Thread: CA-Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals

Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals
By: Sara A. Carter

June 3, 2010


The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.

"Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it's done," he said. "But on Catalina it will do more damage. It's a small island but there's evidence it's being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California."

Rohrabacher added, "If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it."

Mexican officials with the consular office in Los Angeles could not be reached immediately for comment. The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.

Officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said their agency was asked by Mexican officials not to enforce U.S. immigration laws on the island while the cards were being issued.

"It amazes me every time that the Mexican government has the gall to tell us what to do," said an ICE official, who asked not to be named. "More surprisingly is how many times we stand by and let them. This is just an example of one of hundreds of requests we've had to deal with."

In April, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies seized a boat carrying large quantities of marijuana and detained three Mexican nationals who said they were being smuggled into the United States.

The island has a sizable Mexican migrant population. Most are undocumented low-income workers.


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ICE neeeds to raid that island and put a new meaning to the wetback as they will try to swim away.

Mexico is now issuing cards to give illegal aliens legal status in the United States so they can open bank accounts? I thought all these illegal aliens were poor starving immigrants with no money?

Quicksand. They never see it.

Wake Up, People. It's time to change our government, not our nation. It's time to tell Mexico, stay out of our country and keep your people out of our country, UNLESS the US has given them prior permission to enter the United States and they don't stay in the US beyond the time period of their approval from the United States.

Americans! You better use the 2010 elections to get these pro-illegal alien Congresscritters out of the US Congress while we still have a US Congress. Every Congresscritter who stood and clapped after Calderon attacked the AZ immigration law in the US Congress needs the boot in the butt to the curb on November 2, 2010.

And another piece of advice: stop electing first generation citizen anchor babies to any political post at any level. They aren't assimilated. They don't get it. Their loyalty is not here, it's back there where their parents came from. So, just stop it.

Research their background, and if they're anchor babies, do not elect them to political office. Period. If they're already in a post, vote them out.

Megyn Kelly talked about this earlier on Fox and said that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was going to Catalina to get pictures of what was going on

Gotta Love Sara Carter and her reporting.
she broke the Ramos and Compean case to America on John and Ken's show out of LA back in 05

This confuses the heck out of me. Why are we, and our elected representatives, standing for this?

In 2004 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI officials called the card an unreliable form of identification. The agency said that Mexico lacks a centralized database for them, which could lead to forgery, duplication, and other forms of abuse.

The island has a sizable Mexican migrant population. Most are undocumented low-income workers.

The matricular consular identification card, is issued by the Mexican government to Mexican nationals residing outside the country, regardless of immigration status. The purpose is to provide identification for opening bank accounts and obtaining other services. But the cards are usually used to skirt U.S. immigration laws, since Mexicans in the country legally have documents proving that status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

Aiding and abetting illegal immigration is against the law! Mexico couldn't issue these cards without authorization from this country. What agreement, specific person, or agency is allowing this to happen? Is it the U.S. Department of State?

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