[alloysteel]

Better idea - thousands of persons with perfectly legal Social Security numbers should apply to Bank of America, but refuse to give the credit card people their number.

Once this principle is established, Bank of America cannot legitimately ask ANYBODY for an SS number.

[Aeronaut]

I wish I had a BOA credit card so I could cancel it.

[VOA]

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[VOA]

The real punchline from the article:

http://www.bankofamericaboycott.com.

http://www.embargowellsfargo.com

[Caipirabob]

I think someone pointed out before that the real difference with this card is that they simply do not require your social security number. While most of us including myself have been lulled into using it as personal identification ("Your papers, please, Herr Caipira!") This program does not, and it is actually more of a valid program since SS numbers were initially designed to track earnings and such.

The very nature of the creation of the SS numbers in 1935 was to track people's earning of gubbamint cheese in work programs at the end of the depression era.

Of course socialsts have jumped all over it as the driving factor in tracking peasants and their actions.

The problem that I do see with the card is that they will literally never make any money unless they pin some sort of liability to the use of the card. A sponser, perhaps or someone they can actually track.

BOA will probably make up for by "accidentally" overcharging every one of their legitamate bank accounts and hope no one notices. From what I hear from complaints, that's a normal part of their business model.

[Bernard]

The only problem with a bank not hsving an SSN tied to an account is that there is no way for the bank to properly report and taxable or tax-deduction activity to the IRS. There should be some kind of penalty tied to that.

[gotribe]

I can't believe this. People are blaming a bank for going after money? That's capitalism folks, live with it! Wanna fix the immigration problem, then fix it. Stop bashing a bank for doing its job.

[vigilante2]

I wonder if I can change my citizenship status to illegal immigrant

[Kimberly GG]

Good that this is being brought to light. However, many fail to realize that there are many many banks commiting INS violations that may be subject to RICO racqueteering charges, including Wells Fargo and our very own Federal Reserve Bank.

If the Federal Reserve continues to get away with this, banks througout the country will follow suit.

[fivecatsandadog]

Eager to find new customers among the nation's burgeoning ranks of Hispanic immigrants, U.S. banks are increasingly offering checking accounts, money transfer services and mortgages that don't require a Social Security number. Other issuers offer credit cards, but Bank of America is the first major credit card company to step into the arena.

Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S..

Providing public service to illegal immigrants is/will be a huge opportunity for some major businesses as the immigration issue becomes more politically heated. And with more services/support provided to illegals comes more $$$ in the bank. Then it will be politically accepted and become a non-issue.

Money talks. We're doomed.

[pleikumud]

Foreigners have deposited billions of dollars in the US banking system, and they also borrow billions from US banks. None of them have Social Security numbers, since they are not American citizens. Therefore, Bank of America is just doing more business with foreigners, in order to make more profits (it's a free market, thankfully).

It isn't the bank's job to determine whether it's customers are illegal aliens, have commited adultery, have shoplifted, or have multiple speeding tickets.

[Graymatter]

I poked around on their website, and according to the credit application, the government requires them to get your ssn. You can't complete an online credit app without giving it.
So there must be more to this story than we're getting. At least, you can't do it online.

[guitarchas]

You guys don't get it. The large corporations have already decided that the North American Union is a reality. Goodbye borders, goodbye national identity, hello Pedro.

[S.Elaine]

In the mean time those same illegal immigrants that are getting $5000 credit cards are still going to the hospitals and getting medical care and not paying one dime for it.

[Buffettfan]

I have just signed the petition. I will be calling them tomorrow. When I go to my local branch, I am tired of standing behind an illegal alien (opening a new account) who has no damn business even being in this country. I have 8 accounts at BOA (business and personal) and I put ALOT of money into this bank. I had a runin with the local manager about 3 months ago. I ended up storming out of the bank and on my way out I told here to "hire some damn Americans in here". Most of the tellers were foreigners. I been with BOA for 10 years now but I have had enough of BOA.

[ContraryMary]

Fine with me. Let the bank try it. And then when they end up losing incredible amounts of money because of the high number of credit risks who'll skip out of their obligations the bank will have learned a lesson.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I hear that some people are moving their accounts from this bank.

[Alia]

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