Thread: Legal Immigrants Get Passports to Mexico

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Advocacy group cuts months of waiting to one day
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Legal Immigrants Get Passports
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LEXINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) – Officials from Mexico's Consulate office in Raleigh were in Lexington Saturday to help legal Mexican immigrants get passports. The one-stop shopping approach allowed hundreds of people the chance to get the proper paperwork in a matter of hours, compared to months. Roxanna Haynes reports the event was organized by the Latino Roundtable advocacy group.


Passports for Legal Immigrants Available Saturday
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In May, a South Carolina-based company sold what advocates called overpriced ID cards at a flea market in Thomasville.
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LEXINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) – Hispanic community advocates want to make it quick and easy for legal Mexican immigrants in Davidson County to get proper identification.

Officials from the Mexico consulate's North Carolina offices will be in Lexington on Saturday at Grace Episcopal Church (419 South Main Street) to provide properly documented immigrants with passports.

More than 400 legal immigrants have signed up to meet with consulate officials. There is also a waiting list of 300.

People who bring proper identification and legal documents will be able to pay for and receive passports in one day. The process easily takes up to a year to complete in Raleigh.

"Anytime we have an opportunity to get a documentation of who's in our country and do it right, l think it's a great opportunity," said Brian Shipwash, Davidson County Clerk of Courts.

Saturday's event was organized after a South Carolina-based company sold what advocates called overpriced ID cards in at a flea market in Thomasville May 18.

Shipwash strongly spoke out against the ID sales then and lent his support to the passport drive by inviting the Mexico consulate official to Davidson County.
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Legal Mexican residents? Proper I.D. to enter Mexico? Are they allowed back into the U.S.A.with this I.D.? Since this I.D.is from a Mexican Consulate office.

Originally Posted by mydodgers

Legal Mexican residents? Proper I.D. to enter Mexico? Are they allowed back into the U.S.A.with this I.D.? Since this I.D.is from a Mexican Consulate office.

No they cannot use their Mexican ID to get back into the USA, they need their green card for that.

Officials from the Mexico consulate's North Carolina offices will be in Lexington on Saturday at Grace Episcopal Church (419 South Main Street) to provide properly documented immigrants with passports.

More than 400 legal immigrants have signed up to meet with consulate officials. There is also a waiting list of 300.

If they are "legal" then they should already have a mexican passport. Otherwise, how else did they get here LEGALLY?

Lets be honest about what's going on here!! You do not need a mexican passport to travel to mexico. The mexican consulate is issuing passports to illegal invaders, who in turn use those mexican passports as a form of identification in this country. They can also board domestic, commerical flights with those passports, as airlines do not check to see if a mexican passport containes a valid visa stamp.


This is nothing more than mexico aiding and abetting its illegal invaders in this country while our elected officials sit on their collective @$$ and do nothing!!!

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Lets be honest about what's going on here!! You do not need a mexican passport to travel to mexico. The mexican consulate is issuing passports to illegal invaders, who in turn use those mexican passports as a form of identification in this country. They can also board domestic, commerical flights with those passports, as airlines do not check to see if a mexican passport containes a valid visa stamp.


This is nothing more than mexico aiding and abetting its illegal invaders in this country while our elected officials sit on their collective @$$ and do nothing!!!

EXACTLY!

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Lets be honest about what's going on here!! You do not need a mexican passport to travel to mexico. The mexican consulate is issuing passports to illegal invaders, who in turn use those mexican passports as a form of identification in this country. They can also board domestic, commerical flights with those passports, as airlines do not check to see if a mexican passport containes a valid visa stamp.


This is nothing more than mexico aiding and abetting its illegal invaders in this country while our elected officials sit on their collective @$$ and do nothing!!!

THat's not true about the visa stamp in the passport. I used to work for a hiring agency and we had to have them fill out I-9s. I used to tell the ones that weren't citizens to bring in eveyrthing they has in terms of ID because it was mess of documents and not all them were up to date.

A LOT didn't have stamps in their passports. It didn't mean we couldn't legally hire them, it just meant the passport was newer than their greencard. We have a few that use their passport as ID. The muslim and asian women have husbands that won't let them drive. I'd be careful, I've known people in the past that were let go because of "discrimation" problems in the workplace. It's PC BS but it's a reallity in today's workplace. If you think you work with illegals and complain, you better know what you're talking about otherwise, your job could be on the line.

Soon, Jan. 1, 2009 I think, American Citizens will need a Passport or Passport Card to re-enter the U.S. from Canada or Mexico.

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ALL PERSONS traveling by air outside of the United States are required to present a passport or other valid travel document to enter or re-enter the United States.
LAND AND SEA TRAVEL
The following summarizes information available on the Department of Homeland Security’s website.

CURRENTLY:
U.S. citizens need to present either (a) a passport, passport card (scheduled to be in full production beginning in July 200, or WHTI-compliant document; or (b) a government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license, along with proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate.

