Illegal immigration and identity theft
Sphere: Related ContentA couple of years ago I watched a report on Univision or Telemundo (I forget which at this point) where the reporter interviewed a woman, an illegal alien from a Central American country.The woman, who apparently was not employed, lived in a grand style. She was youngish (late twenties - early thirties?) and good looking, nicely dressed.Her apartment looked like something out of the Pottery Barn catalogue. When asked about how did she earn the money for living in such style, she actually stated that she had done it by charging it to stolen credit cards. She felt that she was owned that lifestyle and had every right to take was she felt was her due.
By the time the report was over I was furious. There had to be hundreds like her. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time or resources to investigate.
Steven Malanga, however, has been looking into the issue and has an excellent article at City Journal, Illegal in More Ways than One
Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration (emphasis added):
As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007- one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver’s licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. The immigrants’ identity theft has become so pervasive that the need to combat it is “a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration,” according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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May 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am
“Native” - always like that one.
Guess they’ve been too busy waving Mexican flags and targeting Blacks for drive-bys to be bothered with learning about the Bering Land Bridge.
“Native”.
- MuscleDaddy
May 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Ignorant assholes. They are just as european as I am. Go back to france and spain dumbasses. Funny how they never mention just how badly the “natives” of mexico/south/central America are treated in their homelands. They aren’t even “second” class citizens. The spanish arrogance is alive and well in mexico and further south. All the illegals and supporters of illegals need get the fuck out of America and take their offspring with them. Come in legally and its all good. Cross the border/violate your visa, fuck off.