ID theft should be a federal felony offense.
I agree.
Agreed. To include making, selling, or buying fake ID, taking bribes to issue false ID, and renting out or renting ID. Prison terms of years, not months.
And anyone making, selling, or renting false ID ought to be considered an accessory to any crimes committed using that ID. If someone buys a fake driver's license and uses it to drive to a bank robbery, the seller of the license should be guilty of the robbery.
“ID theft should be a federal felony offense.”
Using a false SS# is ALREADY a federal felony — a new felony every time it is used:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1849240/posts
Except (occasionally) for those who sell or manufacture illegal SS cards, Illegal infiltrators who blatantly commit dozens of these (and other) Federal FELONIES are not prosecuted. Neither are the people who employ them.
Until that preposterous reality is fully addressed, AND corrected, no amnesty, increased border patrol, or thousand mile fence will ever be effective.
DG