CA-Couple Charged With Producing Fake Immigration IDs

Couple Charged With Producing Fake Immigration IDs

POSTED: 11:40 am PDT October 16, 2009
UPDATED: 4:15 pm PDT October 16, 2009


FRESNO, Calif. -- United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown announced that on Thursday, a federal grand jury returned a multiple-count indictment charging Salomon Rodriguez and Veronica Capitaine-Rosales with possession, transfer, production, and sale of fraudulent United States immigration and social security identification documents out of Fresno and Tulare Counties.

Rodriguez and Capitaine-Rosales are scheduled to appear in court before United States Magistrate Judge Dennis L. Beck, Friday at 2 p.m.

The case is the product of an extensive investigation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

According to Assistant United States Attorneys Ian Garriques and Susan Phan, who are prosecuting the case, the indictment alleges that between January 26 and October 6, 2009, Rodriguez and Capitaine-Rosales possessed, transferred, produced, and sold fraudulent immigration and identification documents including United States social security cards and alien registration receipt cards (commonly known as “green cardsâ€

This problem is just going to grow with any amnesty wrought upon us. And all of this is at the taxpayers' expense.