National Fake-ID ring exploited New Mexico’s lax driver’s license rules
Shenanigans in New Mexico. Good, dense article here.
A criminal complaint was filed against a Brazilian man and a Kazakhstan woman after federal agents arrested 10 illegal immigrants in an investigation into an alleged smuggling operation involving fake documents to obtain New Mexico driver’s licenses.
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FBI spokesman Darrin Jones said investigators learned several illegal immigrants living in New Mexico were charging thousands of dollars to help other illegal immigrants travel to the state to get licenses.
Hmmm…why would illegal aliens from all over the country travel out to New Mexico for this particular service?
New Mexico, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Utah and Washington do not require drivers to prove legal status to obtain a license.
In 2003, Gov. Bill Richardson signed a measure into law that allowed foreign nationals , including those living illegally in the country , to obtain a driver’s license. His office has said one of the deciding factors in signing the bill was public safety.
Applicants for a New Mexico driver’s license who don’t have a Social Security number can present identification such as a tax identification number, a foreign passport or a Matricula Consular issued by the Mexican government.
It’s possible that these illegal applicants were just overstaying their tourist visas. There’s a quote from the director of New Mexico’s Motor Vehicle Department pointing out that “These are foreigners who got into the country using some sort of identification, and clearly were not on some kind of a watch list unless they used fake documents to get into the country.” He’s also spinning this as a case of sharp-eyed clerks catching the fraudulent documents before it happened. That’s not going to fly, because of the inconvenient fact that it’s worked before:
ICE agents believe Kulekhov and Galiullina transported at least 30 other immigrants, mostly from Brazil, from New Jersey to New Mexico to obtain New Mexico driver’s licenses, and allegedly charged each person $3,000.
But the FBI says that at least some of them were from unspecified countries “associated with special national security concerns”. Whatever that means. Probably not Brazil, right?
Meanwhile, bear in mind that both Democrats have burned their bottoms by publicly vacillating on this licenses-for-illegals scam.
McCain, too. And if you look at item number ten on this list, you’ll see McCain’s still flirting with disaster in this department today.
As a reminder, here’s why these illegal-ID rings matter.
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No shocker really. Half a dozen states have this problem
The FBI has been busy, big asz drug bust at San Diego State Univ. fox news reported.
All 11 million of them.
They’ll just wait a few days until we forget about it, then go back to business as usual.
That’s what they always do.
Well, I pay a crap load of insurance for my legal license (they don’t take UK driving record over here…but they do accept Mexican driving history haha) so I don’t think it’s a good idea to give illegals a driving license.
BUT… I can understand the broader point - if illegals COULD get licenses - it would be easier to track them and ensure they are..well..insured when it comes to road accidents etc..
Still… I have to be against it simply because if you are here illegally, you have no right to be driving around.
*30 claps for sausage.* He’s comin’ around.
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They shouldn’t be here but while they are here, why not keep the red carpet rolled up and in storage? No need to add fuel to the fire. Take away the incentives. Besides having a driver’s licenses doesn’t guarantee public safety… Guess that one is a new spin on the “it’s for the chilllllldren.” It’s now “for public safety.”
The above article is THE reason why to stay focused on this issue long term. Even if MCCain gets in, keep the pressure up regardless.
Think of it as political dollar cost averaging…even when times go bad, keeping the pressure up will have its rewards longterm.
I see sausage’s kids on are his computer!
Has McCain heard yet?
Half a dozen….? I would say almost all states have this problem. The failed attempts of stricter enforcements in some states via SAVE or anything else is only harassing legals (who have valid SSN and pay taxes) in getting a simple license. Illegals can get away by a stolen SSN.
Props to sausage.
love2rumba–exactly. You know, someone should write a book about…oh, wait…
i’m in something of agreement with sausage.
for what its worth though, demagnatize is the best way. they’ll go home on their own.
FYI, I shortened the post title, which was getting a little unwieldy. There’s a lot of angles to this story and I tried to cram them all in.
