Fifth-Third Bank Allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS to Bank...

Fifth-Third Website ^ | 04-08-02 | GRRRRR

[GRRRRR]

OK Freeples, time to warm up the Freep Line...the website lists Roberta R. Jennings – 513.579.4153 as the MEDIA CONTACT. Sorry, but couldn't find an email or fax.

This stinks! First Motor voter and now this...why do we put up with this crap?

GRRRRRRollin

[Brownie74]

Ping!!

[Brownie74]

Ping!!

[lavaroise]

Time to get your 5/3rd bank funds out. Who in the world would trust a bank about to go bankrupt without protection from illegal aliens? The FDIC bankruptcy protection should not apply to this criminal abiding bank.

[Brownie74]

Fifth Third is also launching a Hispanic advertising campaign focusing on its core deposit products including Totally Free Checking....

I don't get totally free checking. Why should they?

Oh, I forgot - I'm just a legal American citizen.

[The Scorpion King]

This will be a BIG help to the Terrorists in financing their next wave of attacks!

[Salman]

Nothing about them being illegal aliens, though no doubt some of them are.
Nothing wrong really about foreigners having bank accounts in the USA.
Why not? For one thing, it means they'll be taxed.

[GRRRRR]

Nope. ILL-EAGLE---Es la ley!

Donde esta las chicas?

Senor GRRRRRRollin~

[GRRRRR]

Bumpus Maximums Cincy!

[fivecatsandadog]

So illegal aliens shouldn't be able to have bank accounts?

Not in the USA.... not until they're here with bonafide, valid, undisputed papers.

[jimtorr]

What the poodle is a fifth-third? is there a one thru fourth-third bank?

[fivecatsandadog]

5/3 Bank can't even process a mortgage payment without ^&$&^$*& it up. Takes them 2 weeks to post the payment to an account!

[Brownie74]

The action makes Fifth Third Bank, Chicago, one of the first banks in the nation to extend banking privileges to undocumented immigrants.

What part of undocumented immigrants don't you understand?

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm sure Sabertooth will probably check in on this thread! :O)

[Trust but Verify]

I don't get totally free checking. Why should they?

Wahh! Wahh! If you don't get totally free checking, go look in the mirror. That's where you'll see the person who's responsible for you not having it. Quit whining and DO something about it!

[Dialup Llama]

I dont know how this step will help illegals. In order to open a bank account you must have either 1) a soc security number or 2) an IRS issued tax ID number. You can no longer put in a blank for the SSN or TID number the way you may have in the past. Foriegn people certainly can an do open bank accounts using method 2.

The bank's policy regarding the consular ID is pure pandering because it does not alter the IRS rules which would make fairly difficult for such a person to have a bank account.

[Publius6961]

So illegal aliens shouldn't be able to have bank accounts?

In my opinion, no.
To me illegal means not legal. It is identical to a bank knowingly opening a drug dealer's or a launderer's account. It is prosecutable.
But never mind that. This story is a non issue.

I opened a checking account at Wells Fargo Bank and somehow it got linked with the account of an illegal alien who has had the account since 1996.
When I accessed my new account over the net there it was, accessible to me.
This individual does not have a social security number OR a driver's license.
The link has still not been completely eliminated after 3 visits to my local bank branch and indeed, his account statements have begun arriving at my address 100 miles away from when this alien lives.

News? I don't think so.

[Brownie74]

Finally, this makes it easier for the INS to track them, and for the IRS to seize assets if they don't pay their taxes.

The INS couldn't track an elephant in 6 foot of snow. The INS could care less about tracking these people and seizing their assets. If they did care, they could arrest and deport these people by the hundreds of thousands every day without bank records.

All this does is make it easy for the people to send their estimated 9 billion dollars a year back to Mexico.