"House panel blocks rule that lets banks take Mexican IDs"

From Knight-Ridder:

Banks would no longer be able to accept a Mexican identification card popular with illegal immigrants under a measure approved Thursday by a House subcommittee.

The House appropriations subcommittee that funds the Treasury Department, on a 9-7 party-line vote, blocked a Treasury rule that permits banks to accept the matricula consular as a valid ID document.

The measure's sponsor, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said use of a foreign ID card viewed as insecure by the FBI and Homeland Security Department presents a national security threat...

...immigrant advocacy groups and bank trade groups vowed to mount a vigorous lobbying effort to derail the measure in full committee next week..

I say we hand them a defeat. Here's the full committee and here's Chairman C.W. Bill Young's page.