LATER:
On June 1, 2009, the U.S. government will implement the full requirements of the land and sea phase of WHTI. The proposed rules require most U.S. citizens entering the United States at sea or land ports of entry to have a passport, passport card, or WHTI-compliant document.
Note: The passport requirement does NOT apply to U.S. citizens traveling to or returning directly from a U.S. territory.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html

Background: U.S. Land Border Crossing Updated Procedures
Beginning January 31, 2008 the Department of Homeland Security is:

Ending oral declarations at the border, except in extraordinary situations
Accepting a list of about two dozen types of documents at the border instead of the over 8,000 documents currently being accepted


On December 30, 2007, a man by the name of Coronado Paez tried to enter the United States. He presented a State of California identification card and orally claimed to be a U.S. citizen. Officers suspected Garcia was not the rightful holder of the identification card and referred him for a more in-depth inspection. A routine data query and fingerprint check revealed that the man was actually Mexican-born Andres Garcia-Landeros and was wanted for homicide in California. Garcia was transported to the custody of the San Diego Sheriff's Department.

Ending Oral Declarations of Citizenship at Land Border Ports of Entry
U.S. Customs and Border Protection must end the practice of allowing certain travelers to rely on oral declarations alone when entering the country. CBP must make it difficult each and every time for those who want to illegally enter the United States, by falsely claiming to be a U. S. or Canadian citizen when, in fact, they are not.

There were 31,060 oral false claims of United States citizenship at U.S. land border ports of entry for fiscal years 2005–2007

From October–December 2007 alone, CBP reported 1,517 cases of individuals trying to enter the U.S. by falsely claiming to be U.S. citizens.

The Government Accountability Office reported inspectors at land border ports intercepted nearly 15,000 people in 2002 who falsely claimed to be U.S. citizens in order to gain illegal entry, suggesting an unknown number of travelers successfully entered the United States this way.

New Document Procedures
New document procedures identify about two dozen types of documents that travelers may use to prove citizenship and identity while at the same time enabling CBP to quickly and confidently identify all travelers attempting entry to the United States.

New document procedures eliminate the use of insecure, paper identity documents such as social security cards, voter registration cards, certain health cards, and baptismal documents, as the requirement now calls for all identification documents to include a photo, name, and date of birth.

Reducing the Types of Acceptable Documents for Entering the United States
It is critical that all individuals seeking to enter the United States become acclimated to presenting documents to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers. Single documents proving both identity and citizenship, which are acceptable on January 31, 2008, will also likely be acceptable when the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative is implemented.

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection faces a much greater challenge to identify and screen individuals at land ports of entry, in part because of the lack of advance traveler information and the high volume of traffic at many locations. Unlike travelers who enter the country at airports, travelers entering through land ports of entry can arrive at virtually any time and may present thousands of different forms of documentation, ranging from oral declarations of U.S. or Canadian citizenship, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, passports, visas, permanent resident cards, or U.S. military identity cards."
from Border Security Report, November 2007
Government Accountability Office

Single Document Option Proving Identity and Citizenship
A single document option exists for U. S. and Canadian citizens to prove both identity and citizenship – a single-document option is encouraged now and in the future for frequent land border crossers to expedite processing.

Two Document Option
Those travelers who do not have one of the single-document options must present both an identification document and a citizenship document. This dual document presentation gives U.S. Customs and Border Protection greater confidence in the traveler’s claim to identity and citizenship.

http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/programs/g ... 16403.shtm

Originally Posted by bettsie

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Lets be honest about what's going on here!! You do not need a mexican passport to travel to mexico. The mexican consulate is issuing passports to illegal invaders, who in turn use those mexican passports as a form of identification in this country. They can also board domestic, commerical flights with those passports, as airlines do not check to see if a mexican passport containes a valid visa stamp.


This is nothing more than mexico aiding and abetting its illegal invaders in this country while our elected officials sit on their collective @$$ and do nothing!!!

THat's not true about the visa stamp in the passport. I used to work for a hiring agency and we had to have them fill out I-9s. I used to tell the ones that weren't citizens to bring in eveyrthing they has in terms of ID because it was mess of documents and not all them were up to date.

A LOT didn't have stamps in their passports. It didn't mean we couldn't legally hire them, it just meant the passport was newer than their greencard. We have a few that use their passport as ID. The muslim and asian women have husbands that won't let them drive. I'd be careful, I've known people in the past that were let go because of "discrimation" problems in the workplace. It's PC BS but it's a reallity in today's workplace. If you think you work with illegals and complain, you better know what you're talking about otherwise, your job could be on the line.

Back up bettsie! In order for a mexican citizen to travel LEGALLY in this country, they MUST have a valid visa! A greencard indicates your in this country LEGALLY! Mexicans who are traveling LEGALLY in this country are not seeking work and would not have a greencard.

So tell me again..how am I wrong when I state that commercial airlines do not check for a valid visa in order for a person flying domestically on a mexican passort. Or, use that mexican passport as identification? A person wouldn't need to rely on a mexican passort as a form of identification if they had a greencard. Oh...people with greendcards also generally have a social security number, another form of identification that illegals do not have (atleast not a valid one).

In other words, people who are in this country legally, generally have other documents to establish that fact.