Thread: Illegal Aliens Arrested in Virginia Had B of A Credit Cards

Two detainees wanted
Illegal immigrant suspects had records. Two of 9 caught at hotel are fugitives, Morganelli says.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
By SARAH CASSI
The Express-Times

EASTON | Two of the nine suspected illegal immigrants detained Monday when they arrived for work at Hotel Bethlehem had criminal records, District Attorney John Morganelli said Tuesday.

Morganelli said Flor Rocha, of Falls Church, Va., was wanted in California for a dangerous drugs charge, but officials wouldn't extradite him back to California. Juan Carlos Hinjosa, of Springfield, Va., was wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after he was arrested in February 2005.

The illegal immigrants -- seven from Bolivia, one from El Salvador and one from Guatemala -- were working for a subcontractor putting up drywall at the hotel. Morganelli received a complaint that led to the investigation and apprehension of the nine men.

Morganelli said the subcontractor was a Virginia-based company which claims the men were individual contractors.

"We know that's just a way to avoid worker's compensation," Morganelli said. He added the title of individual contractor gives the company plausible deniability in immigration cases.

Eight of the men lived in Virginia and one lived in Maryland. Morganelli said none would face local charges. The men were turned over to immigration officials and taken into federal custody.

Morganelli said two of the men were able to get Bank of America credit cards under a new program where the bank does not require social security numbers or a credit history to open an account.

The cards listed the men's names with additional last names.

"Obviously they're not doing a good job identifying their customers," Morganelli said.

Morganelli said he was also disappointed with response from ICE officials

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When county detectives asked for ICE's help, immigration officials asked detectives why they weren't apprehending gang members or drug dealers, Morganelli said.

"I'm very annoyed by this," Morganelli said. "Our office does not need to be questioned we expect (ICE) to do their job." .

A recent government report found ICE has lost track of 623,000 fugitive aliens, Morganelli said.

Morganelli said this wasn't the first time his office faced disrespect from customs enforcement. Morganelli said he has lodged a complaint with Congressman Charlie Dent and planned to speak with U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan.

Ernestine Fobbs, an ICE spokeswoman, said the agency responded when Morganelli asked for assistance and all nine men are going through the removal process.

"This is something we do on a daily basis across the nation," Fobbs said.

Fobbs said Morganelli could contact the Law Enforcement Support Center if he had any issues with ICE.

Reporter Sarah Cassi can be reached at 610-258-7171 or by e-mail at scassi@express-times.com.

We told you so!

Bank of Illegal Aliens and Drug Dealers.

Dixie

Morganelli said two of the men were able to get Bank of America credit cards under a new program where the bank does not require social security numbers or a credit history to open an account.

The cards listed the men's names with additional last names.

"Obviously they're not doing a good job identifying their customers," Morganelli said.

Obviously they could care less............it is all about greed! SHAME on Bank of America . I hope they feel the heat from this THE GREEDY TRAITORS!

We need this on the alipac homepage.

W

I just new when this was reported yesterday that they were the ones Lou Dobbs was talking about and you could tell he was very happy to report these guys had BofA Visa cards. How great is this!! This makes today perfect, thank you!!

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And there off.

I received this email from "District Attorney John M. Morganelli"
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Dear Friends:

I will be appearing today, April 4, 2007 on Fox News Network's Neal Cavuto Show at 4:00pm to discuss arrest of illegal aliens who were carrying Bank of America cards with them.

Thank You!!

District Attorney John M. Morganelli

You can walk into any branch of Bank America in the Washington DC area and it is filled with illegals. In fact the bank tellers must speak spanish to work at the bank. It is bad. The schools are overcrowded due to illegals, the hospitals are going out of business, the highways are crowded and we have drunk illegals on the streets all the time. There are gangs of illegals in front of 7-elevens. And this is within miles of congress and the white house. Of course most of the senators and congressmen live in gated communities or protected apartments and hire illegals as gardners and housekeepers. The construction industry has so many illegals and builders don't hire supervisors that speak spanish and naturally the workers refuse to speak english so houses are built which don't conform to code and you have to hire another company to rebuild.

Recently I talked to a lady from Fort Blevior and under the new housing contract for the military base, workers are allowed to enter the houses without someone being home and non of the workers speak english. How would you to come home and find someone in your house who doesn't speak english? And this is on an army base.

I went to BofA with a friend to close his accounts. It was amazing to see in the short time since I had been there, how the clientele had changed. Not one person waiting in line spoke English. The look on the tellers faces was that of disgust. One teller was trying to explain to a women how you can't get money out of a bank just because you have a credit card! Another women who didn't speak English was handing the teller her phone to talk to her daughter. It was a total zoo.
When we got to the window, I said " hmm guess giving illegals credit wasn't such a good idea" The tellers response was "not a good idea at all, but you didn't hear that from me"