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 2007â€â€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.
The FTC’s latest statistics help show why. The top five states in terms of reported identity theft in 2007 all have large immigrant populationsâ€â€the border states of Arizona, California, and Texas, as well as Florida and Nevada. People who pilfer legitimate identities in these states are much more likely than in other parts of the country to use them to gain employment unlawfullyâ€â€the most common reason that illegal aliens steal personal information. In Arizona, for instance, 36 percent of all identity theft is for employment purposes, compared with only 5 percent in Maine, a state with far fewer illegal aliens. “To many law enforcement leaders in Arizona, this suggests that Arizona’s identity-theft epidemic is directly linked to the problem of illegal immigration,†says a recent report by Identity Theft 911, an Arizona company that helps businesses and individuals protect themselves.
Part of the “Path to Citizenship” legislation that Pelosi and company are attempting to piggyback on the war funding supplemental is this:
Illegals receive immunity for any Social Security fraud if they worked under a fake or stolen Social Security number. They’d get their own SSN. They don’t have to pay any back taxes owed on illegal employment.
It comes with tax-fraud amnesty, too . . . unless you’ve held your job legally. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with this pile of crap in detail.
Really, this ties in nicely with Darleen’s post from earlier today, regarding the California court’s decision against the public’s referendum-expressed preference for a traditional definition of “marriage” within the state. These people don’t give a rat’s ass about what the public wants in this instance, either. A little felony fraud? No big deal. It’s not as though they were citizens when they committed it.
It costs $250 bucks. Not quite as hard as putting in several years of service in the US military, mind you. But there you have it. That’s what Nancy Pelosi and company think US citizenship is worth.
UPDATE: Per Malkin, the bill has been stripped due to pressure brought to bear on Reid. Here’s more about the proposed legislation, which isn’t going away until we start throwing the bums out.
It costs $250 bucks
fuck, I paid much more just in fees and taxes for my LEGAL paper work to get processed through INS
I’m surprised it’s even that much. Democrats are drooling at the prospect of millions upon millions of more Dem voters even at the expense of crimes against actual Americans.
That’s just to get the necessary votes from Republicans. Once it’s passed they’ll find a way to offer a subsidy for any applicant who might otherwise have to refrain from buying his weekly lottery tickets.
Government grants to “community groups” that will pay the fee.
Said groups will be co-located with ACORN and other vote-fraud factories.
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Back on November 15, 2006, 5:30 p.m., I was sitting in my F150 work truck, halted in the turn lane in front of my office, waiting to turn left into the lot and thus end another twelve hour, two hundred mile day.
Rush hour vehicles were literally stuffed into the traffic lanes, coming and going, zooming by on either side.
I sat there behind the wheel, my partner on the shotgun side, watching and waiting, and saw a white Toyota long bed pick up with a shell roll out of the hospital parking lot 358 feet ahead and to our left.
He headed our way. I could just make out the profile of the drivers face in the gathering twilight. He was looking right, attempting to shoe horn into the two lanes of westbound traffic that necked down to one lane about where we were… where the turn lane ended.
He accelerated. Traffic solid on my right. Oncoming two lanes of traffic bumper to bumper, merging to one lane just behind us. Three hundred feet. Two hundred.
“Josh, he’s not going to stop. Lean back.”, I say, and lay on the horn while flicking my high beams off and on. His head moves behind the windshield. Still accelerating. Damn reaction times…
One hundred feet. He yaws dangerously close to oncoming traffic. Still coming. I look right one last time, still no joy on avoiding into the traffic lane; rush hour. I take my foot off the brake while farmer turning to the right stop, using the flat of my hand to whip the wheel over. This puts my truck at an angle to the oncoming Toyota, but I’m still in my lane. Fifty feet, brakes squealing finally, he’s moved to the side of the turn lane opposite the one I have adopted, and a little past the line, and the two busy lanes of traffic are compressing; I see a pair of headlights bounce as a car kisses the curb.
Contact. Glass, metal, no airbag. The wheel whips beneath my flattened hand but my foot stays on the brake and we don’t leave the lane. Torn tendons. The Toy’s driver side front quarter panel is almost ripped completely off, but he drives it home.
I saw the accident coming but there was nowhere to go, and no action to take. Just a brief interval to get ready for the shock.
This has been my political life for the last eighteen months. Bloody Hell, as the Brits say.
I wish I had an airbag for shitty governance but that is not the case.
I wonder if the government has a identity theft breakdown by surname ethnicity. With a strange dutch surname, I know I have little to worry about, but if your name is Garcia or Rodriguez, you better sign up LifeLock fast.
Racist bastards
LifeLock?
Cringely had an interesting take on this.
His bottom line: your mobils phone number is a more accurate identifier than your social security number.
I always suspected LifeLock was just turning around and selling identities, anyway.
#11: LOL.
Well. Amnesty should mean amnesty if they’re gonna decide to grant a bunch of amnesty.
Wait, you mean I can’t get amnesty for my taxes paid? Pero hablo espanol.
“That’s just to get the necessary votes from Republicans. Once it’s passed they’ll find a way to offer a subsidy for any applicant who might otherwise have to refrain from buying his weekly lottery tickets.”
No shit. So basically, we shouldn’t even speak up about fines or back taxes, since we’ll be the ones paying extra money into the government’s coffers to subsidize it.
Politics:
Def.
Poly: Many.
Tics: Vicious, bloodsucking insects.
It’s kind of not right to conflate people who are just making up a SSN so they can fill out their paperwork at their shitty jobs that they are actually going to work at with people who are trying to steal shit from Circuit City. This happened to me one year cause some guy in Virginia that did something involving fences had paid into my account but the IRS straightened it right out.
Agreed.
Yah, but how do you draw the line between the two? And once Jose has your SSN to get his shitty job, what if he gets a credit card with your SSN (after all, he knows it’s legit)?
The intent is the same in both cases — to commit fraud.
I agree with happyfeet, and I don’t see any problem separating the two.
Yep, yep, an yep, I agree.
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