"House Backs Bush on Mexican ID Cards" (FBI calls cards a security threat)
America's amigos in the Bush administration have scored another partial victory:
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to support a Bush administration plan to allow the use of Mexican identification cards ["Matricula Consular" cards] to open U.S. bank accounts.
The House voted 222 to 177 remove language in an $89.9 billion bill funding the Transportation and Treasury Departments aimed at preventing the use of the cards. The House has yet to vote on the overall bill...
I believe the language was inserted in the bill by Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), as discussed here.
To give you a little insight into the problem:
The FBI and the Department of Justice say that the cards are not a reliable form of identification and pose "major criminal threats" and a "potential terrorist threat."
So, to summarize: the FBI and the DOJ say they pose a potential terrorist threat, but the Bush administration supports them. I guess we can see the kind of tradeoffs they consider acceptable.
You can contact your congressman here. It might be too late, but at least you can find out how they voted and let them know what you think of their actions.
(Via this)
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John S Bolton (not verified)
Tue, 09/14/2004 - 23:56
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A lot of the support for these traitorous policies comes from disinterested malice. Americans have had success in building up to a high standard of living, and this enrages the envious power-seekers who pile up in government. They go into government employment because they want power, and this means power not to get people to do what is in their actual interest, but power to damage. They want this flow of destroyers to be facilitated, in order to do damage, because that is what power means to them.