Thread: IDs for (illegal) aliens draw fire (Arkansas)

IDs for aliens draw fire
BY JOHN KRUPA

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/210936/


Many Arkansas police departments, banks and businesses are accepting the membership card of a nonprofit organization that works with Hispanic immigrants as a form of valid identification.

Founders of the organization say the card is helping 3, 000 Arkansas immigrants gain access to important services.

Critics, however, say illegal aliens are the only immigrants benefiting from the card. They are buying the card in droves, some say, not knowing that it carries no more legal standing than a membership card at their local video store.

Officials with the Arkansas attorney general’s office are investigating the Latin Community Organization of Malvern, the nonprofit that issues the cards.

“Some [illegal aliens ] think it’s an official, governmentsponsored card,â€

What on earth is happening to my country, this is 3rd world anarchy. Where are those IDs for non-Hispanics, what the Hades is going on? We have completely lost our own senses and we are not at the helm. Wake up America!

The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services created the network after receiving an $ 850, 000 grant from the U. S. Department of Labor.

Mike Kennedy, the Workforce Services Department official who overseas the network, said the money paid for launching workforce centers in Little Rock, Rogers, Russellville and Malvern.

The network primarily acts as a referral service for immigrants.

More Fed money for illegals? Why doesn't the Fed help out citizens?

This is disgusting.

Eddie Garcia, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper Amigo News in Hope, said the Latin Community Organization is intentionally trying to mislead illegal aliens into thinking the cards are official ID.

That’s why the group designed the cards to look like drivers licenses, Garcia said, and why they feature endorsements from police departments on the back.

The group’s motive is not just to help illegal aliens gain access to services, Garcia said, but also to generate revenue and buttress membership.

Finally! Someone has admitted the reason behind these cards! ONLY illegal aliens need these cards! Legal immigrants have no use for them.

More proof that the US Department of Labor is assisting illegal immigrants with American Taxpayer money.
Don't you think the Dept would require verification of legal status before giving out all this money????

I bet there are dozens of programs like this, costing taxpayers millions, all to help "immigrants" find and take American jobs.

To express thanks and support to Eddie Garcia, editor of "Amigo" in Hope, for speaking out against these illegal cards, contact him at:

AMIGO Spanish Newspaper
Eddie Garcia, Editor
Phone: 870-722-6081
Fax: 870-722-5534
Email: editor@amigonews.com

418 N. Main St.
P.O. Box 971
Hope, ARK 71802-0971