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False Document Venders, Criminal Aliens, and the Arizona Borders

By John W. Slagle
February 15, 2006
Counterfeit and false document venders have been involved in criminal activities world wide for centuries. Identity documents, birth certificates, bills of sale to any item needed for any purpose is available. At numerous locations in Guatemala City, Guatemala, a person requiring a false identity or legend could obtain photo copies of original birth records, attach a passport size photo and become a citizen of any country desired. Mexican credulas or credentials were in great demand as well as counterfeit U.S. documents, low quality resident alien cards. In Mexico, false documents are readily available through organized smuggling rings.

Photo substitution on a valid passport, Visa or genuine U.S. alien registration was another method of bogus entry. This rarely passed close scrutiny by any Immigration Inspector. Selling or sending back valid Immigration documents for another foreign national to use has been a standard ploy for years.

The hundreds of trails leading north from the Border is littered with discarded foreign passports and identity links, true as well as assumed names. The only method that establishes who a person might be is the “finger printingâ€