It’s estimated that over 350 U.S. financial institutions are permitting the use of Mexican ID cards in place of passports, U.S. drivers licenses and other forms of U.S. government identification for individuals to open banking accounts. It is, generally, understood that illegal aliens are using these Mexican IDs to obtain these accounts from which they can wire money back to Mexico and these unscrupulous institutions are realizing the wire transfer fees on these exchanges as a profit center worthy, in their minds, despite the 2003 FBI testimony before Congress that identified these cards as being used in identity fraud and terrorist activities.
Chevy Chase Bank (Arlington, VA) has gone as far as to initiate a program which encourages acceptance of these foreign IDs called the “Hispanic Banking Initiative”. Well, one personal banker at Chevy Chase has had enough. Read the full WND story here…
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88994