If you are here illegally, you have NO rights to any form of health care, schools, free lunches, reduced fees to universities, voting, reduced housing rent, etc. much less drivers licenses.
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Illinois had a problem with DMV employees stealing the materials to make valid licences and selling them to illegals, including trucker licences. As long as there’s money to make, even our own citizens will sell out this country.
Richardson is worthless Clinton residue.
Obama is a Racist and a Marxist punk.
The Clintons are shameless Liars and Grifters.
Lets move along here and remember that our best interests are not served. McCain has his head in Ted Kennedy’s lap and Juan Hernandez selling him Reconquista at a discount rate.
Pandering for Votes and Reverend Wright knows that America is swirling the bowl.
America is ripe for the picking as we allows Fools to lead Us!
The hoops that I had to jump through to switch my license from PA to NJ, and from my maiden name, to my married name would make your head spin. Illegals - no wait, no problem. They are just handing them out like candy.
I hear ya on NJ my mom and I went at the same time. If I wasn’t there she wouldn’t have received her license (she been a NJ driver for 40 yrs). My parents were divorced over 28 yrs ago and she didn’t have the papers anymore and could prove how she changed her name.
I was dumbfounded!
I have to buy uninsured motorist insurance becaseu of these A-Holes, can I get a tax deduction on that?
What, this is a problem?
Sin,
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5756513.html
You can drop Oregon off that list. It’s become much nicer to go to the DMV now that they actually require proof of legal residence (or citizenship) to get a licence.
Practically no lines from what I’ve heard.
Sausage is a Brit! I’m half British, maybe sausage could become half-conservative.
If I asked my British mom how much cash she had, she’s say “not a sausage”.
Old trooper!!
((Richardson is worthless Clinton residue.
Obama is a Racist and a Marxist punk.
The Clintons are shameless Liars and Grifters.))
Did you saw PRESIDUE??
Somebody reach over and wake up letget. Heck, wake me up as we are both living in a dream world.
O.T. Breaking via Drudge
London square sealed off after police gun battle: Scotland Yard
Anyone want to wager the the R.O.P is involved?
I find the article ironic. I just moved back to my home state of New Mexico after an absence of 23 years. Circumstances turned out such that I wasn’t able to provide the fourth of the newly required 4 forms of ID. It took a month to get a fourth form they would accept. They rejected my first 3 attempts. So after a month, four DMV visits, and aggregate total of nearly 7 hours in the waiting room I got my license.
We may not be able to keep out foreign nationals, thieves, rapists, murderers, and deranged terrorists, but at least the country is safe from White Anglo-Saxon Protestant honorably-discharged veterans whose ancestors came to the country nearly 200 years ago. Hey! It’s a start.
who are they voting for?
#25, I’m awake, but I can day dream what my country should be. Not gonna be, but should be.
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Hawaii requires a birth certificate, though
Ok, the Republican nominee wants open borders and I agree with with sausage. I’ll be back later. Have to check out my window for flying pigs.
Tennessee requires all kinds of stuff. Birth Certificate, valid ID, proof of residency (utility bills, etc). They wanted to make sure you were who you said you were, and that you were legal. Coming from another state, I also had my other license, which helped, but…long process, but worth it as far as keeping people who dont deserve licenses from getting them. I equated the process to going through the airport security, as far as process is concerned.
Well the name says it all NEW MEXICO! The Reconquista has begun! Can I get a Aztlan Driver license and beat the rush? Or do I apply with LA RAZA for one. I am brown on the outside. LOL
abstractmind,
I would be inclined to agree with you, were it not for the fact that they are accepting less documentation - if any from illegals at best and flawed documentation, false social security numbers, etc… at worst. Me, I produced every document that was required and then some. Still received the ‘hula hoop’ treatment.
30, you’re right. I know the process was working the day i was in there. I saw them turning anyone away, regardless, if they didnt have the exact documents, and anything that didnt look right was turned away.
Then again…thats one office out of all the rest…i have no doubt that illegals are getting permits with little or no hassle. Hasnt that been in the news lately as well?
