Sunday, February 27, 2011

Time to protect American children from illegal alien identity theft

Illegal alien driven, employment-related identity theft is destroying the good names and futures of literally millions of innocent American children, while current federal identity theft law and the IRS and Social Security Administration sit on the sidelines as the number of victims continues to grow.

According to the Social Security Administration, an estimated 75 percent of illegal aliens use fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers to pay payroll taxes. In Utah, employment related identity theft accounts for 16 percent of all reported identity theft according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Based on investigations conducted by Workforce Services and the Utah Attorney General's office, it is estimated that 50,000 Utah children have their identities being used primarily by illegal aliens to get jobs. In 2006, 1,626 employers were found to be paying wages to the Social Security numbers of Utah children under age 13. Identity Theft 911 estimates that over one million Arizona children have had their identities stolen...

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Anti-matricula bill clears House panel

DURHAM -- A bill that would stop police in Durham and other communities from recognizing identification cards like the Mexican matricula consular cleared its first hurdle in the General Assembly on Thursday.

The N.C. House's Government Committee endorsed the bill by a 16-10 vote, sending it on to the chamber's Judiciary Committee for additional review, City Councilman Mike Woodard said.

Woodard, who attended the morning hearing at the request of El Centro Hispano organizer Ronald Garcia-Fogarty, said the vote followed party lines.

He reported to his City Council colleagues Thursday afternoon that Durham legislators are pessimistic about the chances of stopping the bill.

"I got pretty grim predictions from [Paul] Luebke and [Mickey] Michaux," Woodard said, naming the Democrats who head Durham's House delegation.

Thursday's committee vote came 22 days after the chamber's lone independent joined an otherwise GOP-only group of House members in introducing the bill.

It would allow police, judges, magistrates and other officials in the criminal-justice system to accept as confirmation of a person's identity only a state driver's license, a state ID card, a passport or official U.S. immigration papers...

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Traffic stop prompts call to immigration authorities: Brecksville Police Blotter
(Brecksville, Ohio - Frebruary 24, 2011)

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS, I-77: A pair of Hispanic males were detained by Brecksville police following a routine traffic stop on Interstate 77 Feb. 16.

The pair were riding in a blue Ford pickup truck that lacked a properly visible rear license plate. The driver, in broken English, explained that he bought the truck in Nevada. He provided documentation of the purchase and the salvage title. The tag however, was only good to transport the truck from Nevada to Illinois.

The man’s license indicated that he was 31-year-old resident of Washington. The passenger had a library card but gave a birth date indicating that he was 29.

When questioned about his easterly detour from Illinois, the driver said he owned a painting company and was picking up some tools from an Independence hotel and was transferring them to a job in Michigan.

He told officers that there was nothing illegal in the truck and consented to a search. Officers found several forms of identification with photos of both the driver and passenger but with different Social Security numbers and from different states.

The men were taken to the station until their proper identification could be determined. Police spoke with a Cleveland Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who spoke with the men. She determined that the men were undocumented aliens and in the country illegally. She requested that they be held pending further investigation and arranged to transport them Feb. 17...

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ICE Cracks False Document Ring Active in 11 States

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it has unraveled a violent enterprise that delivered false documents to unauthorized immigrants in 11 states.

An indictment released Thursday by the U.S. attorney's office in Richmond names 22 defendants in the alleged enterprise. The charges include racketeering, money laundering, kidnapping and firearms counts...

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Fake ID lab busted

Fake driver’s licenses and Social Security cards were just two of the products that could be bought at a complex raided by a multi-agency force following a four-month investigation.

The three-house complex on 29th St. Ct. NE off Springs Road also had prostitutes and drugs available, according to complaints.

Five Mexican-born suspects were arrested at the complex Friday during a multi-agency bust spearheaded by the Department of Motor Vehicles with assistance from the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, Immigration Customs Enforcement and Catawba County’s Special Tactics and Response Team.

“Everybody we arrested will be deported following their convictions,” said District Supervisor Rena Rikard of the Department of Motor Vehicles...

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How one illegal immigrant gamed the criminal justice system

“Manhunt!” With that bold headline, the Sunday Advance reported Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s determination to capture this county’s Top 10 fugitives.

The Advance is assisting Donovan’s initiative by displaying these individuals’ faces on the newspaper’s CRIME SCENE Web page, silive.com/crime.

Two especially galling aspects underlie this story. First is the indefensible decision by a Criminal Court judge that allowed Linares Hugo Lopez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who is number one on the list, to walk away from accusations that he horribly abused his 18-month-old son.

Second is the ease with which far too many illegal immigrants avoid answering for even the most violent crimes committed by them...

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Immigration raid forces 200 layoffs at Lone Star Bakery

CHINA GROVE, Texas - A food manufacturing plant was forced to lay off around 200 workers after a "silent raid" found nearly half of its employees were undocumented. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a paper audit on the China Grove plant, Lone Star Bakery. Company officials say the illegal workers, some who had worked there for 15 years, had provided social security numbers that didn't match up with their names...

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