the nation because many
people who use them are in the United States illegally.
"What effort the consulates actually go through to verify that person's
identity and location is questionable, which is why the bank requires
an additional proof of residency – like a U.S. cell phone bill," he
said. "It's as simple as that – a cell phone bill with an address in
the U.S. and that card. Then we just take their word for it."
The U.S Treasury allows financial institutions to accept the Matricula
Consular card as a valid form of ID. On Oct. 21, 2002, it issued a USA
PATRIOT Act statement to Congress proposing rules that would require
financial institutions to create customer identification and
verification programs for all new accounts.
However, it states, "[T]he proposed regulations do not discourage bank
acceptance of the 'matricula consular' identity card that is being
issued by the Mexican government to immigrants."
But in 2003, the FBI Assistant Director Steve McCraw testified before
Congress about terrorist and identity fraud threats associated with
consular ID cards.
"The Government of Mexico has been particularly aggressive in marketing
the use of its consular ID card, the Matricula Consular," his testimony
revealed. "The crucial element in the acceptance of any consular ID
card is the ability to verify the actual true identity of the bearer of
the card. In today's post-9/11 world, this element is all the more
important because, in order to protect the American people, we must be
able to determine whether an individual is who he purports to be."
McCraw said foreign nationals who are in the United States legally have
little need for Matricula Consular cards because they have passports
available to prove identity, open bank accounts, gain access to federal
facilities, board planes and obtain driver's licenses.
"It is believed that consular ID cards are primarily being utilized by illegal aliens in the United States," he said.
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After the U.S. government conducted extensive research on the Matricula
Consular card, the Department of Justice and FBI concluded it is "not a
reliable form of identification, due to the non-existence of any means
of verifying the true identity of the card holder."
McCraw listed the following problems with the foreign ID:
First, the Government of Mexico has no centralized database to
coordinate the issuance of consular ID cards. This allows multiple
cards to be issued under the same name, the same address, or with the
same photograph.
Second, the Government of Mexico has no interconnected databases to
provide intra-consular communication to be able to verify who has or
has not applied for or received a consular ID card.
Third, the Government of Mexico issues the card to anyone who can
produce a Mexican birth certificate and one other form of identity,
including documents of very low reliability. Mexican birth certificates
are easy to forge and they are a major item on the product list of the
fraudulent document trade currently flourishing across the country and
around the world. A September 2002 bust of a document production
operation in Washington state illustrated the size of this trade. A
huge cache of fake Mexican birth certificates was discovered. It is our
belief that the primary reason a market for these birth certificates
exists is the demand for fraudulently-obtained Matricula Consular
cards.
Fourth, in some locations, when an individual seeking a Matricula
Consular is unable to produce any documents whatsoever, he will still
be issued a Matricula Consular by the Mexican consular official, if he
fills out a questionnaire and satisfies the official that he is who he
purports to be.
McCraw said the consular card is vulnerable to forgery and that 90
percent of the estimated 2 million IDs in circulation are simply
laminated cards without security features. He listed two major criminal
threats posed by the cards, and one potential terrorist threat.
The first criminal threat emerges as illegal aliens use the ID cards as
"breeder documents" for establishing a false identity. At the time of
the report, McCraw said 13 states used the consular ID for providing
driver's licenses.
"Once in possession of a driver's license, a criminal is well on his
way to using the false identity to facilitate a variety of crimes, from
money laundering to check fraud," he said. "And of course, the false
identity serves to conceal a criminal who is already being sought by
law enforcement."
These criminals often open bank accounts under several different
aliases and may have numerous IDs with the same photo and different
names.
The second criminal threat McCraw listed concerns human smuggling across U.S. borders.
"Federal officials have arrested alien smugglers who have had as many
as seven different Matricula Consular cards in their possession," he
said. "The cards not only conceal the identity of the smuggler, they
also serve as a magnet for the victims who are enticed to entrust their
lives to the smugglers, believing that the Matricula Consular that
awaits them will entitle them to all sorts of benefits within the
United States."
Despite the gravity of the first two threats, McCraw called the
terrorist threat "most worrisome." While federal officials have come
across people from different countries who have consular IDs, most are
citizens of Central or South American countries – but least one
individual of Middle Eastern descent has also been arrested in
possession of a consular card.
He said, "The ability of foreign nationals to use the Matricula
Consular to create a well-documented, but fictitious, identity in the
United States provides an opportunity for terrorists to move freely
within the United States without triggering name-based watch lists that
are disseminated to local police officers."
McCraw said terrorists can transfer money from one financial
institution to another and even board planes using the cards as
identification.
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., also warned against the acceptance of consular cards.
"The only people who benefit from having such an ID are those who have come illegally and have broken our laws," he said.
Albert Thompson
In a June 12, 2003, letter to Secretary Colin Powell, he wrote, "...
using their consular offices here as lobbying agents to help undermine
our immigration laws is an outrage and the State Department's apparent
acquiescence in this endeavor is even more incredible. … If you do not
take steps to halt our cooperation and support of this practice, our
country will see a virtual tidal wave of such cards issued to illegal
alien by their embassies and consulates in the U.S."
On Sept. 14, 2004, Congress rejected a proposal that would have
prohibited financial institutions from accepting consular IDs – and
U.S. financial institutions continued to tap the market by offering
banking services to illegal aliens.
"Rational human beings should ask themselves if someone is obviously
not an American citizen, they are in the country without U.S.
government ID and without a passport, how on Earth can they be in the
country legally?" Thompson asked. "Does Congress think the American
people are stupid?"
While he said he enjoyed working with his co-workers at the bank for
several years prior to the policy change, Thompson believes it's time
for American patriots and Christians to finally stand on principle and
refuse to support businesses and entertainment companies that do not
share their values.
And he said he's doing his part to take America back – starting with his resignation.
"I think it's time American Christians realize that we have allowed
ourselves to become so dependent upon individuals in business and
entertainment who have abandoned their responsibility to the common
good and the stability of the community that we have not invested our
own ingenuity into business, entertainment or technology," Thompson
said. "In essence, we are financing people who are against what we
believe and who are, either purposely or just out of ambition for their
businesses, harming America."
He asked, "Why should Christians and patriots always be on the
defensive against bad policies? Where are the Christian businessmen and
entrepreneurs who can create companies that are viable and profitable
so that Christians can work without being placed in a position where
they have to choose principle over a paycheck?"
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