June 09, 2008

Mexico admits: Matricula Consular ID cards are for illegal aliens (Elizabeth Llorente/North Jersey Record; ACORN?)

Some years ago, the Mexican government found a new purpose for their old Matricula Consular ID card: indentification for illegal aliens. However, in past reports that I've seen they haven't explicitly admitted its real purpose, only saying that they hand out those cards to their citizens without regard to their immigration status.

However, a consulate spokesman has now explicitly admitted what those cards are for ("Mexican consulate helps out local Mexicans" by Elizabeth Llorente, link). While the article includes quotes from an ICE spokesman, the overall tone of support for illegal activity also makes it yet another example in the long line of Hispanic reporters putting their racial interests ahead of national and journalistic interests:

Mexican consulate officials issued hundreds of passports and identification cards to Mexicans in Passaic this week, in the hope that official documents will help illegal immigrants avoid arrest and deportation.

Mexican officials said their citizens... are particularly vulnerable to harsh treatment by local and federal law enforcement authorities since they're the largest portion of the illegal population...

"Having government-issued documentation is the first line of defense in this climate," said Cesar Romero, spokesman for the consulate in Manhattan, which also serves New Jersey. "Our main mission at the consulate is to provide a safety net for our people. Since they cannot obtain U.S. documents, they turn to us for valid IDs that they can show authorities here."

In other words, they admit that they hand them out to those they know to be illegal aliens, and that the purpose of the IDs is to skirt our immigration laws.

The mobile consulate - which will be visiting other NJ cities in the near future - was apparently hosted by the local organization Casa Puebla, but the caption to the photo accompaning the article has two people "organiz[ing] all of the necessary papers prior to going to ACORN to get their passports during the "Consulate on Wheels" visit from the Mexican Consulate." Any involvement by that national organization isn't detailed in the article.

Posted to Immigration_consul at June 9, 2008 02:58 PM