Posted on 07/07/2005 1:43:32 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
Weekday mornings, area banks set up booths outside the Mexican Consulate in Oxnard, moving to the front of a line that already has formed. The banks are there to help Mexican nationals open what often is their first U.S. bank account.
With the account, not only does saving money become safer and cashing checks become easier, but electronic transfers allow immigrants to send money to Mexico faster and cheaper than other methods...
Other than households, the money sent from the United States to Mexico could be money used to pay for guides who bring Mexicans across the border, which costs about $2,000 dollars per person, or money transferred for business through personal accounts...
The Oxnard Mexican Consulate also issues a matricula consular card, an alternative form of identification for Mexican nationals. Some immigrants enter the United States with no identification, making opening a bank account impossible. With this card, a bank account may be set up and transfers easily made...
(Excerpt) Read more at venturacountystar.com ...
Is the Ventura County Star a Mexican newspaper?
Here's their publisher's contact form if you want to send them a short, polite message. Other staff contacts.
This sounds like the perfect place for Border Patrol agents to be. Oh wait, once they get past the border zone we're supposed to just leave them alone.
Awesome. Just keep luring the illegals to set up accounts and say in about 6 months or so start FREEZING ACCOUNTS ands SEIZE the assets. THAT should discourage some of this 'carpetbagging'.
Unless you KILL illegals at the border, This will never stop.
You want to stop this? Go to Brigade Quartermaster, order up a set of 5.11 streetwear duds, put them on, then go down to the Consulate with a professional-looking camera and start shooting pics. I guarantee those bank kiosks will experience a dramatic drop in business.
I want to learn how they open accounts. Whenever I open a new bank account, they require my ID and my SSN; I have to sign something certifying that I'm a legal resident and not subject to backup withholding. Foreigners can open accounts, too, but they have to show their passports and sign forms, too.
How do the illegal aliens get around these requirements?
(By the way, it's probably a waste of time to contact the Red VC Star, since they don't have any competition with a sane point of view.)
Just recently many of the banks have relaxed limits to how much can be transferred; up to a couple of thousand a day. Now I ask, what poor working peasant needs to send home $2000 per day? These policies not only facilitate illegal immigration, but also other illegal crimes.
As for the law abiding citizens, try going to the ATM and withdrawing $2000 on one visit!
I can and have done it, no problem.
ping
Even the US Post Office has been involved in this racket. They offer a remittance service to Mexicans called "Dinero Seguro".
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
The Ventura County Star is locally known as the Red Star because of its left-leaning coverage of everything.
They appear to be exempt from the laws the rest of us follow...how do they register their children for school? I used to have to show their birth certs every time....
susie
they do two things: they get a Matricula Consular from the Mexican Consulate and they apply for a Individual Tax Identification Number, which is also a nine digit number in the same format as the SSN. With these two things most banks will open a new account for them.
Don't forget immunization records.
I doubt very much that the Tax ID Number is being used, since most of the money leaving America in this way has not been taxed.
the ITIN is not being used to tax the money deposited into the account, it's being used by the banks to report any interest income on the accounts in the event the illegal decides to file a tax return
why don't they just come out and say it: transfers can be used to settle drug debts
Banks are also now giving ITIN loans:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/002912.html
"I can and have done it, no problem"
I never have less than $5,000 in my checking account and i'm limited to $200/day from the ATM. How do you withdraw more without going into the bank?
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