Thread: New Brunswick NJ: Mobile Mex. Consulate on the loose again!

Helping illegal alien MExicans to evade our laws, and access benefits/privileges that should be reserved exculsively for LEGAL immigrants and citizens.....Shameful....

http://media.www.dailytargum.com/media/ ... 3977.shtml

Thousands of Mexican migrants camp out on New Street overnight in hopes of receiving a passport during The Consulate on Wheels' 5-day stop in New Brunswick.
Mexican migrants line city sidewalks for passports
By: Michelle Cerone / Metro Editor
Posted: 4/1/08
Thousands of people, mostly Mexican migrants, waited, some for up to 24 hours, last week to receive passports from a temporary mobile Mexican consulate set up at Middlesex Community College center on New Street.

The Consulate on Wheels, which was in the city for five days beginning last Monday, issued about 2,500 passports to Mexican citizens. They had to turn away others who did not have the correct paperwork or were not Mexican citizens.

"What we do is, people stand in line outside," Yolanda Castro, consul of the Consulate on Wheels said. "We try to determine from the very outside if they are applicants that will be able to get their documents with whatever they show us right there."

She said they check to see if the documents are the originals and then help people fill out the paper work.

The consulate hopes to provide this service year round so people do not have to wait on such long lines, Castro said.

"It's not nice. It's not good and it's not worth it," she said about the long wait.

New Brunswick Tomorrow organized the mobile consulate with the Mexican consulate. The organization, founded in 1975, manages the social revitalization of the city and focuses on health, human service and educational issues Jeffery Vega, the president of the organization said.

"Before this we met with the ambassador from the Mexican consulate's office who asked for us to coordinate the effort," Vega said. "We reached out to the two Mexican American organizations and the Lazos America Unida and reached out to them because they are the ones who have contact with the community."

Vega said, in New Brunswick, the largest segment of the Hispanic community is Mexican, which made it an ideal location for the consulate to stop.

"People are expecting to be received so they stay overnight, with children, elders. It doesn't matter if it's raining. It was raining yesterday," Teresa Vivar said. Vivar is the president of Lazos America Unida, a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes the exchange of knowledge.

Adrian Torres, 15, came Friday, with his parents and younger sister to get their passports. He said they had been waiting since 4 a.m. and passed the time sleeping on the street.

The Torres family is originally from the city of Puebla in Mexico, but his family moved four years ago because they wanted a better life, Torres said.

Prior to this, he said the family had been waiting to get their passports for months.

Vivar said the Mexican consulate is offering identification and passports through the mobile consulate because it is difficult for many of to people to get to the consulate in New York.

"It's hard for them to go [into the city] sometimes," Vivar said. "Some people are afraid, also, to travel. They don't know the city."

She said people with expired passports or no passports at all often wait for the mobile consulate to come around, but this causes a long line.

"Basically, we just try to support," Vivar said. "We come during the night. We try to support them in anyway possible."

She said the First Reformed Church allowed people to sleep in the church. Some people wanted to go but others were afraid to leave the street because they thought they would lose the opportunity to receive a passport if they got out of line she said.

"There is still a huge need of accommodations of people waiting," Vivar said. "We have different organizations, at this moment, helping out as volunteers." © Copyright 2008 The Daily Targum

mobile Mexican consulate set up at Middlesex Community College center on New Street.

Another Mexican mobile consulate using school property!

Vivar said the Mexican consulate is offering identification and passports through the mobile consulate because it is difficult for many of to people to get to the consulate in New York.

"It's hard for them to go [into the city] sometimes," Vivar said. "Some people are afraid, also, to travel. They don't know the city."

A weak arguement considering the illegal immigrants crossed the border and made it all they way to N.J.

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Anyone else feel like giving them a surprise present of a traditional gift of Mexican culture to their van's "you know where"

Great picture Richard!

The Mex Govt is meddling and pushing the American people around. They seem to have the feds effectively stifled but the states taking action, however late, seemed to get them worked up. Now they have to catch up deploying as many consulates as possible and pushing around the state and local governments as well as the people. They also have several little 'puppets'.
They are NOT our friends.

I'm confused here.

Isn't the usual process for obtaining a passport to do so within the boundaries of one's home country, and only obtaining one from your consulate in a foreign country if your passport has been lost, stolen, destoryed, etc?

If this is correct, then how is it that the Mexican consulate is able to issue these documents to illegal aliens in an effort to somehow legitimize their presence here?

What, once these people have these passports, are they able to do with them?

Putting aside that these folks are well-dressed and don't seem hungry or oppressed, what would their motivation be to seek passports? I'd opine they'll use them as an obfuscation to confuse some biased or uninformed bureaucrat that they're here legally. In the extremely liberal New Jersey, it's a passport to free education, medical care food, housing and occasionally clothing and transportation.

She said people with expired passports or no passports at all often wait for the mobile consulate to come around, but this causes a long line.

People apply for a passport to enter a country. Possessing a passport gives the illusion the owner entered the country legally.

A Mexican consulate granting a passport AFTER THE FACT the person has entered the U.S.--is that legal?
I could see re-issuing passports if the present one is going to expire or obtaining one for children.
Are Mexican consulates engaging in a form of fraud?

Is a passport an accepted document for airline flights?

With a list of passport and matricula card holders in the U.S. the Mexican government can get directly in touch with these people about United States/Mexican issues.

The matricula consular is not a Mexican passport. Mexican passports are obtained here in Mexico, before a legal Mexican border-crosser goes to the U.S. A matricula consular is issued in Mexican consulates in the U.S. specifically to Mexicans who are already in the U.S.

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