Mexican Matricula Consular ID?poses danger to U.S.

Toby · #1 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 01:14 AM

Quote:

"Federal officials have arrested alien smugglers who have had as many as seven different Matricula Consular cards in their possession. ... These criminal threats are significant, but it is the terrorist threat presented by the Matricula Consular that is most worrisome."

- Testimony of Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, June 26, 2003

"I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico" - Mexican president Felipe Caldron in a September 2, 2007 address to the Mexican nation.

If you drive by the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta on any given day, it is likely that you could view a line of illegal aliens waiting outside for their turn to buy an ID card called a "Matricula Consular."

Few readers have heard about the Mexican photo ID. Even fewer know that the Mexican government also has permanent mobile consulates that travel the Southeast - and the nation - dispensing the driver's license-sized ID cards. Or that the only people who are in need of one of these little "stealth amnesty" cards are illegal aliens.

Anyone who has entered the nation lawfully will have easy access to secure and verifiable U.S. issued ID - like a passport and a valid visa.

The Mexican government fearlessly admits the Matricula Consular ID is issued regardless of immigration status. The respected Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies reports that the objective of the Mexican government with the matriculas "is to achieve quasi-legal status for Mexican illegals in the United States without waiting for action from Washington" and is "a direct challenge to U.S. sovereignty."

FBI Special Agent McGraw also testified to the Congressional Committee that "the Department of Justice and FBI have concluded the Matricula Consular is not a reliable form of identification, due to the non-existence of any means of verifying the true identity of the card holder."

"At least one individual of Middle Eastern descent has also been arrested in possession of the Matricula Consular card," McGraw said.

Alarmingly, Mexican authorities have reported that it issued 963,782 cards in 2004, 830,987 in 2005 and 929,702 in 2006. American law enforcement reports that it is not unusual to arrest someone with multiple matriculas.

About here, the reader may be assuming that with such damning and undeniable evidence, that no matter how many matriculas have been issued that no one in their right mind would accept the ID as valid ID ... right?

Wrong. A Matricula Consular can be used to board an airliner in 21st century America.

Marietta Daily Journal - D.A. King: Mexican Matricula Consular ID?poses danger to U.S.