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Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals
By: Sara A. Carter
National Security Correspondent
June 3, 2010
The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island -- a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking -- to provide the island's illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of
Originally posted by DerbyCityLights
They have since had to move the office into a Catholic Church due to some issues with the Mexican Government setting up shop in public domain.
www.washingtonexaminer.com...
Originally posted by guohua
Originally posted by DerbyCityLights
They have since had to move the office into a Catholic Church due to some issues with the Mexican Government setting up shop in public domain.
www.washingtonexaminer.com...
Thanks, I didn't know. I was reading the about it on Drudge and Savage, I just couldn't believe it.
Originally posted by guohua
reply to post by DerbyCityLights
Let me guess, A Catholic Church?
The Church needs to stay at of Politics
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, is heading to the island by helicopter today to confront the officials.
“If the Catholic Church insists on preventing immigration law from being enforced, then they should step up and pay the bill. Let the Catholic Church open up its schools for free and use their vast resources to pay for the benefits of illegals if they feel it’s such a moral issue,” Rep. Rohrabacher told The Examiner. “I don’t exactly see Cardinal Mahoney announcing the sale of catholic church property to pay the bills for illegal immigration. This holier than thou hypocrisy has got to stop."
The matricula card is not a secure document (the Matricula Cards on this page are of American citizens). Mexico does not authenticate documents used to obtain the ID against computerized data files in Mexico. No major bank in Mexico accepts the card to open an account and the cards are recognized as IDs in only 10 of Mexico's 32 states and districts.
Now, Guatemala, Honduras, Poland, Peru and El Salvador, aware of Mexico's success, have begun or are considering issuing cards of their own.
......since it is a violation of Federal law to accept the card......
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher flew by helicopter to Santa Catalina Island at dawn Thursday to personally condemn an effort by the Mexican Consulate to offer identification cards to local undocumented workers.
But all that changed Wednesday when Rohrabacher's office informed the restaurant's owner, Santa Catalina Island Co., that State Department approval might be necessary for any service to be provided by a foreign government on its property.
As a result, the company told the consul's office that it could no longer operate out of the country club. The consul's team of a dozen specialists moved a few blocks away to a meeting room at St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church.
Rohrabacher responded: "I understand that. But there is a problem in our country; there are too many illegals here."
No sooner had the congressman left town shortly before noon than local political, business and religious leaders began to distance themselves from the Mexican consul's program.
"I was horrified to find out that the Mexican government was going into an area in my district to set up an operation that would make it easier for illegal immigrants to come here and stay," said Rohrabacher, a Republican who represents the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Catalina and parts of Orange County. "It's about time we put an end to this."
Rohrabacher said the Mexican government is facilitating illegal immigration by making it easier for these people to get government services and jobs.
"We shouldn't be tolerating this by a foreign government," he said.