Dave Gibson | Immigration Reform Examiner
10/17/2013

Thousands of illegal aliens will receive IDs in North Carolina this weekend

On Saturday, a team of Mexican officials will head to the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher, to hand out Matricula Consular cards as well as passports to thousands of Mexican nationals.

The illegal alien advocacy group known as El Centro of Henderson County is sponsoring the event, along with the Mexican Consulate office in Raleigh.

Carolina McCready, Director of El Centro, told The Mountain Xpress:
Without the proper identification, people who have immigrated to this country from Mexico cannot even get a library card, let alone utilities or a bank account. We feel very honored that the Consulate has chosen to visit Henderson County."

El Centro says they are expecting between 1,000 and 1,500 Mexican nationals to attend the event.

One reason for the distribution of the Matricula Consular cards is to help those living in this country illegally obtain bank accounts, credit cards and even loans.

On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed the USA Patriot Act. However, this writer would wager to say that almost no one knows that contained in section 326(b) of the USA Patriot Act is a provision that allows US banks to accept Mexican Matricula Consular cards as a valid form of ID for opening bank accounts.

It should be noted that while our President and Congress ordered American banks to recognize these Mexican-issued cards, there is not one Mexican bank which accepts their own government’s Matricula Consular card as a valid form of identification, because the bearer’s identity is basically untraceable.

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