It’s been many years since I got my first license here in Georgia, so I don’t know about any new documentation other than proof of insurance, and a notorized copy of a birth certificate, but I do know we have a whole lot of aliens driving cars in my neck of the woods. I can only hope they’re legal and insured.
Well said, old trooper.
That video above is classic stuff. Obama must have been hell on his mother, though.
“Barry, did you take the cookies?”
“Um, well, umm, while it’s true, Mother, that I have a firm belief in cookie consumption, I did not take the cookies.”
“Barry, did you eat them?”
“Well, yes, but….. I was feeling the need for nutrition, as my stomach was empty, blah blah blah …”
If my child ever evaded questions like Barry did with Wolf, he’d get himself a quick trip to the woodshed. Good to see Wolf press him for an answer.
“New Mexico, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Utah and Washington do not require drivers to prove legal status to obtain a license.”
I live in Oregon and when I renew my license here in a couple of months I have to prove my citizenship. We haven’t been told what those documents are to be yet. If one of the documents is to be the Matricula Consular Card, then I will be getting a hold of our governer.
I got married and moved to NM and they wouldn’t issue a license until I got a new Social Security card with my married name and provided proof of a physical address…which is always fun when the post office doesn’t deliver to your house as is the case with the majority of my county.
Gee… maybe I should have said I was from Mexico.
Sanddog and 30pcs…Heck, the solution is simple. Just revoke your U.S. citizenship, declare yourself an “illegal” and put your hand out. Problem solved. The DMV, the other gov’t agencies, plus local politicians will be falling all over themselves to help you out; reminding you, of course, not to forget them on election day.
I had a friend who had to leave her husband due to abuse and he destroyed all her documents. She went to the state DMV and they refused to help her. She said there was a family in there while she was there that where obviously illegal but where given licences with no problem. When she asked the representative why she told her that they got theirs cause their employer required them to have one . She said she would go and have her employer do the same and was informed unless the employer was a farmer that she would not be given a licence. She also told the lady to pull up her photo to verify who she was and the woman refused. It is funny how a honest american can not get a replacement licence but an illegal is allowed have one. And nnow Juan McCain is going to give them the country.
I spend a lot of time visiting relatives in New Mexico. The citizens of that state are in for a rude awakening, when a wave of illegals from Arizona self-deport themselves to the state. And in California, it’s business as usual for the Mexican drug cartels:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/06/state/n054501D40.DTL&tsp=1
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354314,00.html
When are the politicians in this country going to wake up?
Nevermind.
GaMidnightRider, I don’t mean to defend John McCain, but Rodham is fairly salivating at having as many Illegal Mexigrants here as possible.
I laud you in holding McCain to a standard, but Jesus Obie and Rodham welcome them here with open arms and open voting booths.
And this weasel had the stones to run for POTUS!?
He’s a traitor. Just like a seeming majority of politicians.
How can people elected to do the will of the people so blatantly disregard said will?
They do what they please and US citizens/voters be damned!
Who do you think is gonna lead the 21st century equivalent of the Boston Tea Party? This is getting old…
How does this help public safety? If they were not here illegally they would not be part of a “public safety” issue.
Libocrat i know i just keep hoping special agent Leroy Gibbs will come up behind him and slap him in the back of the head and make him wake up…
Is it dumb and dumber or loser and loser in that picture?
and how many states will use a Drivers License as proof of citizenship for voting?? What about Minnesota? Is that how Franken-stein got “elected”? This is big business and big money throughout the nation. The DMV in my little city-on the border- was busted a couple of years ago where employees were selling drivers licenses right over the counter!!! I’m sure they just moved to NM and went to work at the DMV there–they were experienced!!
Gee, do yathink this might draw attention of the MSM?
Oh..and this will put a little crimp in the implementation of the SPP, which is under the “Commerce Dept” and the NASCO highway,AKA Bush-Fox Corridor.
Who could possiblily be worse for this cabinet position? Janet Murquia from La RAZA??