Illegal Aliens In Ohio Setting Up Fake Businesses To Get Car Tags [video]

11:44 AM 11/19/2014CHUCK ROSS
Reporter

Illegal aliens in Ohio are fraudulently setting up fake businesses in order to obtain car tags and license plates, Columbus, Ohio’s WSYX reports.

By setting up the fake companies, the illegal aliens are taking advantage of a loophole in Ohio law that has different documentation requirements for registering personal vehicles and commercial vehicles.

By applying for a commercial vehicle registration under a business name, illegal aliens can provide any type of identification. That is much easier than registering a personal vehicle, which requires a driver’s license, state-issued ID, or a Social Security card.

“Is this your vehicle?” WSYX’s Tom Sussi asked a Mexican national through a translator during his investigation.

“Yes,” the man said, admitting that he does not own a business, though his car is registered under a company called DNR Services.
“What is DNR Services?” Sussi asked.

“It’s a company that someone invents,” the man responded. “It’s not really anything.”

WSYX began its inquiry after discovering that a Mexican national named Arnulfuo Bernardo Narciso had operated the fake business scheme for 13 years, using only a voter registration card from Mexico. Rather than face charges for the offense, Narciso was voluntarily deported for the offense. He had previously been deported in 2007.

One concern, Sussi points out, is that illegal aliens with commercial registrations are driving without a license and, in most cases, without insurance.

Ohio has seen vehicle registration scams before.

In 2009, a massive scheme was exposed involving so-called “runners” who, for a fee, would use their Social Security numbers to register vehicles on behalf of illegal aliens.

According to an article in the Columbus Dispatch that year, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles sent out more than 47,000 letters requiring drivers to register their vehicles under a Social Security number.

The Dispatch reported that former Public Safety Director Henry Guzman delayed changing the vehicle registration system after meeting with Latino business leaders on July 31, 2008. According to the Dispatch, some “runners” were at that meeting, though Guzman said he was unaware.

Latino business leaders lobbied against the crackdown, saying that it would force illegal aliens to leave the state in droves because they would not be able to drive to work.

Fewer than 6 percent of people who received a letter from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles showed up to register their cars, the Dispatch reported at the time.

Ohio state representative Matt Lynch told WSYX that he is pressing for an investigation into the matter.


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