ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Illegals Caught in Phony ID Scam

By Mike Blair
May 28, 2005
American Free Press

A new scam using stolen identity has been hatched by illegal Mexican aliens and is bilking Americans of tens of million of dollars through their banks. Its leadership, may be located in Mexico and could have links with Mexican government officials. The scam is being operated from California and has cells in several states.

A source told American Free Press that the illegal aliens could also be associated with Mexican drug cartels.

The organization has cells in at least seven states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington — and is estimated to have bilked banks out of at least $50 million.

The gangs target smaller banks, which have less sophisticated means to identify fake identity cards, which the illegals are making with camera cell phones.

GREEN CARD
Federal officials have shut down one cell in Virginia and have indicted nine illegal aliens from Mexico and two other Mexicans who either had “green card” immigrant status or were possibly in America on work visas.

Dubbed “Operation Snapshot,” an investigation by federal officials in western Virginia has resulted in the indictment in Roanoke of 11 Mexicans. Ten of the Mexicans are in custody. The leader of the cell, Julian Tovar Pina, currently in custody, is a 30-year-old Mexican illegal. His brother, Anthony Tovar Pina, remains at large.

The Mexicans indicted in Roanoke initiated their scam by allegedly stealing payroll checks from Scott-Gallagher Inc., a construction company in Botetourt County in western Virginia.

Numerous construction companies employ Mexican laborers without much attention given to their status. One firm in central Virginia involved in highway construction employs only Mexican laborers.

The gang produced fake photo IDs for the persons to whom the checks were intended in amounts ranging from $900 to $1,000 and went to several branches of the Bank of Botetourt in Roanoke and Botetourt County on March 4, where the checks were then cashed.

The gang members, who had bilked the Virginia banks out of more than $40,000, approached the financial institutions again on March 7, but 10 of the 11 were arrested by Botetourt County sheriff’s deputies.

About 30 percent of criminals incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons are illegals. Mexican drug cartels have become a major source of crime and illegal drugs in the United States.

A total of 1.7 million cases of identity theft were reported in the United States last year.

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Editor's comment: This shows the extent to which illegal immigration is working against the stability of the United States. Although we are opposed to the present banking and monetary system, we cannot help but condemn this blatantly criminal activity which is a systemic problem of the fraudulent nature of the Federal Reserve System.

These criminal gangs come in and set up their operations mixed in among the others who would be honest migrant workers and others looking for a better life. This is still no excuse for the uncontrolled illegal invasion that our traitorous leaders and government officials have allowed to flourish.

The problems associated with the porous borders have been covered elsewhere in detail and we shall not do double duty here.

However, it is with due diligence that these criminal acts be brought into the spotlight so that pressure may be brought to bear on the corrupt Congress and an irresponsible President to shut off the flow and seal the borders with American troops rather than send them around the world pursuing the imperial adventures of the neocons and the plutocractic elite.

The issue is, and always has been, America for Americans, first, foremost and always.

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