North Carolina House votes to ban Mexico’s Matricula Consular card

March 29th, 2011 10:13 pm ET

Dave Gibson

On Tuesday, by a vote of 64-53, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed HB33 which bans the use of the Matricula Consular card, issued by the government of Mexico as an acceptable form of identification.

HB33 will mean that the cards which are not verifiable and easily faked, will no longer be accepted by any state agency, including police and schools.

The bill which was co-sponsored by Rep. Mike Hager (R-Rutherford) and Rep. George Cleveland (R-Onslow) passed along party lines, with all but one Democrat voting against it.

Rep. Cleveland argued: “The Matricula Consular is in reality not worth the paper or plastic it’s made out of,â€