Posted on 10/10/2007 8:44:45 PM PDT by biscuit jane
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon driver’s license workers have begun reporting applicants with suspicious documents to the police, rather than just turning them away.
The intent is to deter people looking for fake identification papers from shopping among driver’s license offices in search of a lax employee.
The new policy has resulted in some arrests, convictions and dropped charges...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsreview.info ...
Enforcing the law? How novel!
“Dubious documents include Social Security cards,!bank statements!, consulate cards and out-of-state driver’s licenses, as well as identification from Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica and other countries.
“Perhaps a large portion of people that are offending with bogus documents happen to be Latinos,” said Angel Lopez, attorney ...“But it’s equally plausible that Latinos are being ferreted out in the first place because clerks do not understand the validity of documents that seem strange and foreign.”
David Simon, acting consul of the Mexican Consulate in Portland, said the consulate wants the state agency to rely on it to validate certain forms of identification before calling police... “
Okay so mexican aliens are trying to pass off fraudulent ID,
including BANK STATEMENTS in order to get a very valuable legitimate form of ID, and the Mexican Consulate wants to dictate to us which documents WE should accept ???
WTF ! If a person trys to use a bank statement as ID obviously something is very wrong. ANy legit person would have a passport or other normal form of ID if they are legal.
“The new policy has resulted in some arrests, convictions and dropped charges...”
Lemee guess who had the charges droopped...
‘sides, how does one get a bank statement if they don’t have
ID in the first place ??
Oh... right... steal it from my mail box... duh !
“clerks do not understand the validity of documents that seem strange and foreign.”
Gosh could it be that the “strange and foreign” documents just happen to be FRAUDULENT?
Welcome to DMV corruption in Rhode Island:
From The Providence (R.I.) Journal at Proj.com:
http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo-20071010-DMV.159e804cc.html
It is illegal to use SSN and TIN for identification, but for the purpose of obtaining a Driver’s License it is probably the best suited. Even though SSN and TIN’s can be purchased off the black market.
“ANy legit person would have a passport or other normal form of ID if they are legal.”
Exactly.
ping
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